> Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone
> Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu.
> The ads are designed to help Windows 11 users discover more apps
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24138949/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-recommendations-setting-disable
But why?
MS has a stranglehold on the consumer computer market.
They essentially have no competition.
Windows successfully transitioned from 'Software Product' to 'UaaS' (User as a Product). Enjoy, goy.
Humiliation ritual
The vast majority of Windows 11 users either run on OEM single use license or cracked version. Microsoft earns jackshit.
Most of their money for actually selling the damn OS itself comes from selling LTSC Enterprise license which is ad-free.
>from selling LTSC Enterprise
You mean standard Enterprise, Azure and Server 2022 right?
>most
Black person all of microsofts os sales combined only accounts from 9-10% of their total revenue
they could scrap windows and be perfectly fine.
Verification not required
I'm not the one who decided to give free upgrades to Windows.
Line must go up. Ford vs. Dodge Brothers demands it.
pretty cool
t. linux user
I use arch btw.
>we are now entering the Windows 10 baby duck era
kys babycuckposter
>replied within 21 seconds
Are you a fricking bot?
>frogroach accuses other people of being bots
comedy
Watch what you call me. I've been here longer than you, 2016 election tourist.
2015 is not better than 2016
t. Project Chanology
The election was being discussed all of 2015 too. I think the point is this site has been stuck in a loop since that shit started. Damn it's nearly been 10 years.
t. fellow mARBLECAKE newbie
I'm still using 7.
Not my problem either
>unstoppable
>Few clicks in settings
I think I'll just use of of those livecd distros that only come with a web browser.
>will turn back on every update
So then toggle them back?
>humiliation cuck ritual every update on your own hardware
nice paid OS you got there, definitely the Best™
>bro just do this stupid song and dance every time your computer updates
Why not just use Linux at that point?
If I'm paying for something I want quality and you don't get that with Windows or OSX. I used to rip on FOSStards but I guess I am one now though I don't even really fricking like Linux.
>he thinks those little switches will stay off after major updates
moron
See
Well this is helpful. A lot of these "features" run in the background. They can be trimmed via services.msc, Powershell scripts (or command line in many cases), registry edits, editing batch files etc etc. There are plenty of tweaks on Majorgeeks, and there's that "winutil" (not to be confused with "WinUtils") .exe that costs $10 - or you can just use the git to get them piecemeal.
Keep in mind that some items are so hard baked in to W11 that turning them off is nearly impossible. Same goes for Office. If you want to curb the latter then make sure you buy the Office LTSC versions and save locally, then upload them to your own online storage (or NAS) as you see fit.
>but you can just disabl-
YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN NEED TO DO THAT
>linux update fricks up all of your files so now you have to reinstall a fresh distro
YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN NEED TO DO THAT
Not a problem
W10 will be the last windows OS. For me at least.
Who's got the regedit for this?
t. enterprise admin who's going to kill this in its infancy
HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionExplorerAdvancedStart_IrisRecommendations
OOSU10 + StartAllBack. Thank me later.
this combo is why i still have a windows machine. the w11 setting they have is sexy
like this is perfection
>24H2 blocks your path
now what?
Stop time so that the 2nd half of 2024 never happens. Checkmate, atheists.
you laugh but i actually have to keep manually resetting the clock on my dedicated Mercedes diagnostic laptop or it will invalidate my (valid) license key
>May
FUD
Skill issue.
What's a good Linux OS to jump to and uninstall Windows that isn't heavy on the confusing command line stuff and is user friendly with gui wizards for setup, etc? Should I try PopOS?
if you are scared about windows settings, i cannot recommend you any linux
Anything Debian based with KDE.
>suggesting debian and kde
Linux is doomed.
linux users need to remember that newfrens should start with the absolute easiest stuff first. Then they can move to the more complicated stuff if they want. Linux Mint is quite easy and the only thing I'm good at computer wise is navigating windows. Please refer to pic related.
making newbies screw around with gentoo is funny, and there's no real point in attracting newbs to linux in the first place, when all they do is complain that it isn't like windows.
It's a moral duty to inform windows users about Linux mint.
Could really use a copy of looking cool in the internet
What year was that made in? EndeavourOS exists in 2024 and fricking gaymers of all people somehow manage to use it.
