Microsoft 'temporarily' pumps the brakes on its intrusive Windows 11 ads after receiving constant backlash from Windows 10 users

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• Dioxid3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Too late. Steam Deck and Proton proved linux gaming is doable for most part, and my home PC is getting a UNIX next time I need to update the OS

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m a Linux SysAdmin, so I’m well versed in Linux. My server, laptop and phone all run it, but my desktop still runs Windows 10 because modding Skyrim (via MO2) is a pain in the ass (apparently there have been a lot of improvements in this area in the past year or two since I last tried).

    Windows is such a garbage OS. For the past week or so, ModOrganizer2 would hang for a few seconds anytime I attempted to explore the files of a mod I had installed. MO2 gave no hints regarding what the issue was. I searched for an answer last night and found it on GitHub: a disconnected network drive is the cause…even though everything I was accessing is local 🤦‍♂️ This apparently affects various programs and isn’t specific to MO2, since the person that posted the solution found the original solution in a Steam bug report from over 2 years ago!

    I unmounted the network drive and everything was back to normal! Fucking garbage OS.

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    • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nexus mods has a new mod manager that they’re working on, and it supports linux. Unfortunately it only supports Stardew Valley and Cyberpunk at the moment, but Bethesda games and Baldur’s gate 3 are next on their planned support list.

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    • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The current version of MO2 runs very smoothly on wine, even with hundreds of mods loaded. There is even an install script to simplify the installation on Linux.

      Just be sure to use wine 9 or proton 9. MO2 v2.5.0 and later will not run on older versions of wine.

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• shish_mish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am switching to Linux, and I am not all that techy and am a really old lady. You know Windows is bad when your grandparents are jumping ship. And it is not because I have a burning desire to learn a new operating system, or have taken on a side hustle as an international spy that mandates a more secure system nor did I decide I needed to supplement my pension with some drug deals and Linux was a safer system to coordinate my new worldwide cartel. No I am switching to Linux because every time Windows updates there is a not insignificant chance it will brick my laptop the way it happened to my daughter. Or how after one update my sound stopped working after another, the microphone. There is always something. So yeah the old ones are jumping ship even though I am not exited about it.I really hope it is not too techy…

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  • SnowMeowXP@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Your writing does not sound too “old lady” at all! You sound too tech-savy.

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    • shish_mish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thank you :)

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I really hope it is not too techy…

    Depends on the distro. Don’t start with Arch or Gentoo.

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• TommySoda@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s almost like nobody wants to use your shitty OS or something. My work computer at the office has Windows 11 and I fucking hate it so much. From big stuff like Copilot and Microsoft Edge getting shoved down my throat, to small stuff like needing to change the registry to get a right click menu that isn’t dumbed down. And don’t even get me started on Office 365 or whatever the fuck it’s called that goes through a browser. There was no Internet at the office on Monday so I literally couldn’t do my job. Not to mention I can’t export an Excel sheet into all the different formats I need to.

  I have no idea what direction they think they are going, but if it’s productivity they are doing a terrible job.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s like abuse … if you abuse an individual long enough on a regular basis, the abused person eventually normalizes everything … sometimes the abused person fights back or refuses … but given enough time and effort, if they are not able to avoid the abuser, they learn to accept everything that is done to them.

  They employ the same tactics and psychology for torturing people.

  Microsoft isn’t the dumb one here … because in one way or another, we are all paying to be abused and tortured by these corporations who are making millions off of all of us.

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• kowcop@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just take it as they have put it on hold till win10 support expired

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I am honestly surprised they don’t put ads in Windows 10. Just make it absolutely awful and sloe so people move to Windows 11.

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  • thirteene@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Where did you get your MBA? /s

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• Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve been wanting an excuse to ditch windows, I don’t play competitive games and outside of gaming everything I do on a home computer is done in a browser anyway. I just don’t have a reason to care about Windows at home, I deal with microsofts fuckups enough at work.

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• barsquid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The ratchet of consent was pushed backwards and rests against a tooth.

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• Anticorp@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Temporarily, until they force enough people over that they don’t care anymore.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s a surprise. You’d think they would use there massive market share to force people to move. They could just put ads in Windows 10 to get people to move.

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