Comment on Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

JCreazy@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I made the swap after they forced Windows 7 update behavior to change. You used to be able to download updates but you got to choose when to install them. Then they changed it to either they’re on and fully automatic, or fully off.

  At the time, I was running a computer repair company, and my work computer running Win7 was running a data recovery on an accidentally formatted drive for almost two days. After I had left and the program finished, Windows was all “Oh, the computer is idle now. Let me give you a 15 minute warning that I’m going to install updates and reboot if you don’t cancel”.

  After the second time, I formatted my work computer. Shortly after, I did the same to my gaming PC. Haven’t looked back once.

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  • JCreazy@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I love to hear it. Linux has done pretty much everything I’ve needed it to to and it’s great to see a lot of programs are available for Linux natively.

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    • BluescreenOfDeath@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think my favorite part of swapping has been forgetting how Windows does things. I’m so embedded in Linux and how it works every day that I don’t remember where to go for certain things in Windows without having to search.

      I remember some power user shortcuts like run prompt shortcuts (appwiz.cpl or control userpasswords2) but I used to be able to walk people through how to get certain pages in the Windows UI, and I couldn’t do it today.

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