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Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by DixieDev »

hfktktnfkgk wrote: post #8

One bug I've been hitting for a couple of years on Windows 10: If the computer starts with a working Internet connection, but then you lose Internet, Start Menu search just stops working during net downtime. Meaning I type some app name like "calc" in the Start Menu search box and nothing appears! Which is absolutely ridiculous, I can't search for locally installed apps, or Windows settings. Even if I disabled Cortan…

Can't be sure, and forgive me if this is already what you mean by disabling "Internet Search", but I suspect you are experiencing this because of Bing's involvement in the start menu search. To fix it, you have to regedit some stuff: https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/f09184/how_to_bl...

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by heyitsguay »

INTPenis wrote: post #9

I will begrudgingly use windows 11 at some point because of the games you can play on it. But for anything else I'm so glad Linux and its ecosystem exists, and is only getting more stable lately. Windows gives me heartburn.

If you're playing games through Steam and haven't checked out Proton in a while, give it another try! The only game I haven't been able to get work on Ubuntu 16/18/20 is Fallout 3.

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by 2OEH8eoCRo0 »

INTPenis wrote: post #9

I will begrudgingly use windows 11 at some point because of the games you can play on it. But for anything else I'm so glad Linux and its ecosystem exists, and is only getting more stable lately. Windows gives me heartburn.

What games specifically? Because I've been doing 100% of my gaming on Linux lately and it works quite nice.

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by whalesalad »

This is the achilles heel of Microsoft. They will cannibalize a successful part of their business in order to subsidize/bootstrap/launch or even straight-up force the adoption of new service.

Every Windows release gets progressively worse when it comes to Microsoft's integrated services and how obtrusive they are.

The cherry on top is the fact that Windows 10 Pro is $199 and yet you'll still feel like you are flying Sprit airlines when you boot it up.

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by dankwizard »

heyitsguay wrote: post #12
INTPenis wrote: post #9

I will begrudgingly use windows 11 at some point because of the games you can play on it. But for anything else I'm so glad Linux and its ecosystem exists, and is only getting more stable lately. Windows gives me heartburn.

If you're playing games through Steam and haven't checked out Proton in a while, give it another try! The only game I haven't been able to get work on Ubuntu 16/18/20 is Fallout 3.

Don't feel bad - Fallout 3 (atleast from Steam) no longer works on Windows 10 either! Installed it the other day, googled after it failed to launch, and saw there's a few community efforts and hacks you can try to get it up and running. I gave up.

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by azalemeth »

heyitsguay wrote: post #12
INTPenis wrote: post #9

I will begrudgingly use windows 11 at some point because of the games you can play on it. But for anything else I'm so glad Linux and its ecosystem exists, and is only getting more stable lately. Windows gives me heartburn.

If you're playing games through Steam and haven't checked out Proton in a while, give it another try! The only game I haven't been able to get work on Ubuntu 16/18/20 is Fallout 3.

I completed Fallout 3 a few months ago on Ubuntu 20 under Proton (and Fallout: New Vegas). Try using Lutris's implementation of wine ± proton -- my GOG copy "just worked", much to my surprise. Including the mods, and mod managers!

If you continue to have trouble, drop me an email and I'll give you my configuration.

I very much second your sentiment about proton being "good enough". It's amazing! I have a less than stellar GPU -- a Radeon 570 -- and haven't found a single game that I can't play on 'ultra' settings at 1080p, including the in-development BG3.

After Apple's CSAM awfulness, my next laptop will be linux, ideally with a Zen processor, quite possibly running Manjaro and either KDE or i3.

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by meibo »

whalesalad wrote: post #14

This is the achilles heel of Microsoft. They will cannibalize a successful part of their business in order to subsidize/bootstrap/launch or even straight-up force the adoption of new service. Every Windows release gets progressively worse when it comes to Microsoft's integrated services and how obtrusive they are. The cherry on top is the fact that Windows 10 Pro is $199 and yet you'll still feel like you are flying…

It's such a shame too. Windows 10 is a great modern OS that everyone expected to last and be built upon, but they just had to go and push out a new "modernized" version and fill it up with ads.

I wonder what you pay to be in the Windows 10 Pro start menu and if it's really worth selling out their professional userbase.

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by BizarroLand »

hfktktnfkgk wrote: post #8

One bug I've been hitting for a couple of years on Windows 10: If the computer starts with a working Internet connection, but then you lose Internet, Start Menu search just stops working during net downtime. Meaning I type some app name like "calc" in the Start Menu search box and nothing appears! Which is absolutely ridiculous, I can't search for locally installed apps, or Windows settings. Even if I disabled Cortan…

For me, in Windows 10, I can type "calc" into the search menu and it will recommend and open the calendar app instead of the calculator app 2 out of 5 times.

I will search for an app that I have installed and instead of opening the app it will open a bing search for the app that I have installed.

It's so infuriating that if there were a M$ rep within arm reach I might be tempted to do violence towards them.

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by kaladin-jasnah »

azalemeth wrote: post #16
heyitsguay wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're playing games through Steam and haven't checked out Proton in a while, give it another try! The only game I haven't been able to get work on Ubuntu 16/18/20 is Fallout 3.

I completed Fallout 3 a few months ago on Ubuntu 20 under Proton (and Fallout: New Vegas). Try using Lutris's implementation of wine ± proton -- my GOG copy "just worked", much to my surprise. Including the mods, and mod managers! If you continue to have trouble, drop me an email and I'll give you my configuration. I very much second your sentiment about proton being "good enough". It's amazing! I have a less than st…

There's only one ThinkPad with Ryzen that comes preloaded with Linux last I checked, but I'm hoping more come out soon since I really like ThinkPads. Either way, ThinkPads are worth a look since they play well with Linux, whether they come with Linux preloaded or not.

I'm also in the market (to replace my MacBook-esque XPS 13 Developer Edition), so if someone wants to suggest me a (other than ThinkPads) 13-14 inch laptop that will play well with Linux [not necessarily preloaded], let me know.

Re: Misbehaving Microsoft Teams ad brings down the entire Windows 11 desktop

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Post by zamadatix »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #13
INTPenis wrote: post #9

I will begrudgingly use windows 11 at some point because of the games you can play on it. But for anything else I'm so glad Linux and its ecosystem exists, and is only getting more stable lately. Windows gives me heartburn.

What games specifically? Because I've been doing 100% of my gaming on Linux lately and it works quite nice.

Something like half of the top 10 games on Steam can't even start due to anti cheat and Steam is what's pushing gaming on Linux. To be fair to them if they weren't that number would be a lot worse, many of their own games are in that list. Of the ones that can they generally work alright but a few have intermittent crashes or things you have to workaround.

If you play older/smaller single player games though it generally does the job pretty darn well.

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