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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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That’s because your IT department hasn’t turned all that crap off with group policy.
Tthe problem is now if you have the store disabled basic shit, like the ability to open .heic files is broken or use stuff people want like sticky notes is broken.
We turn off most of what we can’t but having the store enabled causes all sorts of stuff.
Also windows 11 has ads baked in even with the store disabled. Plug in a Logitech mouse, get a pop up for their software. Open the picture viewer and get an ad to install some video editor that isn’t clear whether it’s a Ms product or not.
No to mention basic things like copy paste and edit are now weird icons because I guess they think most users are illiterate.
Most of the 11 UI changes are not for the better. Having to beta test it for work is frustrating and I run an IT shop.
Omg I loathe those icons. They are so much harder to use than words, cuz I still have to hover over them to make sure it’s the right thing.
Windows 11, in general, feels so shit after being on Ubuntu.
But I see Linux has decent touchscreen support now so as soon as I’m done at this job, that sucker is getting formatted 😈
MS goes out of their way to make shit harder than it needs to be.
For example. The store, they have a store for business where you can simply whitelist known apps buts it’s a PITA to setup AND they have been threatening to decom it for ages
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/microsoft-store-for-business-overview
Want to add safety/security features like secuirty keys. Well if you do it on a non domain joined machine you can just sign into a m365 account to enable a passkey or yuibijey as a second factor.
Want to do that in a business environment. Congrats now you have to deploy a windows CA and issue user certificates to tie to this. Even if you are signing the machine into m365 with ADAL.
They go out of their way to add complexity and failure points.
They go out of their way to add complexity and failure points.
I read a thing just the other day about essentially that. Not that specific issue, but the way their timekeeping works (by default) and is a disaster (literally) when it fails.
Christ that explains why I can’t open pictures on my work pc, thanks
To that I would argue why should IT need to waist their time turning that crap off. IT should be off by default.
You’re not wrong, but there’s a million little things you only have to do once, and this is one more.
Yeah, there are a lot of things that need doing. That’s why people have jobs in IT.
A classic parable of the broken Windows.
It shouldn’t even be part of an OS at all. I haven’t purchased Windows in probably about twenty years but if I did I would expect that if I pay for software, it’s not going to come and try to keep selling me more crap. This is just one of the reasons I use Linux.
Yea, I work in a windows shop. All this shit is turned off for any device in our domain. No BYOD either.
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!”
Keep trying! My teen recently bought his first PC. It came with Win11 and I offered to put Linux on it for him. He replied, “Nah, it’s OK, I’m not a programmer”. I was like… wait, huh? I don’t even know where he would get that idea from since the only programming I’ve ever done was websites and haven’t done that in years. Hubby doesn’t do much programming any more either. We game on our PCs… Email. Browse the interwebs. Watch videos. Discord… blah blah. Literally all the same shit our teen does and yet Linux.
Anyways, I waited until he was trapped in the car with me on a longer drive and told him all the wonderful things about Linux and sold it to him on the idea that I’ll set it up as dual boot. Give Linux a couple of weeks and if you don’t like it, you can always switch to Windows. It’s been about a month now and Windows still isn’t even installed 😂
I don’t understand how this is possible, two parents that use Linux and he thinks Windows is the way to go? Kids in school are actually idiots.
That said, I can’t get any of my family to use Linux. My friend tried for a while but asked me to put Windows 10 LTSC on it instead, because he wanted to click “Install” on Steam without worrying about messing with Proton settings and checking ProtonDB, which is reasonable. Some just don’t want to do the extra work, I hope some day that operating systems on our favorite kernel make it easy for plebians to use.
You can turn the entire notification system off. The fucking thing is pointless anyway.
On a personal rig? Heck yes.
On a work laptop? Uhhh not too sure about that… sinkholing Teams, Outlook and Devops notifications sounds like a quick way to lose track of visibilityMicrosoft know exactly what they’re doing with their spyware and adware walled garden 😔
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.
