The message will be at the bottom of the start menu. If you are on a new install of Windows, the message instead will be Try Edge. Once you clear that message and try again, you'll get the register to vote message.
[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout_in_the_United_...
The rest of the tech industry was implicated as well, which is even less reasonable, but makes more sense in terms of attempting to drum up political support by coercion: help us, or your employees will know you're helping our opponent.
Location is set to "France", regional settings to "English (Europe)" and display language to "English (US)".
You can either go to your local town hall or do it over the internet (tick a few boxes, attach a proof of citizenship and residency in the town / district (for Paris) and they'll send you a confirmation).
Voting isn't a Constitutionally guaranteed right in the US, it's a privilege. Although the Supreme Court and various Constitutional Amendments greatly restrict the power of states to disenfranchise their citizens, states do have that power (for instance convicted felons often lose the right to vote.)
Also, voter registration laws have traditionally been an effective way of suppressing African American and immigrant voters[0] (who tend to vote Democrat) so red states tend to vigorously support such laws.
[0]https://time.com/5855885/voter-registration-history-race/
It also looks like you need to change a registry key if you want to disable it.
That said, I'm running the non-LTSB/LTSC builds of Windows but I think I've gotten all of the underdocumented group policy settings set to disable all of the unwanted Bing/ads/web integration. The only thing I'm dreading now is the next unexpected and unwanted feature-update that will trash all of my files on-disk.
I'd be fine with automatic major OS updates if Windows had its own partition or physical volume to go-crazy in while my own silo'd programs, configuration data, and personal files were on a physically separate drive with a hardware interlock to prevent the OS from writing to it unless I gave it permission.
(Yes, I lost 2 years worth of files in the October 2018 Windows feature update because I was using folder redirection)
People experience the world differently than you do. People have different priorities and needs and expectations than you do. And none of that makes them wrong or inferior or ignorant or foolish or anything to be confused by.
OSX machines are prohibitively expensive for most, so Windows is the only reasonable option.
Is this a Mac vs Windows thing?
I feel like OP was implying people should use Linux.
The difference is subtle and depends on the country, state/province, and even down to the local municipality. I'd have not idea how to correctly title this for, say, South Sudan or East Timor.
It's a non-trivial investment to install linux or to look for a PC coming with it preinstalled, especially if it's something they don't particularly care about (since they mostly use a browser).
I've yet to see a single source that can show any significant effect of "voter suppression". One guy in 1836 doesn't count. If you truly think that minorities in America can't figure out how to register, than I would suggest that you check your patronizingly racist view of minorities.
The argument about linking Republican registration policies to Jim Crow etc. is worthless, because those were all Democratic laws that were opposed by Republicans. Stop blaming Republicans for the Democratic Party's legacy of populist racial identity politics.
I know it's not perfect yet, but the better and better it gets, the fewer reasons Microsoft is giving people to stick with Windows. I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft stopped selling the local version in a few years.
Use a different browser, and Apple forces it to use Safari to render, disabling it from doing its own blocking, bans it from having add-ons, and doesn't give it that 'content blocking'.
Most ML is done on Linux so it better well have GPU support.
The part, that matters for users - GUI and gaming - barely supports what Windows did 5 years ago.
If you're using a Nvidia GPU sure, but it's still supported so I'm not sure what you were talking about in your original comment? Windows Nvidia drivers are also proprietary.
>GUI and gaming - barely supports what Windows did 5 years ago.
You can't be serious? Linux has had workspaces for forever, a feature that Windows finally enacted in Windows 10. Native tiling window manager support is nonexistent in Windows.
The more recent adoption of things like WSL and Windows Package Manager are just a few of the ways Windows trails behind Linux innovations that have existed for years.
The GUI experience in Linux is infinitely more customizable and frankly better than any experience I've had on Windows. Far less bloated and more open in it's overall design.
In terms of gaming I haven't had a snag in forever since Wine or Lutris can do pretty much everything I need.
If you're tech illiterate I can see why someone would think that Windows was superior in terms of innovation, otherwise its pretty clear that Linux has beat out Windows in most interactive user experiences over the past few years.
If you're a developer (which most users of HN are which was what my initial comment was based on) there's virtually no reason to use Windows over Linux.
Not sure how life is on KDE though.
As for games, GTA V support only came in 2019. Still no Skyrim VR.
I am a developer, but I do .NET, and Rider has not yet caught up to VS for debugging.
