Wait...this is a thing now!?! I switched to PC, so I wouldn't know...Crazy.
Click the Win11 search bar...
PC ≠ Windows
-Your local linux evangelist
How do you know someone is a Linux user?
They'll fucking tell you.
No, that's just Arch Linux users.
I use Arch, btw.
We just need the rest of the Linux gang to experience the glory of pacman+AUR, it's not our fault they don't listen.
NixOS users too
You know, that saying doesn't work nearly as well when the conversation is actually about people's experience with operating systems.
I mean, go to any tech related post and every thread quickly becomes about Linux regardless of what it was about.
almost like linux is really important and what an absurd amount of devices run, regardless of the task they ultimately perform.
Concrete and steel are really important but construction workers don't tend to rant about it off the clock.
It's because Linux is the solution to everything including issues like world hunger and war.
"pc has ads too!"
"No thats just windows, other operating systems dont do that. Linux has no ads, for example."
"AAAAAAHHHHHH LINUX USER LINUX USER!!! AAAAAHHHHH YOU SAID IT THE DEVIL WORD LINUX AAAAAAAAHHHHH MOMMY MOMMY HOLD ME AAAAAAAHHHH THEY TOLD ME THEY USE LINUX AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH OH GOD OH FUCK OH GOD"
Lol exaggerate much?
Yeah bud, thats kinda the point
"Exaggerate for comedic effect" is one of the oldest comedy standards.
Cry harder
Am I crying? No, I'm laughing at you.
Laughing, but just in the pauses between each ad you’re reading or dismissing, I imagine.
Truly the vegans of tech
That's bad, but at the very least, Windows can be customized to hide all that crap. Some options are up front, some require a lot more digging, but it can be de-advertised. Xbox is way more locked down.
The first thing I do on any new Windows install is turn web results off in search. This resolves the exact problem people are constantly complaining about.
I've never seen an ad on Windows 10 or 11. Been using 11 for over a year at this point. The start menu just has my pinned apps and recent files.
There may be regional differences, depending on how much local laws allow Microsoft to profit off of you...
Which usually means just the US and Australia.
I take it you haven't used Windows 11 yet, The start menu is basically all advertisements.
You can turn them all off though
I shouldn't have to. And if I do it should all be toggles in one place. Not scattered and hidden throughout control panel, settings, and the terminal.
You shouldn't have to, but it's also something that you only have to do once and takes less than 30 seconds.
It's a minor annoyance but people act like microsoft crashed an suv into their living room and killed their cat.
It does not take 30 seconds, it takes up to five minutes. Some of these changes also get reverted with specific updates and suddenly you're seeing ads again.
I've never had this change reverted in an update.
And it does not take 5 minutes, I can do it in less than 30 seconds. It's a single key in the registry.
Thats the tailored experiences, common users dont have the knowledge to safely edit registry keys. Thats a bullshit excuse to hide ads there and you know it. Stop defending shitty practices.
i’m not defending it. literally the first thing i said was that users shouldn’t have to do this.
and it’s not the tailored experiences, i’m talking about the “feature” that puts web results in the start menu search.
all i did was add some nuance to the conversation and you’re crucifying me over it because i didn’t pile on the circlejerk.
Yes I am. Saying "its not that bad, it only takes thirty seconds" is literally defending shoving ads down our throats and making them hard to remove. That way of thinking deserves to be crucified. Ads have no place living on an OS.
Wait...this is a thing now!?! I switched to PC, so I wouldn't know...Crazy.
Click the Win11 search bar...
PC ≠ Windows
-Your local linux evangelist
How do you know someone is a Linux user?
They'll fucking tell you.
No, that's just Arch Linux users.
I use Arch, btw.
We just need the rest of the Linux gang to experience the glory of pacman+AUR, it's not our fault they don't listen.
NixOS users too
You know, that saying doesn't work nearly as well when the conversation is actually about people's experience with operating systems.
I mean, go to any tech related post and every thread quickly becomes about Linux regardless of what it was about.
almost like linux is really important and what an absurd amount of devices run, regardless of the task they ultimately perform.
Concrete and steel are really important but construction workers don't tend to rant about it off the clock.
It's because Linux is the solution to everything including issues like world hunger and war.
"pc has ads too!"
"No thats just windows, other operating systems dont do that. Linux has no ads, for example."
"AAAAAAHHHHHH LINUX USER LINUX USER!!! AAAAAHHHHH YOU SAID IT THE DEVIL WORD LINUX AAAAAAAAHHHHH MOMMY MOMMY HOLD ME AAAAAAAHHHH THEY TOLD ME THEY USE LINUX AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH OH GOD OH FUCK OH GOD"
Lol exaggerate much?
Yeah bud, thats kinda the point
"Exaggerate for comedic effect" is one of the oldest comedy standards.
Cry harder
Am I crying? No, I'm laughing at you.
Laughing, but just in the pauses between each ad you’re reading or dismissing, I imagine.
Truly the vegans of tech
That's bad, but at the very least, Windows can be customized to hide all that crap. Some options are up front, some require a lot more digging, but it can be de-advertised. Xbox is way more locked down.
The first thing I do on any new Windows install is turn web results off in search. This resolves the exact problem people are constantly complaining about.
I've never seen an ad on Windows 10 or 11. Been using 11 for over a year at this point. The start menu just has my pinned apps and recent files.
There may be regional differences, depending on how much local laws allow Microsoft to profit off of you...
Which usually means just the US and Australia.
I take it you haven't used Windows 11 yet, The start menu is basically all advertisements.
You can turn them all off though
I shouldn't have to. And if I do it should all be toggles in one place. Not scattered and hidden throughout control panel, settings, and the terminal.
You shouldn't have to, but it's also something that you only have to do once and takes less than 30 seconds.
It's a minor annoyance but people act like microsoft crashed an suv into their living room and killed their cat.
It does not take 30 seconds, it takes up to five minutes. Some of these changes also get reverted with specific updates and suddenly you're seeing ads again.
I've never had this change reverted in an update.
And it does not take 5 minutes, I can do it in less than 30 seconds. It's a single key in the registry.
Thats the tailored experiences, common users dont have the knowledge to safely edit registry keys. Thats a bullshit excuse to hide ads there and you know it. Stop defending shitty practices.
i’m not defending it. literally the first thing i said was that users shouldn’t have to do this.
and it’s not the tailored experiences, i’m talking about the “feature” that puts web results in the start menu search.
all i did was add some nuance to the conversation and you’re crucifying me over it because i didn’t pile on the circlejerk.
Yes I am. Saying "its not that bad, it only takes thirty seconds" is literally defending shoving ads down our throats and making them hard to remove. That way of thinking deserves to be crucified. Ads have no place living on an OS.
I have, but there aren't any unskippable ads at startup.