Windows 11 is a thinly-veiled state-sponsored malware masquerading as a productivity tool.
Windows 11 KB5023778 update adds promotions to the Start menu
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I don't understand what is there to not understand: + Windows is very popular (so awareness is higher) + This behavior is bad and annoying = many people complain
People have been using Windows since 1995. Long before ads and services in OS were normalised.
good extra point. Change to the worse is indeed more noticeable
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#223Great, I just updated to Windows 11 in hope of getting WSL2 + Arch Linux + CUDA + Docker but it didn't pan out in the end, had to move back to proper Linux for that piece of work. But seems I'm stuck with Windows 11 now and additionally, the running applications that show up in the taskbar suddenly can only show icons, no text allowed. I started to regret my decision to upgrade, and this just adds insult to injury.
Were you not able to use WSL2+CUDA+Docker on Win10? I'm currently using that setup and it does use the 2080Ti in this machine and I'm able to run SBERT inferences in a docker container at blisteringly fast speeds now.
Nope, no matter what I tried, I couldn't get it to work. That docker (or anything else for that matter) didn't output any errors when starting a container just made the whole thing difficult to troubleshoot as well. When specifying `--gpus=all` the container just refused to start and docker daemon would hang from there, until I forcefully killed it.
I also had the feeling that even if I fixed this issue, that wouldn't be the last of it, so I just went back to where I came from where I can easily troubleshoot issues and understand all the moving pieces. I guess WSL2 is a bit too much magic for my old brain.
For the record, I tried to use Arch Linux in WSL2 with a RTX 3090ti
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That auto pause if your eyes look away.
with VR/AR, there is no place to look away ;)
With eye tracking they will be able to determine your interest level to allow additional targeted advertising of things that you eye lingers on. If you saw an alcohol ad and lingered on it because you're a recovering alcoholic they'll know to really ramp up the ads on that since they've identified you as having a weakness to them. Maybe they'll even use iris scans or databases of eye movement patterns to identify you as an individual for even better user tracking.
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I fully switched to a fedora because of these ads, I don't really watch news, yet there were some in my home menu. The other one was the forced bottom Taskbar, I have tried, surely I handle it for longer than I originally thought, but screw that.
Worse is that the news is in a language I don’t even understand despite my OS language set to English.
Switzerland too? I am so blind to these ads that I forgot that crap too
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#226How outrageous! Let me close the Apple Music window for this App I can't uninstall, and that popup that says I can't save my notes unless I have iCloud, and look past the automatically included Apple News and Apple Financed widgets in the notification panel I accidentally opened to go open a browser that defaults to showing me the shortcuts for several third party companies whose services I do not use to get on the i…
Yup. I don't understand why people choose to rag on Microsoft when literally everyone else who has something to sell you besides the OS itself, does this. Maybe it's because Windows is from the era when MS was not a services company, and people, by force of inertia, expect windows to continue behaving as if MS is not a services company.
You’re right that it’s a double standard, but to an extent, when I buy an Apple device I know what I’m getting into. Lots of people buy Apple because of the integration. Not many people are forced into using macOS, but many many people are forced to use Windows thanks to Microsoft’s anti-competitive policies.
Windows is also adding this bullshit after decades of being bullshit-free, and even when you do sign up for all their services the overall experience of using them sucks ass compared to the Apple implementation.
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#227Can we classify Windows as adware now?
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It also infuriates me that they won't let you actually say no. It's always "remind me later" or "skip for now" or "try again in 3 days". What has gotten into the minds of these people? Why do they think this is at all acceptable?
> Why do they think this is at all acceptable? You're still a Windows user, aren't you? (No judgement, just answering the question!)
Well I'm not anymore. Didn't think I would ever leave windows, been using it since 3.1 but sometime in middle of windows 10 I finally got fed up and set up dual boot Linux and some months later found myself not having booted the windows side at all. My current laptop (second hand) doesn't have windows on it at all except the sticker that I should probably peel off.
I haven't touched windows 11 at all beyond some idle poking of a display computer at Costco.
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#229That's weird, I have Windows 11 Home installed by the computer manufacturer but I don't recall having any ads. Is that because I disabled them at the start? (don't remember) or maybe because I have pihole in my network? Anyway - no ads for me.
Same here.
I bought (UK) Windows 7 Pro (retail) many years ago, tied to an MS account for licensing. Free upgrade to Windows 8, then Windows 10, followed eventually by my current Windows 11 Pro.
No ads in the OS that I've ever noticed, and the minimal pre-installs (Candy Crush, Office 365 etc) are trivially deleted upon OS installation.
That's 3 upgrades of Windows at no extra cost, and all 4 versions without advertising significant enough for me to remember seeing. And to be honest, even though I'm about 70% a Mac user due to the M1 hardware, and maybe 10% Linux, Windows remains very productive for me (more so than the others) so it's been a bargain.
I appreciate opinions vary, but despite occasional comments in HN about Stockholm Syndrome or not knowing what the alternatives are like I personally enjoy Windows. Yes, even Windows 11. And not just for games.
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#230I'll just remind everybody that on Linux we have VFIO, where you can passthrough your videocard to Windows virtual-machine, and have almost native gaming. As a big plus, your Win VM's disk C:\ is stored in a file, which you can backup and restore any time you want and not care about viruses/trojans/malware.
I may look into that, especially now that I've upgraded to a platform where I have both dedicated and integrated graphics. My current worries are: - I have a VR headset, how much work and how functional is it to use under a VM? I heard you'd have to passthrough the entire USB controller which is.. not great - Anticheat still isnt happy about VMs right? That would cut a couple games I'm currently into - How annoying i…
I've tried passing through VR with VFIO, but it did not work properly (Quest2). As soon as I've activated AirLink (with cable) I could only see my hands and a black screen. AirWith on WiFi straight up did not even find the desktop after the first connection attempt. I just reverted to dualboxing.