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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I think it’s time someone created a /c/fuckwindows or something because this community basically shits Windows every day. (Not that I don’t appreciate it, but I think that should be a better place for it).
I agree
Same thing with /c/Firefox and Chrome.
Windows Shitpost Wednesday and removals every other day of the week.
Mods need to get on this.
Only OS that costs money. Truly a Premium experience.
Wife started getting these ads as well. Each time she complains I try to hand her my Linux USB drive.
“use my power I beg you!”
Everytime you see an ad for a game, you should ask yourself: “does this run on Linux?” Majority of the time and the answer is yes. Just saying!
Fully committed, this year had been a massive improvement and I’d love to say I’m linux baby!
Woah, you are the Linux?
What about Tarkov?
Dunno I play good games
Case in point, Deathloop runs nicely on my gaming PC and Steam Deck.
Why not posting this on a windows community? Or is OP expecting those sweet linux circlejerky replies?
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I only see this community when I’m browsing all and it feels like a good chunk of these posts aren’t actually about Linux - they’re about how Windows is bad
“Check out this thing I had to go out of my way to find”
I HAVE to use Windows (I asked them to let me install Arch on my own machine and the security analysts said no, can you believe it? Don’t they know how tech savvy I am?!?)
What gave it away? Lol
It was literally a notification; made a sound and everything. Didn’t go out of my way to see it. I’m not used to ads in my operating system so it was jarring. Surprised people accept it as normal
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 use windows 11 pro, and I don’t see any of these ads anywhere ever. Is that something the home versions only do? Did I turn off some setting proactively at setup that prevents the ads?
Winprivacy.de get it, run it, disable ads and trackers.
winprivacy.de truly rocks.
Nice, never heard of it…
I’m this close to swapping my gaming rig to Linux for similar reasons.
Nobara
Can’t up vote this enough, Nobara is great for gaming.
+1
Had very few issues on it, and most was just me never having attempted a Linux gaming build.
Do it
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.
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.
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
Yeah there are ways to turn that off. Additionally business should be using Enterprise edition which doesn’t have the telemetry or that unneeded bloat. You have an incompetent IT department.
I mean, I agree, but the problem isn’t just that I see this at work. I shouldn’t have to see it on a paid operating system. This is a normal user experience on Windows. Ads everywhere is annoying. I understand people can be proactive to disable this stuff, but I think it’s crumby of Microsoft to do
What else did you expect from Microsoft Linux? They’ve been taking notes from the best for some time now.
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!
That’s the problem with corporate Linux.
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That link isn’t working for me. What is it?
An ad that appears in the console when you log into ubuntu server
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)
There are ads in Windows?
Yes they are going to fill windows with ads as far as I’ve understood correctly
yep, iirc it started in windows 8 where they would suggest third party apps directly in your app menu back in 2013
I use Windows exclusively and have never seen a single ad.
It looks like ads from the Xbox app (could be wrong)
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I got a notification advertising Minecraft the other day. I’m positive I have all the settings about suggested content turned off. At least you can disable notifications per app, this one was from “Suggested”.
Same here, it was all supposed to be off. First thing I do everytime i have to deal with Windows.
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!”