It was maybe sort of accurate in the early-mid aughts, Arch used to be a very shitty distro. But even back then it was more like
>lmao this moron will just complain no matter what, let's make him try to install a skiddie distro
Linux Mint.
You'll Google a solution to everything on Ubuntu. Good luck with any other distro. Although Lubuntu has less bloat and a familiar start menu out of box.
imagine using anything not based on ubuntu. Imagine having to figure everything out yourself. the stuff of nightmares. Non-ubuntu is for people who like tinkering on their computers.
linux mint. It's a better windows. period.
Well, well, well. They were pushing Windows 11 for a reason.
Glad I use Linux Mint, shouldn't have to keep fighting the OS to not do bullshit like this, shit just stays how I want it.
winblows 11 comes preinstalled with (or direct ms store link in start)
Spotify
TikTok
Instagram
Facebook
Disney+
Prime Video
it's a joke they even charge anything about it. if you buy a $2 dollar key. trust me, its a fricking legit and its more than microsoft dared to charge for it
Well at least they may get rid of the TikTok one soon enough
it's pretty difficult to get people under 30 to buy a windows machine
they all have macbooks
windows is totally unfamiliar territory even though the last update made it look kinda like macos
Those are not preinstalled. They are placeholders to download the actual apps from the Microsoft Store
I don't use TikTok, or care if it's there or not I was just making a joke.
No matter how much I love Linux I fully admit how terrible it is for normies, I don't work with computers for a living but I know my way around computers well enough to adapt. But my wife is completely clueless with technology and anything I try to teach her she forgets 15 minutes later. I have installed Ubuntu on her new laptop because Windows has got so bad that I accepted my fate of daily tech support for her just so we won't have a Windows or Apple machine at home.
Looks like Jeetdows 10 will be the last time I use Winjeet.
Windows 11 made me switch to Linux
I've been using EndeavourOS on my laptop and PC since the start of the fall semester
NOT MY PROBLEM
(i have my own problems)
>Firefox and poetterigware
Diet windows.
Ubuntu 24.04 is coming tomorrow.
Be free MS homosexuals.
oops
better luck next time
Fortunately I'm free from the disease called Windows since the Year of our Lord 2008 so I don't have that problem. God bless Linux.
The only machine that runs windows for me is running win 11 ltsc leaked build, no ads so far
Apple should buy an ad.
Since that's where normies will move to next.
huh I wondered why my system was extra hard to work with this week.
I wonder what's happening recently.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/#monthly-201801-202403
Click on legend to disable everything but Linux.
Note Linux sudden growth starting 2021, after so many years stuck at 1.5%.
The 2020s are unironically the decade of the Linux desktop. By the end of this decade, Linux will reach at least 10% of the desktop market share, maybe more.
Everything is finally ready for Linux to achieve widespread adoption. Distros like Linux Mint now just work out of the box, gaming is better than ever thanks to Valve, and you can now use Linux without ever needing to touch the terminal. Not to mention widespread dissatisfaction amongst normies over Windows 11.
I suspect it is simply the natural destination for power users, as both Windows and MacOS degrade into unbearable territory.
Governments and other public organizations increasingly moving workstations to Linux for sovereignty or cost-saving reasons does likely also weight there.
>Everything is finally ready for Linux to achieve widespread adoption.
I doubt that will ever happen, though I do expect it to establish a firmer niche (assuming the Wayland psyop doesn't kill it).
What we're actually seeing here is less people buying laptops and desktops in general, instead they're buying tablets or just using their phones.
>(assuming the Wayland psyop doesn't kill it).
Plasma 6 managed to make everything work reasonably well despite Wayland.
Open Source will carry on.
