Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10

circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s kinda like AAA game companies waiting for a couple of weeks after a title’s release (and all the reviews are done) before rolling out the micro-transaction market (and the corresponding game-balance adjustments).

  Funny how when Windows XP had dial-in activation we warned that this would drift over to games if we tolerated it, and then it did.

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  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    100%. Every time consumers tolerate something, it will get worse. On the other hand, it seems so simple to tell people “just don’t buy a product that does X”, but in practice, it’s almost impossible to get people to stop giving these companies money.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      but in practice, it’s almost impossible to get people to stop giving these companies money.

      This is why consumer-protection regulations are necessary.

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    • RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, hardly any consumer actively buys Windows since it comes pre-installed on most PCs.

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    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People will yell, gnash their teeth, and greivously complain about terrible things and issues.

      but they, for the overwhelming majority of them, will refuse to ever give up their precious shiny and make a change, and will eagerly throw out money at every opportunity for it.

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• DScratch@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I jumped ship to PopOS a few months back.

  There are some issues, like Bluetooth not starting without some terminal commands, I think I have to wipe or otherwise mess around with my 1TB NTFS storage drive to mount it and stuff like that.

  But all the games I’ve tried to play work fine.

  CPU: 3700x GPU: 4090

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  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    PopOS is pretty great. There is a polish to it that I haven’t seen in some other distros. Which is why it remains on my main gaming rig even though I have considered distro hopping for a while now.

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  • bufalo1973@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t you make an script and make it autoload on start?

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