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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Only OS that costs money. Truly a Premium experience.
Microsoft is like the daddy most users need I guess.
I guess MacOS costs money too since you have to buy Apple hardware to use it. It's an indirect price.
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!"
That quote is just so good, I need to use it more often
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 😂
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Go to Manage Notifications, and turn Suggestions off. Suggestions is what Microsoft calls ads.
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
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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!
Fully committed, this year had been a massive improvement and I'd love to say I'm linux baby!
Woah, you are the Linux?
No, they baby, Linux baby to be specific
Case in point, Deathloop runs nicely on my gaming PC and Steam Deck.
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You can turn the entire notification system off. The fucking thing is pointless anyway.
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
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.
I’m this close to swapping my gaming rig to Linux for similar reasons.
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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I use windows 11 pro, and I don't see any of these ads anywhere ever. Is that something the home versions only do? Did I turn off some setting proactively at setup that prevents the ads?
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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.
It's a work laptop We're a small company - I still feel like calling our IT terrible instead of Microsoft is misguided though
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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One of the reasons you shouldn't be using Ubuntu. Not one of the reasons you shouldn't be using Linux.
What else did you expect from Microsoft Linux? They've been taking notes from the best for some time now.
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There are ads in Windows?
Yes they are going to fill windows with ads as far as I've understood correctly
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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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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