Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage

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• stardustsystem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What kind of therapy do I go to if I’m in an abusive relationship with my Operating System?

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  • Coasting0942@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There are Ubuntu versions that look very similar to the Microsoft

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    • stardustsystem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Linux user for a long time, actually. I like Q4OS for myself, it’s also Debian based and it puts very little in front of the user to start so I can customize a little more

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  • shrugal@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s a group therapy called !linux@lemmy.ml

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    • isles@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My last Linux dual-boot install was trying to apply Conversion Therapy to me and corrupted my windows boot records. Finally got it resolved, but what a nuisance.

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  • Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If you don’t want to think about your computer and just want a tool to use there is Aurora. It’s a variant of fedora but it uses an atomic

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    • djsaskdja@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why would anyone use this over Silverblue?

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  • Beaver@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I heard they have specialized clinics in Antarctica for that situation.

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  • applepie@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Self-harm?

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    • stardustsystem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s not a funny joke

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• kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ethically, if not legally, this is terrible, as are all other steps Microsoft has taken to force ads onto your computer.

  Seriously, think about it. You own the hardware, right? And the OS is present to run the hardware, right? To do that, it needs to be able to perform various tasks without your specific approval, and that’s fine, but using your bandwidth to download advertisements in the background, then using your computing cycles to force them in front of your eyes regardless of what you’re using the computer for, is awfully questionable. I would go so far as to say it’s a form of theft.

  And no, ads on websites aren’t comparable. You, the user, are actively opting to view a web page that carries ads. You are choosing to grant them access to your eyeballs and the resources used by your browser. But nobody is actively seeking to view ads through their operating systems, and they don’t get anything in return (such as the content you went to that website for).

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  • stardustsystem@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You want to advertise to me in the OS? Don’t charge me $200 for the OS then!!

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    • accideath@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The funny thing is, there isn’t even really a free OS with ads. At least none that I know of. Linux is open source and thus usually non commercial. Worst case you get a “please donate” the first time you log in. macOS is technically free (although you kinda subsidize it through the hardware, I suppose) and it doesn’t have ads and even chrome OS is ad free afaik. It’s really only Windows and some Android flavours, usually those running on very cheap chinese devices. And Samsung of course.

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    • lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is what finally got me to switch to Linux years ago. Back when Virtual machines were relatively new I was messing around with them and hated having to scrounge for windows licenses to use in the VM’s. (Back then you had to enter the CD Key to begin installing the OS, they didn’t have trial periods, or ‘activate later’ options) started using Linux in VM’s to try it out, and boom 15 years later, I’m never going back.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What’s interesting is that they haven’t been enforcing antipiracy all that heavily.

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can install any Linux distro other than Ubuntu if you don’t want ads in your operating system.

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    • kescusay@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wasn’t gonna say it, but yeah… I’ve been using Linux exclusively on my personal systems for more than 10 years. Every time I have to use Windows, it’s almost physically painful. How the hell do people put up with that crap?

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll just leave this here.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They wouldn’t need to show ads if everyone just used Edge, bought Office365 and played Xbox games.

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  • RiQuY@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    People is actively opting to use a shitty OS like Windows. The easiest solution is using another OS.

    I hate saying this but at this point MacOS is even better in that regard, but my preferred choice is GNU/Linux.

    Obviously, in your personal computer you have the freedom to choose an OS that fits your needs, in a enterprise/work enviroment this is harder because the company using Windows is the one who should consider changing the OS to avoid this shit, if possible.

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Most people are actually passively opting for Windows.

      Computers just come with it, or if somebody install it for them, Windows is the default expectation.

      MacOS comes with very expensive Apple computers, and most people just choose Windows. The idea of Linux either never crosses their mind, they may not be aware of its existence, or think it’s some geeky server thing.

      Most people opting for Windows, thereby, don’t make a rational decision between Windows, Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD or whatever. For them, Windows is just how computer works.

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• deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Embrace, extend, extinguish, enshittify.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly there isn’t even a extinguish

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    • deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Just pointing out the extra “E” Microsoft has been practicing lately.

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• qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m still on Win10, but the second I see yet another ad on my pro license, I’m wiping the drive. As long as I have some kind of choice, I will not run hostile operating systems on my own hardware.

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  • applepie@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Mint and popos will do the trick for most of the normie gamer needs fyi

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    • ceiphas@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      popos

      i just realized that PopOS means butts in german…

      i needed it in lowercase to see it, and i’m german…

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    • kennebel@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Over the last few months I’ve tried half a dozen Linux distros. PopOS has been the best so far for me. Plays the games, didn’t have to force the audio to work, and regular apps open way faster than even other Linux options, it is astonishing. I have used Linux on servers for ~30 years, and this is the first time I’ve been really comfortable on the desktop side.

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    • qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s been a bit for me, but I used to run either Gentoo or Arch.

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    • itwasawednesday@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Asking for the sake of my son, does Fortnite work?

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  • mister_monster@monero.town ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You’re going to. Why not face reality right now.

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• ppb1701@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could these please stop dropping more ads on the ui🙄. That and forced copilot make loath using windows.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You turn some of them off with group policy

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• archchan@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  CorpOS

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• fluxc0@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  makes me more and more happy i switched to linux. FUCK. WINDOWS.

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• tubbadu@lemmy.kde.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Look at the corner between the two “paragraphs”… WHY? Please Microsoft align them properly

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  • MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They are busy at ads rather than improving anything.

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• Defaced@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I actually feel bad for people on windows 11. People, please just switch to Linux already. There just isn’t any real reason to stay on it anymore, and if you do you’ve got some ridiculous bullshit niche setup that 0.1% of people use. And for people on Nvidia just grab that Nvidia pop_os ISO for that idiot proof setup, seriously, there are no more excuses and it’s really not any more difficult to use than Windows. Don’t listen to people saying you have to open a terminal to do anything either, that’s a straight up fucking lie, and if you really have to, then copy/paste is all you need to know.

  If you have to use rtx and dlss to justify your overpriced graphics card, then there’s AMD fsr that can be forced on damn near any game you want, it’s not as good but it gets the job done, as for Ray tracing, come on…be real with yourself for 5 minutes, what game other than control has use Ray tracing in any meaningful way other than to look pretty?

  Windows is just not worth the hassle anymore, wake the fuck up people.

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  • pureness@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    My only concern is league of legends. is it possible to run from neobara in vm? worst case I lose league. actually that sounds like the best case

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    • Defaced@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Don’t play league, it’s filled with psychological bullshit tricks to get you to keep playing. If you have to play a moba play dota 2, it’s just a better game.

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  • Mkengine@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    DLSS is AI-based and FSR is not, right? I always wanted to know how is FSR not inferior when Nvidia is the leading AI chip company, so shouldn’t that give them the edge?

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  • pm_me_your_titties@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate what Windows has become as well, but I primarily play COD with my friends and I don’t see them moving to another game for my hatred of Windows.

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    • Defaced@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Get an Xbox then and use m/KB with crossplay. Or play better games, apex runs through proton, get them to play that instead. Anyone switching away from cod is a good deed.

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• bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t mind having ads in my face every day and being tracked constantly if it means I can play games with my friends for an hour a week.

  • Everybody, everytime someone mentions switching to Linux

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• vox@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  entire home tab is just ad space and can be disabled
  or just upgrade to enterprise, comes with no ms 365 ads and the home tab is disabled out of the box.
  you’ll get literally zero ads in built-in apps

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  • cheet@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    if you’re in the know, check out vlmcsd on github and “test” windows enterprise with KMS. It can run on everything from a pi, to docker, to openwrt. If you’re really gangster, you can set up SRV records and get auto activation on your lan

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• MHSJenkins@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Now’s a great time for us all to switch to an open source solution. I suggest Linux Mint or Ubuntu.

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• Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just signed up for AdBuddy 24/7. Might as well I guess

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• miridius@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For a community that loves Linux so much, Lemmy seems really obsessed with everything Microsoft does

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like how they boxed it

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