Honestly, distro really doesn’t matter much. The things you probably want to set up for gaming can be done with pretty much any distro (e.g. lower latency kernel / Liquorix / zen, driver installs (if using nvidia). Otherwise it’s just about what the distro includes by default, but rolling your own setup starting from any distro is easy and not time consuming.
Do it! My ryzen/nvidia 2060 rig is running Mint and everything works great through steam or lutris (a runner/installer)
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.
fixing windows shit is a source of revenue here, so i have a few to keep up-to-date… but most everything i use (windows or linux) has been cobbled-together from other people’s junk and the recycle bin.
As a grey beard IT guy, I approve of this practice.
I assume you’ve looked into this, but sharing it just in case.
I’d also suggest just trying to run the Windows client under Proton as an alternative.
I’ll try the client under Wine. The issue with GeForce Now under Linux, whether it is with the client or Chrome, is that resolution is capped at 1080p/60.
Do it. You won’t look back.
The reason Linux gamers have a tendency to constantly talk about Linux gaming is because it is so, so much more ready and easier than most Windows folks even realize. It constantly feels like people sticking on Windows are just missing something.
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!”
I use https://github.com/hellzerg/optimizer to remove Windows shit.
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Why not posting this on a windows community? Or is OP expecting those sweet linux circlejerky replies?
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
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.
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 there should be a better place for it).
One of the reasons you shouldn’t be using Ubuntu. Not one of the reasons you shouldn’t be using Linux.
Use debian for your linux servers then
CentOS isn’t better? Or those fedora based distros.
isn’t Redhat killing CentOS?
is there any other Fedora based distros worth mentioning? just go with plain Fedora.
No, CentOS is still alive, it just changed to rolling release, and they created Rocky to keep the old CentOS release philosophy. I still love CentOS and always use it, stream 8 has more support than stream 9.
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!
CentOS is dead.
Nope.
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=Nxn4UrwMtoQ
Official info here: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/centos-stream-building-innovative-future-enterprise-linux
“CentOS Linux has truly helped to make RHEL and the supporting communities better, and with CentOS Stream, we intend to continue this drive to make Linux innovation faster and more collaborative.”
AlmaLinux lives though…
For now.
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.
I think that is only happening on Ubuntu and there is a way to disable it very easy, anyway, it’s not the same as Windows ads that recommends you games to play while you are on a working environment… hahahaha
Jesus Fuck Ubuntu
That link isn’t working for me. What is it?
An ad that appears in the console when you log into ubuntu server
Who the hell installs Ubuntu on a server?
Who the hell advertises their MacOS software in the console of linux of any type?
I mean, you can see who.
Ubuntu is the most popular operating system across the major public cloud providers.
What the hell happened with Debian? Or is this some commercial support based scheme from Canonical?
Or is this some commercial support based scheme from Canonical?
That’s probably the big thing, companies like having enterprise support
Yeah, Ubuntu has been consistently pissing me off. Just not enough to go distro hopping yet. The worst part for me is that apt now tells you that you are missing some security updates to temp you into buying whatever their service is. Great, thanks. Maybe I’ll try KDE Neon or Pop! OS soon.
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)
Is this an American thing? Save for the awful downgraded solitaire with micro transactions I’ve never had any ads on Windows.
Solitaire with micro fucking what now?
the reason why the solitaire type games got yeeted from windows: so microsoft could release ‘app’ versions with a subscription model to remove ads.
You expect solitaire to be free?
I mean, Aisle Riot is and it’s much better than the old MS built in one…
I do, but hey, maybe that’s just me.
…
^(Get it? Solitaire?)
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”.
Dont forget to instakk candy crush when it prompts you to do so.
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
I’ve never seen these.
(but my windows install is clean and debloated to my needs so… yeah not very fair)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
That does not mean Windows is great in a work environment, it just means the IT department can’t or won’t support 2 OSs (or 3 if some of your officemates are allowed to use a Mac).
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
