You can’t get rid of it, you can only hide it: Microsoft imposes controversial Windows Backup on users::Like it or not, the Windows Backup app installed in Windows 10 and Windows 11 is here to stay, with Microsoft calling it a "system component" that can't be
Yes. When I first booted up Linux Mint – the first distro I had tried since Red Hat came on a dozen or so 3.5" floppies – I couldn't believe it. I was expecting something a LOT less developed and shiny, but no – and Mint is one of the lighter ones. That's why I'm trying so many, including ones I already know I won't use as a daily driver, because they're all fully fledged, completely operable computing environments.
If it hadn't been for MS Office I'd have done this long before now, especially when I got into a mandatory-Windows-Upgrade-and-break loop a couple years ago. But I absolutely despise the newer Office versions; they seem to break more with each release. If I have to go back to older versions to run it on Linux, that's just one more favor the FOSS community will be doing for me.
Jfc, lol. At least Clippy wasn't all up in my shorts and sending the data back to the mothership. Gotta ask, though, given your age: did you ever get to use Microsoft Bob? You probably don't remember all the commercials; it was Faith Ford hawking MS Bob every time you turned on the tv. But using it, omfg. You boot up into a "living room." I shit you not. MSBob was a . . . really fucking weird five minutes, lol.