>all apple products preloaded with iOS and macOS
>blocks any lincuck distro from even booting with T2
>shifts entire industry to ARM
>x86 and UEFI are fricking dead
>ARM allows all PC OEMs to have a unique proprietary locked bootloader for each product they release
>soon ARM stinkpads will come locked to winblows
>every single ARM laptop will be a unique special snowflake like phones and need a custom bootloader exploit and distro built for it
>736 arm laptops released each year mean 736 device specific root exploits, 736 special snowflake builds of the loonix kernel, and 736 custom builds of ubuntu
>multiplied by 521 different distros that's like over a million different distros have to be specifically built to be arm compatible EVERY UPDATE
>freetards will be lucky to crack 10-20 device bootloaders a year
>hobby loonix distros wiped out instantly because neckbeard neets cant just release 1 ISO for 23,768 laptops anymore
>desktops and custom built devices completely extinct without economy of scale manufacturing when corporate purchases shift entirely to ARM
>only major distros will survive on 2-3 stinkpad models that get cracked each year
>loonix market share tanks from 1% to 0.00001% like it is on android vs lineage
>loonix purged from all of technology within this decade
>Stallman and FSF cancelled
>freetards all neck themselves
Say it with me now:
THANKYOUBASEDAPPLE
someone post the
>don't stand so close to me
lyrics
>are now rolling out to everyone
doesn't work on my linux machine
I'm never touching windows 11 unless it's the LTSC version. For what I've seen it looks to be a good version of LTSC.
I think the bigger news is that the same update introduced a nag message to get you to change your local user account to a Microsoft account.
Frick that.
I disabled ads, thus I cannot care. There are guides to this since the beginning.
This has been the case since Winhoes 10. Every fricking update has to give me a fullscreen prompt for this, at least it is skippable. I'm tired of it.
On my computers where I do use a Microsoft account, it is a non-issue, at least.
>techlets and non-winhoes users speculating over Winhoes 11
>not using edu / enterprise
not my problem
>known unstable cpu
Bruh. I don't even ever open this board but saw this in recommended and damn... just wanted to share that i recently bought a new HP Victus 15 laptop and after hours of installing and debugging windows 10 on it I learned that it literally cannot run it well, it has tons of bugs and driver incompatibilities. The laptop is really made only for windows 11. Ridiculous
So now I'm using it with Windows 11 and at least that works fine (if windows 11 can be considered fine)
SAAAR!
We desperately need an NPC friendly OS that is free as in freedom. The normies need an alternative if we are to be free from the Microshit/Apple oligarchy.
Linux cannot be that because that is not the philosophy. Its made for power users and none else.
But such an OS would also need to become the standard. So that most (pretty much most) software, including games, is made for it.
>But such an OS would also need to become the standard. So that most (pretty much most) software, including games, is made for it.
One of the biggest issues with Linux and FOSS is designers. In the sense they're rarely involved and get overpowered by programmers in the tug of war, meaning they disengage and leave projects. Part of the problem is these programmers have specific and niche needs, the understand systems and they understand software - so they become very focused on what they think is important. Problem is, most people want to be able to use something that is intuitive and approachable. Windows isn't really either of those things - most of the design is grandfathered in. The design paradigms kind of suck (standard boxes and tiles format, weird file name exceptions, obtuse and obscure).
You might be surprised how many users are willing to go to lengths to understand something. That understanding has to align with their existing skills and experience to a degree. It's why recommending arcane Linux distributions is absurd: most users don't have deep technical skills - they specialise in other things - which is how skills tend to work in general. You become an expert in a narrow field and develop general skills that gap fill needs. I wouldn't expect someone to be an expert in how governance works and the concepts behind institutions, or familiar with discursive deconstruction, or object/subject formation in governance (governmentalities). Expecting someone to have deep technological or field-specific knowledge because you yourself possess that knowledge doesn't make you smarter - it makes you a terrible communicator who cannot relate to the needs and specialisations of others.
>In the sense they're rarely involved and get overpowered by programmers in the tug of war, meaning they disengage and leave projects.
there are literally multiple de's/wm's that have hundreds of people contributing designs
>Windows isn't really either of those things - most of the design is grandfathered in.
the absolute fricketty frick?
your chatgpt is broken c**t. It's talking complete shit.
>the absolute fricketty frick?
You use it every day. Most people do. That doesn't make it "intuitive". It makes it align with your experience, which in turn makes it look sensible. To you it is, to many others it isn't.
Never used ChatGPT. Develop a position before you gab all over the keyboard.
I've used windows since 3.11. The design has not been "grandfathered in". Basically every single "new" iteration of windows has been a new design principle.
You're talking out of your arse.
There were ads on Windows 8 and Windows 10 on the big ugly tiles, and they notice just now? Seems kinda suspicious....
I will never ever use linux.
Unstable useless shit that no one ever cares for.
windows 12 reporting in. OP is gayg
Windows advertises to people off the Start Menu? WHat???! My windows 14 don't do that.
you just need that LTT distro.
wow, it's a nothingburger