What the fuck ? You choose to let Microsoft show you whatever they want on the login screen and complain their show you an ad ?
Seriously ? Disable the spotlight crap and be on your merry way. Or install Ubuntu and watch Amazon ads :D
Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
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Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
#132With Windows 10 doing things like this, and Windows 7 being aggressively deprecated, I decided I finally wanted to ditch Windows as my daily driver. It was good timing, then, that I watched the "7 Gamers 1 CPU" video from LinuxTechTips, which showed me how to do it without sacrificing gaming. Most everything I use runs in Linux, and for the few things that don't I can spin up a VM. But there's the caveat that is as o…
Have you considered: you don't really need to play video games anyway
Nor do you need to be on Hacker News...
Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
#133With Windows 10 doing things like this, and Windows 7 being aggressively deprecated, I decided I finally wanted to ditch Windows as my daily driver. It was good timing, then, that I watched the "7 Gamers 1 CPU" video from LinuxTechTips, which showed me how to do it without sacrificing gaming. Most everything I use runs in Linux, and for the few things that don't I can spin up a VM. But there's the caveat that is as o…
Do you have a link to a recommended tutorial?
The VFIO blog was the best resource I found. Start at the first article (http://vfio.blogspot.com/2015/05/vfio-gpu-how-to-series-part...) in the how to series, work through that, and then read all the other posts on there. It's also helpful to use https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVM... , as that covers some of the things that the VFIO blog glosses over and it's a little more up-to-date. This is all bleeding edge stuff. For example, VFIO broke in a recent Linux kernel and only got fixed and released in Arch's repos a few days before I started my installation :P
Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
If only there really was universal expectation of free software. Then we'd really be getting somewhere.
Software will never truly be "free" because someone pays for it to exist. It has upfront fixed costs and variable costs to maintain, which need to be covered by the developers, users, advertisers, or some combination of the three.
By that definition nothing can be "free" (as in beer), there's always someone paying for it (even if it's just opportunity cost). For any useful definition of the word free there can also be free software.
Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
#135With Windows 10 doing things like this, and Windows 7 being aggressively deprecated, I decided I finally wanted to ditch Windows as my daily driver. It was good timing, then, that I watched the "7 Gamers 1 CPU" video from LinuxTechTips, which showed me how to do it without sacrificing gaming. Most everything I use runs in Linux, and for the few things that don't I can spin up a VM. But there's the caveat that is as o…
Have you considered: you don't really need to play video games anyway
You do need to relax and unwind though, and video games are a great way to do that.
Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
#136With Windows 10 doing things like this, and Windows 7 being aggressively deprecated, I decided I finally wanted to ditch Windows as my daily driver. It was good timing, then, that I watched the "7 Gamers 1 CPU" video from LinuxTechTips, which showed me how to do it without sacrificing gaming. Most everything I use runs in Linux, and for the few things that don't I can spin up a VM. But there's the caveat that is as o…
Have you considered: you don't really need to play video games anyway
It's not something that requires explicit consideration: probably anybody you ask will tell you that no, they don't need to play videogames; people who play them normally do it because they enjoy it, not because they need to.
(It feels weird to have to explain that.)
Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
#137With Windows 10 doing things like this, and Windows 7 being aggressively deprecated, I decided I finally wanted to ditch Windows as my daily driver. It was good timing, then, that I watched the "7 Gamers 1 CPU" video from LinuxTechTips, which showed me how to do it without sacrificing gaming. Most everything I use runs in Linux, and for the few things that don't I can spin up a VM. But there's the caveat that is as o…
How much of a performance hit do you get running a VM with vtx and vtd versus running windows bare metal?
Is it as simple as it seems? I'd love to switch over to a VM for windows games backed by vtx and vtd, but I've been worried that it'd be waay more work.
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#138Not surprised. Some of us have been predicting this for years, but we tended to get shouted down for committing the Slippery Slope fallacy.
Predicting what exactly?
1. New spotlight feature = on; 2. Toggle "fun facts and more" = on;
You know that images will stream in from the internet along with "fun facts and more" whatever that is. And when a Tomb Raider image appears, you're suddenly in Orwellian future shock mode?
The day MS takes away the toggle so you can't switch ads off, is the day to be outraged. Not before.
Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
#139With Windows 10 doing things like this, and Windows 7 being aggressively deprecated, I decided I finally wanted to ditch Windows as my daily driver. It was good timing, then, that I watched the "7 Gamers 1 CPU" video from LinuxTechTips, which showed me how to do it without sacrificing gaming. Most everything I use runs in Linux, and for the few things that don't I can spin up a VM. But there's the caveat that is as o…
Any chance you have a parts list for your build?
Re: Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads
#140With Windows 10 doing things like this, and Windows 7 being aggressively deprecated, I decided I finally wanted to ditch Windows as my daily driver. It was good timing, then, that I watched the "7 Gamers 1 CPU" video from LinuxTechTips, which showed me how to do it without sacrificing gaming. Most everything I use runs in Linux, and for the few things that don't I can spin up a VM. But there's the caveat that is as o…
Have you considered: you don't really need to play video games anyway
Right, who needs hobbys or fun anyway. /s