Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu
The first ads in the Windows 11 Start menu will look familiar.
man it's like the rate of profit is falling in an economic system that demands ever-expansive growth
or somethin'
I am so tired of capitalism
Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu | Hacker News
If I’m not mistaken, it’s illegal in the US to place advertisements alongside content without distinguishing them. I don’t see a marker in the screenshot; is this simply a problem with the beta?
The article calls them ads, but in the linked blog post by Microsoft only calls them "recommended apps". There's a difference between the two, and the latter doesn't have to be marked as sponsored if Microsoft is coming up with the recommendation themselves.
they had ads since win10.
they had flipboard and photoshop and minecraft in there even when i never installed that stuff.
eventually i stopped trying to clean it and just moved to ubuntu. i recommend some flavour of linux if ads, tracking or overall corporate late stage capitalism bothers you.
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It's only going to get worse.
MintOS is easy af to use too!
I'm gonna have to reinstall Windows 10 on my desktop for games, to avoid this shit.
Related - https://hexbear.net/comment/4802225
this is like the 50th time i've seen a 'Theyre testing out ads in windows!' article. Haven't seen one yet. Also, pirate win 11 enterprise and never have to deal with any of this.
Use the right version of Windows and configure it right and you never have to deal with 99% of the issues people complain about.
configure it right
ie install like 7 third party software (Chocolatey, Power Toys, PSWindowsUpdate, Notepad++, Firefox, Open Shell, some debloater script) to make it on par with some generic Linux distro.
"my Tesla would never roll into a pond and drown me, because I am a certified Tesla operating professional."
use literally any version of any other OS out of the box, pay nothing for it, and be amazed at it not being a bloated, unstable, insecure, personal data harvesting and ad serving dumpster fire.
It’s always a good time to switch to Linux. Some distributions are super easy to learn, while others require some minor knowledge to really get off the ground. Here are a few of my recommendations.
Linux Mint - https://linuxmint.com/
Ubuntu - https://www.ubuntu.com
Debian - https://www.debian.org/
Fedora - https://fedoraproject.org/
I personally use Debian. It is my favorite of the bunch mentioned. It requires some configuration for me to get up to where I need it, but it runs flawlessly once I’m there.
Linux Mint is really good for users switching for the first time. It is also my recommendation for new Linux users. Its default look and feel is akin to Windows and users will feel right at home out of the box.
Ubuntu is similar in usability to Mint, but Canonical isn’t great and has made some very poor decisions in the past. Doesn’t have a Windows like interface by default, but is really hard to break if I remember correctly (I haven’t used Ubuntu in probably 8+ years so take all this with some salt)
Fedora I have the least experience with. It seems to be a hit or miss distribution, but some may find their home here. Also ships with an interface that windows users would need time to adjust to.
Fedora I have the least experience with. It seems to be a hit or miss distribution, but some may find their home here. Also ships with an interface that windows users would need time to adjust to.
This is my general impression after dual booting with Fedora on an old Macbook. You also need to install a bunch of drivers and codecs since they don't ship by default. I get this impression that Fedora has noticeably less packages than Debian or Arch although there are ways around it by using Distrobox. Fedora comes with Flatpak, so I guess they want people to install apps with Flatpak.
Overall, I think it's a poor distro if you want to introduce new people to Linux. There's a Fedora-based distro called Nobara that seems to fix some of these issues although I can't vouch for it since I've never tried it before. This is probably better than Fedora assuming it works as advertised.
I kinda wouldn't recommend distros downstream of the big guys for new users because if they go down that road, they're going to get into terrain they don't know how to read. They won't be able to tell a shady or poorly supported project from something more serious.
Also, small downstream distros are harder to troubleshoot for newbies when there're issues, because there're fewer people answering questions.
Fedora is a poor distro for absolute newcomers because they do not ship any proprietary software by default*, nor do they keep any in their repos. If you want a free-software-only distro and have (the correct) philosophical inclination for a world without proprietary software, it's an excellent choice.
Fedora is the distro I use, but with support from RPMFusion for things like FFmpeg with proprietary codecs, my stupid Nvidia proprietary driver, and so on.
*https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/license-approval/#_licenses_allowed_for_firmware Fedora makes an exception for some binary firmware images
I am actually experiencing critical issues with my Windows. Care to give your recommendations regarding Debian configuration?
Also, if I may, when manually installing Arch, how does one properly set up fstab when there are multiple mounting points that are not nested, like in the case of /efi/ not being within where the root partition is mounted?
yeah we're gonna need one of the nerds here to write up a guide on How to Install and Use Linux for Jocks or something, this shit is gonna be intolerable
Death to America
They've been A/B testing ads in the Start Menu since Windows 7 (though I see this is hinted at in the bottom of the mini-article). I'm amazed to see some commenters here say they haven't seen ads, but rest assured that millions of Windows users out there already have been seeing ads in their start menu for years. This is not some huge change.