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We should ban advertising with only very narrow exceptions.
No exceptions, particularly when it comes to your operating systems. Apple does it. Canonical does it. Windows does it. Google does it (kinda a duh, I agree). Stop this madness.
Even though 99% of the developers at Microsoft don't have anything to do with Windows, it's so bad I would never apply for a job there strictly based on the association. It's terrible.
I’ve heard installing windows with language set to English Europe or world makes the experience a lot better. Is that true?
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No exceptions, particularly when it comes to your operating systems. Apple does it. Canonical does it. Windows does it. Google does it (kinda a duh, I agree). Stop this madness.
I think parent meant ban all advertising - buses, billboards, TV, etc
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I disagree with the idea of leaving negative reviews just because a game doesn’t support a specific platform. It’s the same toxic fanboy wars we see if a game doesn’t come out on a specific console or available on a specific store. Doing so costs money for a small portion of the community. Ultimately these studios are businesses and have to make financial choices. I do fully recognize that this is a chicken and the e…
I paid for a product and I expect that product to at least not intentionally restrict use on proton. If you intentionally restrict its use on whatever platform i see fit then you are getting a negative review. The wine folks and valve have put serious effort into patching your product to work on linux, but when you actively undermine their effort and intentionally limit its use - either by banning players on linux or…
For every hardcore Linux gamer who would leave a negative review on a game because it's not available on their platform, there will be several regular gamers who would leave a negative review because it doesn't work well on the Steam Deck. Enabling Linux support without actually working at supporting it for real is a risk that game studios rightly avoid.
Steam could probably help with this by giving you a way to bypass the publisher's recommendation with lots of warnings (and maybe disabling negative reviews if you do), but that that doesn't exist is on Steam, not the publisher.
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Well, you paid (one way or another) to license Windows, which allows you to use applications on it including web browsers. They are deliberately interfering with your choice of using someone else's web browser, and they are doing so for reasons that have absolutely nothing to do with the functional considerations of their product. In a normal world this would attract legal scrutiny given their history (and in the EU,…
Google did all of the above? Hobbled Firefox on YouTube via ShadowDOM and polyfill? Hobbled internet explorer on windows mobile for both YouTube and google maps. Google on iOS and android does the same shitty nonsense as Microsoft here.
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No exceptions, particularly when it comes to your operating systems. Apple does it. Canonical does it. Windows does it. Google does it (kinda a duh, I agree). Stop this madness.
I think parent meant ban all advertising - buses, billboards, TV, etc
Advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry who spends millions yearly on figuring out how to manipulate us into buying things we don't need. The average person has no chance against this manipulation.
So yes, burn it all to the ground.
It was kind of weird for a decade there to think of MS as being kind of nice and useful.
I'm a big fan of WSL, which has kept me on Windows for years more than I otherwise would have. But I can't stand the scammy adware infused OS Windows has become and will be moving to Apple Silicon full-time when the next gen M3 Desktop hardware is out. As a recent M2 Macbook Air owner I'm surprised how much software supports ARM/Apple Silicon natively, where everything I use daily as a .NET developer worked OOB [1].…
Why not Linux (depending on your line of work). Wider hardware choice, easier to upgrade, and no corporate oversight. Doesn't cover all use cases but it's a good option these days.
Also, Linux is coming along rather well on Apple Silicon machines.
I'm a big fan of WSL, which has kept me on Windows for years more than I otherwise would have. But I can't stand the scammy adware infused OS Windows has become and will be moving to Apple Silicon full-time when the next gen M3 Desktop hardware is out. As a recent M2 Macbook Air owner I'm surprised how much software supports ARM/Apple Silicon natively, where everything I use daily as a .NET developer worked OOB [1].…
I wanted to add a new user account on my new Windows 11 system. It came with Windows Home right. So when I went to add one, it told me that feature is disabled because I have poor man's Windows, go to this other program. So I go to program B. Guess what program B told me? It told me I was using poor man's Windows to go back to program A to add a new user. I had to do it via command line. After I was about to remove m…
So back to Windows it is, and hoping that they respect the GDPR enough to protect me from the worse of their snooping.