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How to uninstall Store apps?
| It's rather simple. Install an OS which respects your freedoms.
| Why in blazes did you install a Windows Store app in the first place?
I reckon also removing the folder manually should be good enough?
| There's a PowerShell command that does stuff with the Store cache. Fuck if I remember it though. Bing it yourself
| Easy:
sudo apt remove <package-name>
| As M$ likes it? Go to Store, find the app, there should be a "remove/uninstall" option. Any "app store" remake has it, I think.
| >>415390 it's preinstalled. you reckon?
>>415453 tried, folders are still sticking around in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps though
| >>415369 dude this is /tech/ as in all tech, ask dangeru.us to make /freedombeard/ or /rmswannabe/ if you want
| >>415369 you mean the one that respects your freedom until you said something politically incorrect?
| >>415350
Install 10 Enterprise LTSB/LTSC. No store, no Cortana, no, feature "updates", no bullshit.
| >>415576 dude have you seriously done this? Don't you need a volume licensing agreement or something?
| Do you know malwarebytes?
| >>415648
https://gitlab.com/s1ave77/SVF.ISO.CONVERTER
downloads evaluation copy ISOs straight from MS servers and converts them to regular install ISOs.
| >>415350 winaero tweaker, it has an option to forbid the store to suddenly download apps, also it has tons of usefull features so i recommend
| If you are too dumb to find the files use IOBit Unistaller
| >>415472
Windows doesn't belong to /tech/ as long it isn't about reverse engineering stuff. Everything else belongs to Microsoft Service, a windows user board or to a marketing board (because windows is about marketing in the first place)
| Well, talking about Windows is /tech/. Like, talking about Powershell or why NTFS should be replaced with something better.
But solving other people's problems is a hassle. We do not know solutions to problems Windows creates on its user. If Windows preinstalls crap on your PC, that's their right. Uninstalling it by force is ultimately breaking ToS. The only people who would offer this to you would probably also force some malware.
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| Bottom line is: finding a loophole in Windows system that suits your needs is against the law. Telling you to install gentoo is a meme, but also a completely legal and ultimately a working solution (a hefty and probably needless, but still legal).
Microsoft and Apple provide you their services and you have to obey. Why do you scold US for telling you what rules THEY force?
| >>416107
>finding a loophole in Windows is against the law
That's bullshit. And even if it is, since when does /tech/ care about The Fine Print of the Law? Messing about with a computer you already own is acceptable.
Instead of finding excuses to harass Windows user again you can just, idk, not reply??
| >>416118
>could you please not reply to the question that OP asked?
>also implying /tech/ is one person
>I came to the board full of people I hate and now I am mad. How could this be happening to me?
>People on the Internet are mean to me that's bad and I will fight them!
Jesus Christ what's your damage
| Im starting to understand this board, and
the most important rule here: do not reply seriously to anything.
Here >>415729 I answered to op's questions but no one cared, instead this thread went full shitpost. And it's not even about windows or linux, if serious answers get ignored by everyone.
| This Linux circle jerk is becoming tiresome.
| >>416165
Stop it. GNU g/u/rls dont do that. Honestly, at least use your brain to make it a witty comment.
I bet you're running Arch.
>>416208
I see you are very new to the Internet.
>>416245
Yes, so go somewhere else.
| >>416245
The thing is that windows is institutionally circlejerk controlled by one company. GNU/Linux circlejerk is free, open and has respectable alternatives like openBSD or openSolaris. I don't understand how someone prefers to be locked into a proprietary system but at the same time expects free people doing service for it.
It's like if someone would ask specific questions about RedHat Enterprise issues. It's business and not /tech/.
| >>416579 then you are also free to just ignore or ask mod to ban/remove those "business" questions. Stop being so nosey. /tech/ has been like this for a while, if you want linux only discussions, there's linux forums/subreddit/irc.
| Take ownership of folder, try to delete and fail, give yourself rwx permission, delete folder, realise you didn't give recursive perms, fix that & delete again because windows perms are a joke
This is how I removed stuff but it broke the windows store calculator so not sure it's the best idea
| >>416208 OP here sorry about not responding earlier. Winaero tweaker seems interesting, though would i be correct in assuming it's proprietary? Not that i'm complaining
captcha: non iraqi tromp
captcha: cunt shush avert
Wtf!?
| >>416595
>if you want linux only discussions, there's linux forums/subreddit/irc.
