The first ads in the Windows 11 Start menu will look familiar.

The software maker will use the Recommended section of the Start menu, which usually shows file recommendations, to suggest apps from the Microsoft Store.

  • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Do any windows users remember in like 2019 when they had the offline search in the start menu that was such a beast? It could find anything inside the contents of any document on the computer almost instantaneously, use booleans, search metadata and everything. We had no idea at the time that was peak start menu. It’s all been downhill.

    • axby@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      I already basically get that half the time I boot into windows after an update. They say “let’s finish setting up your PC” and try to get you to pay for one drive, office, even game pass.

      I’m so glad gaming on Linux has gotten to such a good state. I barely ever boot into windows now. (The “ad” on boot up is probably only once every few months, but that’s about as often as I boot into windows).

  • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    Why are companies obsessed with adverts. They ruin the UX, they annoy users, and frankly, if i see an advert in something im trying to enjoy, at this point, it makes me actively not want to buy whatever is being sold.

    When adverts fill the peripheral or are unintrusive, they are acceptable. When they interrupt the flow of what i am doing, i want to burn them.

    I appreciate that they are how we make things free, but there is a point where they tip the balance of being worth it into the negative. And frankly, adverts in my OS are way over the line. I’d rather pay for windows 11 than use it with adverts. Perhaps its time for me to join a large number of my fellow lemmings and use linux.

  • kescusay@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    Well, of course. I mean it’s not like you paid for a Microsoft Windows license when you bought your computer, so obviously they have to advertise to financially support it. If you’re getting something for free, you’re the product.

    …

    …

    …

    Wait, I’m being told that when people buy computers with Windows installed, they are, in fact, paying for a Windows license, too.

    So this is actually Microsoft trying to turn products they’ve already sold into continuous revenue streams at the cost of usability and customer happiness.

    In other news, apropos of nothing in particular, Steam on Linux is working really well these days, with lots of AAA titles running just fine via Proton. Make of that what you will…

    • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      I wish this was true…

      …but there’s still a few technical issues that keep things from running smooth.

      Also, VR.

    • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      Kernel level anticheat for a few games is the only real speedbump I’m aware of, and it’s only on a couple of game franchises like CoD I think. I would love it a ton of people made the switch and it hurt those games’ companies revenue noticeably enough that they look for a way to moderate cheating without just lazily requiring Windows in order to play online.

      Linux is finally convenient enough to realistically steal swaths of customers from Microsoft, and it’s at the same time that Windows 11 is pissing a ton of people off. We’re in for some strange times.

      • Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        “Kernel-level anti-cheat” is just company talk for rootkit. I’ll pass.

        I doubt that it reliably stops DMA boards anyway.

  • daddy32@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    Ads were already there for years - for Facebook, TikTok, Candy Crush, and who knows what else.

    I would say this is embarrassingly unprofessional, but the truth is this is just normal these days - normalized by Facebook and Android - and I’m just old and used to better software.

    I switched to Linux the same year they appeared.

  • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    i’ve been testing not using windows ever again. since 2004.

    it’s great.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    One of the most hated features of Windows 10 and they removed it just to add it back later lmao. They deffo had this planned all along and knew it would hurt their already terrible upgrade rates if they added it from the start

  • el_eh_chase@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    Windows is becoming more of a shit show everyday, comically so. Glad I finally installed Linux Mint today. I’ve used Windows exclusively up until now and just quit cold turkey, putting Mint on my daily driver. I was hesitant to upend my computer habits by swapping OS, but I should have done this ages ago. I’m sure I’ll run into some kind of issue sooner than later, but I’ll take a technical problem over one manufactured by a corporation’s greed any day.

  • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    7 months ago

    thats been happening since win10

    get linux if you are that bothered about this

  • tourist@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    who would click that

    who clicks ads in general

    have you ever clicked an ad (on purpose)

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      7 months ago

      I have never, not once in my life, clicked on an internet or electronic ad. Even for things I’m ostensibly interested in. Jury’s out on just how much manically SEO optimized retail web sites on Google count as “ads,” I guess. But other than that: Zilch.

      But someone somewhere must be clicking on them because billions of dollars are spent every year pushing the fucking things.

      • BossDj@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        I’m so skewed this direction that I’ll scroll past the sponsored version of the link in a Google search to click on the exact, unsponsored version. I don’t know why.

  • Crafter72@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Ah finally, Windows and Cheap chinese android phone have something in common. Ads in their built in bloatwares apps.

              • Jolteon@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                7 months ago

                I’m guessing it’s a combination of general optimizations, Google Play services & store not having the same level of background and network capabilities, and more control over background apps in general.

                • Churbleyimyam@lemm.eeEnglish
                  0·
                  7 months ago

                  OK. I have no google services running but do not get amazing battery. Its probably because I have a couple of messaging apps awake in the background though. I tried self-hosting push notifications but didn’t get it working reliably.