You can uninstall it with winget uninstall cortana, never gave me any issues, works like a charm. Removing edge will break some stuff though, you need some edge render thingie for certain programs like Weather.
Why would I pick up my phone to check the weather when I’m on my PC already?
How is Endeavor OS? I’m using kubuntu now and wanted to switch to something with a lean base. I recall there were some issues with the founder leaving the project.
I remember, back in the windows 10 days if you uninstall Cortana, Windows search (start menu search) just breaks
But I guess it makes sense now that this works because Microsoft itself is ditching Cortana for Bing AI
Edge WebView, which can be installed separately. A few third-party apps depend on it.
Linux is an option.
Didn’t work. I switched to Linux and still no option to uninstall Cortana
What you’re referring to as the answer, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
only if the question is “What can make me so angry as to throw my computer out the window”.
lol
Me: Hey linux, uninstall GCC
Linux: are you sure?
ME: sudo do it
Linux: ok
Me: hey linux, update packages
Linux: error
Me: linux reinstall GCC
Linux: error
A short adventure with a valuable lesson learned by myself.
Hell yeah. I changed my main OS to Linux mint. First time on Linux, and I love it so far.
I only use Windows for stuff that Linux cant run yet.
I keep wanting to switch, but the fact you just said you still use windows for some things is enough for me to just stick with windows, until Linux can do everything windows can then I feel like constantly switching is more hassle than whatever improvements Linux provides
I installed Mint as dual boot over a year ago and the only reason I ever booted back was one game that didn’t run quite well enough. Of course depending on your wants and needs it may vary, but you won’t know until you give it a shot.
The only thing holding me back is warzone which requires windows because of the anticheat.
All of my other games work better on a lightweight Linux install with proton compatibility than on Windows.
until Linux can do everything windows can
It already can. It can even run a huge amount of Windows-only software.
In fact, Linux can do way more than Windows can (like installing multiple desktop environments and switching between them as you like).
What specifically do you still need Windows for? It’s possible that you can get it all running under Proton.
Shut the fuck up man literally every single post about any other operating system is “SWITCH TO LINUX, YOU WON’T HAVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH LINUX!!! LOOK HOW MUCH BETTER LINUX IS!!! LINUXXXXXXXX!!!”
All it does is give all the circle jerkers a reason to spam comments and not listen to anybody else’s opinions besides their own and it does absolutely nothing helpful for the post
User: “Hey Linux, I want to remove the / directory.”
Linux: “Go ahead, just remember to use sudo.”
Need -no-preserve-root :(. They made Linux way too child friendly imo. It messes with my workflow. Now my old scripts don’t work anymore T_T
Doesn’t uninstalling edge end with a broken taskbar? Or am I remembering wrongly
Sounds about right, the start bar is tied in to Bing search. Uninstalling IE would cause all sorts of issues back in the day.
Edgecore sounds like a really exciting but actually bland genre of music.
Edge is completely safe to remove in my testing, at least if removed through the Chris Titus Utility.
So his Meme is correct the system will break if you force it to uninstall something?
There’s a “Getting Started” app built in to win11 that is both completely useless and totally unremovable by any method without breaking the OS.
Its more of the dependency chain. I wouldn’t consider tying your taskbar, web browser, and other microservices together like that a good thing in any ecosystem. Its not really the fact that removing system files breaks your system. Its that the taskbar and web browser should not be considered Core. People want to choose and not have their non-choice staring at them with their new gurl from the sidelines.
Most things are probably fine, though Windows updates might do something funky or just put it back from where you threw out that trash.
But Edge is a different story. Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided to make Edge, their web browser, essential for Windows Explorer, their file manager and desktop among other things, to function properly.
So if you get rid of Edge, things can get kinda fucky. I haven’t looked into if someone has made a workaround, I know that there are modified “debloated” Windows installs that do some heavy duty mucking about in there, but I don’t know if anyone’s figure out how to give Edge the ax without making your desktop freak out.
