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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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[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 80 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Only OS that costs money. Truly a Premium experience.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 11 points 2 years ago

Microsoft is like the daddy most users need I guess.

[–] Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess MacOS costs money too since you have to buy Apple hardware to use it. It's an indirect price.

[–] Thrickles@lemm.ee 72 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wife started getting these ads as well. Each time she complains I try to hand her my Linux USB drive.

[–] GreenMario@lemm.ee 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Thorned_Rose@kbin.social 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 😂

[–] Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Mooom, why can't I play Fortnite and Valorant anymore?!"

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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 45 points 2 years ago

Go to Manage Notifications, and turn Suggestions off. Suggestions is what Microsoft calls ads.

[–] victron@lemm.ee 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Why not posting this on a windows community? Or is OP expecting those sweet linux circlejerky replies?

[–] MrLuemasG@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 43 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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!

[–] Madex@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fully committed, this year had been a massive improvement and I'd love to say I'm linux baby!

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 years ago

No, they baby, Linux baby to be specific

[–] loutr@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago

Case in point, Deathloop runs nicely on my gaming PC and Steam Deck.

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[–] djmarcone@lemm.ee 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Winprivacy.de get it, run it, disable ads and trackers.

[–] Durotar@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago
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[–] GenitalHurricane@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 25 points 2 years ago

You can turn the entire notification system off. The fucking thing is pointless anyway.

[–] demilicious@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I’m this close to swapping my gaming rig to Linux for similar reasons.

[–] Kuvwert@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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[–] 0ddysseus@infosec.pub 10 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Do it! My ryzen/nvidia 2060 rig is running Mint and everything works great through steam or lutris (a runner/installer)

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[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] UnPassive@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a work laptop We're a small company - I still feel like calling our IT terrible instead of Microsoft is misguided though

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] zoostation@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (12 children)
[–] ChickenAndRice@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Use debian for your linux servers then

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[–] zacher_glachl@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

What else did you expect from Microsoft Linux? They've been taking notes from the best for some time now.

[–] Dirk@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That’s the problem with corporate Linux.

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[–] Aux@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] olutukko@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Yes they are going to fill windows with ads as far as I've understood correctly

[–] 20gramsWrench@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

yep, iirc it started in windows 8 where they would suggest third party apps directly in your app menu back in 2013

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[–] forked_bytes@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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".

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