Game ad notification on Windows...
Game ad notification on Windows...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3405817
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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If you can Install Ubuntu and use Windows on a VirtualBox as a guest.
Non-techy colleagues cannot tell whether it's a virtualized OS or not.
Microsoft as a company profit over its users obsessively
Chances are OP's IT department wouldn't be too keen on that.
One can directly install ubuntu on hyper-v, without any additional 3rd party tools. They just need hyper-v enabled (it's installed by default). It's not user friendly, it's the usual gui mess as one could expect from a ms product. But at least it's preinstalled, which is convenient for a work laptop.
Whether IT security department would allow this... It's another story
Edit. Fixed typo
What is a weather security department?
Ops... I accepted the wrong suggestion from the autocomplete