Our office uses windows, and egde feels like malware to me
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I know ExplorePatcher and Startallback can stop ads on Start menu. is there any viable solution for this Settings app ad?
What's next Microsoft? Replace the windows os loading windows page with a 30s ad? Or have defender uninstall apps if a competitor pays enough? Maybe capture a screenshot of my screen every 3 seconds for AI analysis?
Come on man, stop giving them good ideas!
Nah. I've been advocating for Linux for decades. For decades I've been trying to convince people to switch on its own merits, but none of that has been effective.
It took Microsoft sabotaging their product for me to see the needle shift. So I'm done trying to convince people with carrots, it's time for Microsoft to convince the masses with sticks.
Yeah I think the masses are going to be a tough sell on Linux until computer manufacturers start offering Linux builds with a pre-installed instance.
I'm sure there are places that do it but there's probably money to be made in just setting up Linux on machines for people.
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Maybe capture a screenshot of my screen every 3 seconds for AI analysis?
Yep yep. Was hoping someone would call me out on that. 😝
Microsoft is so confident in its desktop marketshare that they allow themselves to push the overton window on what users will tolerate.
The only competitor they can lose users to is Apple. And even then not everyone can afford an Apple computer, especially in the rest of the world
Forget Apple. Without buying any new hardware, i managed to replace Windows with Ubuntu just a month ago. My most hated moment on windows was the time i saw the onedrive ad in file explorer... That felt way too intrusive.
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I use edge and subscribe to gamepass, so the ads is gone, right?
They are behaving as if someone promised them to outlaw FOSS operating systems.
Unfortunately these are not a serious threat to them. When it comes to personal desktop / laptop OS market share, linux is in the single digits.
Every product that has overtaken another has started in single digits. This is hardly a point at all.
... Cool reply, thanks. Anyways, I do hope now is the time linux will take off. I recently did the switch myself
I switched to Linux Mint Debian edition when the Reddit thing happened. I'm glad I did before Windows got this bad.
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You guys complain but you never actually switch to Linux. :)
If you truly cared about being a technological slave, you would learn Linux tomorrow. But just like someone stuck in a abusive relationship, you hang around despite the horrible treatment because you are afraid to leave what's comfortable.
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Microsoft went too far in 2001 when they included a new online activation feature in Windows XP which spearheaded the future of drm and enshitification. All the most recent stuff is just more icing on the shit cake. They've been one-upping themselves ever since.
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I hope they don't show an ad on my doctor's operating table computer while he's performing surgery on my heart and watching through a camera image. 😱
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