Feeling better every day about ignoring upgrade from 7 > 10 constant spam.
Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
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Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's why the parent put "free" in quotes. Unlike all the previous versions of Windows, MSFT decided to make this upgrade "free" for a while, but AFAIK it's still ridiculously easy to pirate Win10, and the "accessibility technologies" free upgrade loophole, which was said to be closing "very soon" many months ago, is still open. In other words, if you really don't want to pay, Microsoft still seems desperate to get…
> As a mass-exodus to Linux and macOS curretly seems unlikely, their strategy appears to be winning so far. ... or people just install windows 7 / avoid upgrading to 10. Hard to call that a "win" Take everything with a grain of salt, but metrics still point to Windows 7 dominance: http://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/de... https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share...
How hard would it be to replace the ads with instructions to do a parallel Ubuntu install?
Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
#103Note there's ads in lots of other parts of Windows 10 too: the Start menu tiles, the preloaded programs, and the Notifications area. There are different ways to turn each of these off. They are multiplying.
Fuck everything about this. My computer is my tool and my work environment.
Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
#104Note there's ads in lots of other parts of Windows 10 too: the Start menu tiles, the preloaded programs, and the Notifications area. There are different ways to turn each of these off. They are multiplying. Fuck everything about this. My computer is my tool and my work environment.
The lock/login screen too.
Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have a reasonably noob-unfriendly linux distro (arch) on my bleeding edge kaby lane xps 13 laptop (month or two old) and even the touchscreen worked without any messing around with config files and so on. It came with ubuntu pre-loaded and I assumed they tweaked the arse out of the configs for it, and so expected pain when I replaced the OS. Turns out I was wrong. Vanilla with a minimal distro and even the touchscr…
> At the same time I'm don't understand how anyone with who works in tech and is thus capable of really understanding these things would voluntarily pick this stack as their daily driver. Because it's way less work. Simple as that. Windows, in my experience, just works. The things about it that don't work are the exceptions. Windows gets out of my way and lets me work with minimal setup and maintenance. Linux, on the…
Well, my point was kinda exactly that things are better now.....
Yours was the exact reason I used OSX for almost 6 years; it stopped being true and I switched back to linux at the end of last year.
Since then, I've had exactly one time my laptop didn't wake up from sleep in around 2 months VS daily crashes and annoying popups from my last mac.
Also lots of grateful family/friends who recieved all my old apple gear ;)
Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
#106Here's a better idea - show Microsoft that you don't accept this type of behaviour by switching products/services. I'm aware that Windows 10 is a "free" OS, but trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs.
I'll say it again on HN:
I have never seen an ad on Windows 10 Pro except:
- Candy Crush - Edge Homescreen (hardly counts)
Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
#107Here's a better idea - show Microsoft that you don't accept this type of behaviour by switching products/services. I'm aware that Windows 10 is a "free" OS, but trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs.
> trying to ram this type of behaviour down my throat is despicable unethical behaviour and I don't condone it. It is why I've switched to Linux for my daily computing needs. Last time I used Linux (well, Ubuntu specifically) every time I searched for anything in the file system I would see at least half a dozen ads for products on Amazon. Significantly worse than anything I've ever seen in Windows 10 personally. Uni…
Not anymore, they (Ubuntu) turned it off.
Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
And I seem to remember when Microsoft squeezed out the market of accelerated sound cards, like SoundBlaster Live. It effectively killed their audio market overnight, with the fact that everything had to go over their DRM stack. We could have had machines with DSPs for sound, GPUs for accelerated array math, and general purpose CPUs for everything else. But MS decided that for us... Even though us Linux people can use…
I wonder how much of that had to do with the MAFIAA...
A lot.
The switch from XP to Vista and the concurrent death of CRTs were a lot about holywood.
Sound Cards, analog screens and advanced video programming (ie: changing how the screen acts directly instead of sending pixels on an standard defined manner) all allowed people to skip DRM and also all prevented new formats from getting popular.
This is still that way, note 4k video cards and screens showed up at the same time a new bluray variation is coming out, despite tech for that being ancient. (in 1995 Silicon Graphics was selling workstation that could push in the monitor 48bit colour images at resolutions around 1080p, if you had deep pockets 4k 48bit was possible...)
Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I'll admit I didn't read the article before commenting.. It's a popup slinging integrated cloud storage? Mef. I'm with ya. Who cares.
And I don't blame you for reacting how you did from the headlines. They are all worded like MS is putting banner ads for "hot singles in your area" in your OS... And this story has been covered by every single major tech news site the same way... It's odd.
Maybe the problem is in that that we wouldn't be that suprised if they did, eh?
It's coming, eventually.
Re: Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off
#110Is it possible to run Windows Server on desktop/laptop in order to avoid all the windows 10 nonsense (cortana, telemetry, ads etc.) ?