Technology

If I see your company or app advertised on windows 11, you can be sure I will be actively avoiding said company/ App. Even if I need the services advertised, I will be looking for an alternative just because.

How did the default attitude toward the user get so hostile? The amount of toggles you need to set just to have a smooth experience with minimal tracking is insane. The people in here defending it by the fact it can be disabled are missing the point: we shouldn't have to deal with it in the first place.

Didn't I pay for the OS?

You know, I get if they want to do this to Home editions, but why in the world would they do this to all editions? At the very least, this should never apply to domain-joined computers.

I installed Linux Mint a few days ago. It's been great so far.

I’m getting extremely close to making a tiny partition for windows (so I can play gamepass) and then using a Linux distro for my day to day. Are there still issues with Nvidia drivers on Linux? Its been a long time since I’ve run Linux.

Win11: less functionality, more ads

And what's with the weasel words like "recommended"? Just call them "sponsored" or "ads", like they really are.

How hard is it to make a decent OS Microsoft? Haven't you got enough of our money already?

Oh look another reason why I’ll be switching to Linux next time I have to upgrade my pc. Fml I’m going to have to learn what a package manager is ew

Thank god I use linux

Windows sucks. I wish I could put Linux on my work computer.

How long until Mom gets malware from them?

"All you have to do is set some flags in GPO policy editor and relogin the first time and every time there's an update. Easy"

• some Windows fanboi probably

And the wind screams Linux

Everyone? This shit will be on my work computer???????

Yet another bullet dodged since my move to Linux, thank fuck. Fuck you cunts at Micro$hit.

Think I will try Linux for real now

That's disgusting.

Why does the OS have to recommend you apps?

Fucking unhinged idiocracy. Capitalism is the cancer of humanity

For those who want to stay on windows and avoid this trash:

https://github.com/Open-Shell/Open-Shell-Menu

An open source start menu replacement. Been using it for 6 months seamlessly and it’s great

"Tips and recommendations".

For years I had that turned on in Windoof 10 as it sounded like: "we see you're regularly doing X or having problem Y. Here is a way how to make X simpler and a solution for Y."

Instead it was nothing like that. It was literally nothing at all. Probably they just tried to shove some ads down my throat, which I luckily didn't see.

But it has become clear enough: it's not about helping users with useful tips and recommendations. It's about luring them into buying some stuff.

They can find new clever euphemisms, like EA did with their "surprise mechanics". But it is what it is: ads, digital noise, a waste of resources and probably one of the last incentives I needed to fully switch to a good Linux distro.

I used Windoof just for gaming anyway. And as I'm already working professionally with Linux, it will hardly be a miss.