Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our unshittified experience

Conditioning everyone to see their computers as media consumption kiosks instead of the powerful, productive machines they are. That's where MS OSes are headed. They tried too early with Windows 8 Metro, but they haven't lost sight of that concept.

"My TV shows ads so it's only natural my computer does too." - I bet a lot of people already think like this.

I want to make a script for Linux that adds ads everywhere. It would be tricky with Wayland but not impossible. It could start by installing browser extensions.

Makes me wonder how long till video game load screens are sold as ad space.

they used to call this malware

How the heck did those tools developers figure out how to remove those various ads in windows? Did they do it the hard way, fired up a debugger to reverse engineer how those ads were displayed? That takes some dedication. We in the Linux land have it easy because the source code is available to mess with.

But how do I stop all the ads in Linux for penguins and wildebeest?

At this point it would be easier to install a new user friendly linux distro...

I have win11 on my gaming pc and i don't see any ads. Maybe because i use local account.

Look, I agree, but let's not kid ourselves on our experience not being shitty too 🤣. We're capable of using it only because we're really good at computers, but there are literally millions of people who don't even know or care about knowing how to change desktop background

Genuinely where is the line for people still putting up with this stuff?

Someone actually downvoted this. That person is a loser and a bootlicker. Sucks to be you!

Settings ads? I had no idea it got THIS bad.

I have used the Chris Titus debloat tool before and it works pretty well.

Really the fact that this is necessary at all is disgusting. Start Menu ads are straight up AIDS. Not to mention curated news feeds in Start and other places. Why not just tell me what my opinions and purchasing habits should be, and eliminate the middleman?

I feel like even novice Windows users would be better off with Pop! OS and Wine at this point.

Lol. I was on 11, haven't seen the ads, probably due to nextdns, even ran the beta versions. But 24.04 came out and upon testing it seems my WiFi isn't crapping out like if used to so I guess I'll stay.

Man win11.. Wtf...

Does anyone know if the EU protects against this? I am in Europe (well Switzerland, so technically not EU, but GDPR etc. nonetheless) and using windows 11 as my daily driver on two machines (one with beta) I have never seen ads.

EDIT: except for the 'finish setting up' stuff after bigger updates, those I do get.

If you absolutely MUST use Windows, use it with AtlasOS.

Otherwise, Debian w/ KDE Plasma is your panacea.

Ok this is just absurd if there's really file explorer ads

Does anyone happen to know what Mastodon client this is? I'm assuming this is on iOS

I have never seen an ad. I've not put any effort into debloat. It's this all just bs?

Edit: Plenty of down votes for asking a question. Great community guys.

Y'all I fucking hate windows but running linux went fine until I had to do some video editing for classwork. Premiere pro, which I had a student license for, obviously out. I go looking for FOSS alternatives because hey i'm sure there's a good linux video editor. I think I ended up settling on Kdenlive. I tried installing it from the ubuntu app store and that version was missing features. I tried installing it with apt-get and then proceeded to spend the next 5 hours trying to fix a missing dependancy that seemed to have just vanished off the face of fhe earth. I'm sure there are workarounds but "able to look through the error logs of the apt-get and track down the problem" apparently wasn't tech-savvy enough to have a video editor, one of the most important types of professional software IMO. (also i spent so much money on games cause proton doesn't play nice with piracy very often). I think lonux is perfect for thw really basic user or for the hyper advanced superuser types, but when you're in the middle it can be a real bitch to work with.

Yeah, these Linux ads are getting really annoying.

i use windows 11 without that tool and i never get ads like that

clickbait posts are awful

lol windows

Not sure if my AdBlock is responsible for not knowing about any of these ads even existing or EU.

I haven't paid for windows since like 2014. The fuck are you guys doing that you haven't gotten a free legitimate license?

I would love another plug and play experience like I get with windows so I can spend my very limited time on playing the games I like out of the box. Any ideas on how I would do that please?