You don't understand. It's not about Windows vs. GNU/Linux. Those terms don't even belong to the same category as one of it is a full desktop OS and the other one an OS kernel (with some command line tools). It's about people who decide to use a closed system expecting other people to do service for it for free (which ended up advertizing third party software here)
| >>416595
>then you are also free to just ignore
If at least the thread title would give some warning/hint like *windos issue*
Because in some Desktop OS Distros and Apple there also are "Store Apps" (which in the case of the free distros are basically packages from a couple of different package managers)
@topic:
Completely uninstall stuff in Windows was always a problem. If you're concerned about some leftover files, than don't even start to think about the registry.
| >>415369 what if I want to actually play games from this era tho? Or if I wanna do literally anything else than coding?
| >>417039 lots of games have Linux support, and steam has wine built in now so you can run most games just as easily as on Windows
| >>417039 anything else other than coding?
Like what, web browsing? Firefox comes preinstalled on most distros you can install chromium/chrome pretty easily if you want, word processing libre office works just fine for me like what are you doing that Linux can't exactly
| >>417057
What can Linux do that windows can't? I mean I know there's alot but like stuff I care about, I don't care much for crazy customization and I have no issues with windows.
What reason would someone as casual as I have for installing Linux?
| >>417083
Technically linux has one big point where it is better than windows: lightweight, i mean you can put todays linux on a 500mhz pentium pc and it will still work fine, you'll have (libre) office, latest updates and web, and no lags, this is not a thing you can do with windows
| >>417121 have to agree with you there. Windows 10 is so bloated I cant even believe it. Fresh install of windows is like 40GB. That's after i uninstalled all the OEM crap. Then it became 50GB after Windows Update? What in the actual fuck?!
and here i thought ubuntu's 2GB fresh install was bloated
| >>417083
>What can Linux do that windows can't?
And again: GNU/Linux and Windows are no equal terms. GNU/Linux describes an OS Kernel, Windows describes a Desktop OS, including a Kernel (NT) AND other components like a GUI, File-Manager, Media Player, etc.
So what can GNU/Linux do that NT can't:
Because its (F)OSS:
- be used as basis for multiple distros
- forked and customized
- checked by multiple independent parties for backdoors/unwanted functionality
+ be efficient and stable
| >>417039
Games are software. Software needs three things to run:
- a computer (with some periphery)
- highly probably Libraries
- highly probably a compiler or a runtime-environment (which depends on the architecture of the computer)
So as long it is not about consoles but about "home computers" most of them have a similar architecture and there are many non-windows OSes available for it. So principally it shouldn't be a problem to run games in a non-windows OS, but...
| >>417039 >>417257
The issue is that microsoft managed to establish it's graphics (and audio) API "DirectX" as the de-facto standard for the Computer gaming industry (luckily there always were exceptions and they are on the rise!) So the main issue about running games in linux is that game developers use an stupid unfree API that need to be reverse engineered which in the case of MacOS and Linux "wine" does. (It works with many games and improved much over the years)
| >>417039 >>417257
So regarding my first post the issue with gaming is not an issue of linux because it's to stupid or technically not capable of running games. The problem is a a closed "library" that became standard because antitrust laws never were seriously applied against microsoft (the same is now with closed web-service plattforms like facebook & whatsapp). Because if the market really would be a "free market" (which I think is an illusion) we wouldn't have such monopolies.
| >>417292
Yeah, the thing is that the hardware architecture is that much different from a PC that you can't play PS games on PC and vice versa without
a) an emulator (ressource hungry and buggy)
Or
b) a compiled version of the game for the corresponding platform (which needs the sourcecode)
The interesting thing is that consoles show that directX is technically not necessary to program 3D games (or Sony, Nintendo and co. got a unix compatible DirectX)
| >>417254 is this guy's (>>b6c56d) idea of an answer to the question "What reason would someone as CASUAL as I have for installing Linux?" (>>417083)
emphasis mine. i'm >>989744 btw
| >>417443
>Yeah, the thing is that the hardware architecture is that much different from a PC
The ps4 uses an AMD x86_64 arch, not much different from what you'd call a PC.
>directX is technically not necessary
It's called OpenGL and it's not new at all.
| >>417912
huh, funny I didn't knew that. But what's about components like the chipset, the GPU(s) and stuff, which may need fitting drivers but also unfortunately may be proprietary?
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| Completely. Meaning they shouldn't be sticking around in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps