Have to use Windows for work (I’ve asked), the ads have been getting worse and worse on my work laptop. Today got a game ad notification… That’s clearly too far, right? Like I have to clear notifications, so I have to see it
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Why not posting this on a windows community? Or is OP expecting those sweet linux circlejerky replies?
OP is actually an Xbox employee doing some very intense guerilla marketing.
Now everyone here knows that Deathloop is out and available on the Xbox app.
Surprised I’ve not seen anyone mention shutup10. Been using it on all new installs for me and family since migrating from 7 to 10 Turn off anything you want, including all that bullshit and the data mining etc. https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
No one has mentioned it because they’re dealing with a laptop from work they have no say over
But yes, for everyone on personal devices, it seems to be pretty nice. I’ve been using privacy.sexy for a while, but it can’t seem to do much without breaking things.
I’m this close to swapping my gaming rig to Linux for similar reasons.
Do it! My ryzen/nvidia 2060 rig is running Mint and everything works great through steam or lutris (a runner/installer)
What’s stopping you? Just out of curiosity.
The only reason I have a Windows PC is because GeForce Now doesn’t have a 4K client in anything but Windows.
Do it. Gaming was the only reason preventing me from switching to the Linux side, until Itried and found out that literally every one of my games work on Linux, sometimes even better than on windows.
So is that a personal laptop your using for work or a work laptop? Because if it’s the latter, they’re doing a terrible job setting policies and turning crap off with either GPO or some DSC system.
It’s a work laptop We’re a small company - I still feel like calling our IT terrible instead of Microsoft is misguided though
Use debian for your linux servers then
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Debian is perfectly fine. At one point it ran something like 50~60% of all web servers. And they’ll never pull the rug from under your feet!
What else did you expect from Microsoft Linux? They’ve been taking notes from the best for some time now.
That’s the problem with corporate Linux.
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Is that real? I’ve seen the Ubuntu pro ad in the terminal, but never anything like this. (Not saying the Ubuntu pro ad is ok. I need to migrate my server)
That link isn’t working for me. What is it?
An ad that appears in the console when you log into ubuntu server
There are ads in Windows?
Yes they are going to fill windows with ads as far as I’ve understood correctly
It looks like ads from the Xbox app (could be wrong)
Go to Manage Notifications, and turn Suggestions off. Suggestions is what Microsoft calls ads.
Only OS that costs money. Truly a Premium experience.
I guess MacOS costs money too since you have to buy Apple hardware to use it. It’s an indirect price.
Is this an American thing? Save for the awful downgraded solitaire with micro transactions I’ve never had any ads on Windows.
That’s because your it department either sucks or just doesn’t have time to fix this. Windows can be made to be great for work environments, as evidenced by 80% of all workers who use a computer using a windows computer
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And that’s great, the extreme minority of the human workforce that is doing programming is free to use Linux if they want. That doesn’t change the fact that windows is the best option for the majority of the worlds workers so long as an it department makes half a dozen settings changes via group policy.
Karen in accounting doesn’t need a customizable kernel or a terminal that allows unfettered control of the OS, she just needs her excel macros and pivot tables to function so she do brain dead spreadsheets 9 hours a day.
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Lol I had to install AutoHotKey just to be able to do some basic keymapping on Windows. “Can be made good” is so different than “is good”
But yes our IT team is just one dude with a degree in biology
M$: “Windows is the best OS for gaming!!!”
Ok, fine. From now on ONLY my gaming PC will run windows, and my gaming PC is GeForce Now.
M$: “No! Not like that!”
Dont forget to install candy crush when it prompts you to do so.
Never had anything like that on either my personal (two of them) or work W11 installs, nor on my girlfriend’s personal or work installs, so I don’t know where the complains about adverts come from, I’ve never seen them 🤷
Well, you’ve seen it now
Well that person need to get their fingers out of their ass and stop farming karma, because clearly if I don’t see them without any effort then I don’t know how they manage to run Linux instead of Windows 'cuz that sure does require effort!
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Chris Titus tools and Ameliorated.io playbooks are way better.
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There is nothing wrong in using and supporting trusted peoples’ work, even if they make closed source wrappers. Ameliorated project and Titus’ scripts are open source. Titus’ EXE GUI wrapper is closed and paywalled, he even livestreams his code and git repo work on Twitch/YouTube.
These people are not money grubber corporations stealing even one bit of data.
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The world is not as black and white, and there is value and space for closed source software. The world runs on it. Advocating for FOSS does not mean it is intelligent to become a cultist.
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That is false. The world runs on both open and closed source code. Active Directory for example is well known, and is supported by Ubuntu and other corporate distros. MS Office, Photoshop, CorelDraw and numerous video/audio editors are just a few examples.
