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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

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

int_19h wrote: post #199
wildrhythms wrote: post #124

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I feel like there's a cyclical gridlock between businesses and business software vendors in which neither party can afford to be the "first" to move to a new platform. It's like a comical game of chicken because in less than a decade all of this software is going to be in a web browser anyway.

> It's like a comical game of chicken because in less than a decade all of this software is going to be in a web browser anyway. Will it, though? On the surface it stands to reason, but I distinctly recall seeing this exact argument a lot back in mid-00s already, during all the initial RoR craze. And yet, here we are.

It might just be my own personal experience, but the business tools I'm using today are very different from those of the mid-00s. We weren't using salesforce or google docs or even webmail-for-business back then.

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Post by justin66 »

morrbo wrote: post #282
justin66 wrote: post #244

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You need to read up on using group policy to change this behavior. It's not reasonable to expect an end user to know about this stuff but if you're really worried about servers, you should already know this. I'm guessing that's why you were downvoted.

I'm fully aware of gpo, thanks. I was more on about the shift from the default of do not update (in server 2012) -> update and restart (as a default in server 2016)

I can't really fault them for picking the safest default option (for the user and for the network) out of the box, even if it's an option that will negatively affect uptime if not altered. That's just the world we're living in right now.

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mcbits wrote: post #206
archon wrote: post #91

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> 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…

After hopping back and forth between Windows and Linux for 6-12 months at a time for a many years, I've realized that I spend at least as much time dorking around with Windows and related software after a clean install as with desktop Linux distros. Still I keep hopping, because both worlds get too frustrating after a while. Out of the box, Ubuntu & friends (which have improved a lot in 6 years) are far more function…

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Post by nxc18 »

falcolas wrote: post #165
nxc18 wrote: post #152

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Just to clarify, this is basically the same exact thing that macOS does with regards to storage. Try running low on storage and see how long it takes to get spammed with notifications to buy more icloud storage.

> Try running low on [iCloud] storage That bit's important - I don't have to be using Microsoft's storage system at all to loose a good 200 pixels to the banner after every restart. I'm not even signed into a Microsoft account with my account; doesn't matter.

That's the point though; I'm not running low on iCloud storage. I've never put a single file in iCloud storage, at least not from my MacBook (my iPhone seems to automatically back up, but I'm not sure that counts as 'files').

I'm running out of disk space on my MacBook and it wants me to buy iCloud storage so I can offload things to the cloud. I'm not an existing customer, I've never given them a dime for storage, and yet they keep pestering me to buy.

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Post by 21 »

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #270
DanBC wrote: post #266

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I've read all of it. It's a considerable amount of work for an average user to get a working Ubuntu, and even after all that work there are still things (headphone audio ffs) that don't work. This thread is about how people today should move off Windows, and how it is trivially easy to do so. I agree people should move off windows. I disagree that it's trivially easy to do so, especially for these class of netbook st…

ASUS is the exception, not the norm, and dealbreaker bugs are generally only found in recent models. My point is that for nearly everyone, switching to Linux is easy, and people who generalize the whole platform as broken are spreading FUD.

So I tried yesterday installing (as a dual boot) Ubuntu on my desktop. 3 year old system, Intel 4770 CPU, Gigabyte motherboard, nothing fancy.

Ubuntu 16.10 wouldn't boot from a USB stick, with some PM error and the CPU watchdog errors.

Fine, go to all the trouble of plugging in a DVD drive, go out, buy a blank DVD. Same thing. The Ubuntu installation media just hangs with an error. Googling that didn't help.

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Post by PleaseHelpMe »

When some articles bashing Edge or some other Windows features appear on Hackernews, there is always someone in the comment stating "I work for Microsoft". "Microsoft employee here"... then protect the product. I am dying to see one that protects this.

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

overcast wrote: post #300
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #299

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Certainly, The Enterprise - if that means the enormous multinational companies at the very top - will be the last to switch since they are change-averse and such a change would be extremely disruptive. But SMEs and new companies are undoubtedly using non-Windows desktops more and more. Anecdotally, the 15-person 5yo company I work for uses chromebooks, mac laptops, a mac desktop and, possibly, one or two pc laptops (…

Change-averse is putting it extremely mildly. You understand the IMMENSE amount of software required to run on Windows. Just Office alone is not going to change for any corporation. It's really just not worth it at all.

Well, I didn't want to be TOO rude ;-) I realise that there are a lot of huge companies that have tied themselves into Windows. I'm just pointing out that the trend I've observed, at least here in the U.K., is for new companies (which will one day become the behemoths) to use a variety of clients, either running cross-platform apps or webapps. Our company went from a mac shop to a chromebook one practically overnight. There might still be some barriers there, for some companies, but far less so today than 10 years ago.

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Post by vetinari »

dTal wrote: post #287
H4CK3RM4N wrote: post #147

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Assuming they're on a network you control, probably around as hard as upside-down ternet. Wait, what if you were to redirect the download links for the automatic updates to a Linux installer? Assuming Microsoft's security is still as lax as it was during the XP era, you could get this to work without much difficulty.

Alas, the narrow window of time in which a novice could reasonably be expected to install Linux without undue hassle came to an end with UEFI and SecureBoot.

Linux distributions work fine with UEFI a Secure Boot[1]. Maybe even better than with BIOS and MBR, because now, there is no excuse to just overwrite the MBR. OS Installers are supposed to just add an entry into UEFI boot manager.

[1] Secure Boot comes into play only when 1) you use distribution in SecureBoot enforcing mode (RHEL, CentOS, Fedora) and 2) want to build your own kernel modules. Then, you have to enroll your Machine Owner Key into UEFI and sign your modules with it. However, building kernel modules is not something that grandma is going to do. For normal use, all the mainstream distributions come with a signed bootloader (shim.efi).

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Post by asadlionpk »

tempodox wrote: post #279
asadlionpk wrote: post #191

Everyone panicking should know that macOS has this too.

This is plainly wrong. You are disseminating misinformation.

It gives me an annoying 'disk is full' message every day even when I have plenty of it left. And clicking it opens up Storage Management utility which simply upsells me iCloud upgrade as the top 'Recommendation'.

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Post by vetinari »

cm2187 wrote: post #234
pietroalbini wrote: post #221

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On servers, an UI is just a waste of resources, and doesn't allow you to configure the server automatically (with tools such as ansible).

I can understand why they do it. But my point is about how hard it is to transition from Windows to Linux.

The default for windows servers is also gui-less install. You have to specifically select the gui when installing.

So I guess you are talking about transitioning from Windows client to Linux server.

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