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Imagine paying money for an os and having to go through this song and dance to not have your productivity tool become an ad infested unproductivity tool
Have you never spent time configuring an operating system?
We generally pay for services, to avoid ads.
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Sure. I think the key to my interpretation is "even when". > the pop-up will appear *even when* Microsoft Edge is the default browser "Even when" says to me that this scenario is in addition to some other scenario, which must inevitably be when Edge isn't the default browser.
Read the next sentence you quoted. This is how the first sentence should read with correct parenthesization: "It’s worth noting that the pop-up will appear even (when Microsoft Edge is the default browser AND you’ve already pinned sites to the taskbar)"
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It's interesting. Lots of people pay and put up with ads for the convenience of cable TV. But I'll happily pay and memorize where my shows are to enjoy Netflix, Hulu and one or two other streaming apps so I can avoid ads but still enjoy my shows (though for network shows, there's often a waiting period before I get to watch them). There, the price difference per month was one of the driving factors. With my PC, I cou…
I just do work stuff on my Linux machine and play stuff on my Windows machine. Couldn't be happier! I've been running Manjaro Linux on 3 workstations for over 2 years now and, as a web developer who does mostly Node/React/React Native, I haven't needed anything from Windows. The best part is not having to fiddle with Windows specific issues all the time. I have even worked on .net core projects with vs code and run S…
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Which is paid to be preinstalled and put in your face every time you open the start menu. I'd go as far to say it is adware.
Me: Opens Start Menu (which, frankly, I don't normally use) - doesn't see it.
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How many people doesn't get updates today because they got sick with the way they were doing windows updates back in the "forced restarted" early days
This bloat culture at microsoft has to stop, please!
I spent hours at the weekend making a windows 10 image with as much bloat disabled as possible. It looks like after just a few days, Microsoft have given me more stuff to remove. I only use it for gaming, so maybe my efforts would be better spent on getting games to work on Linux?
Most games work! Notably, if the game you're playing doesn't have an anti-cheat that's deeply tied to the kernel then there's a good chance it will work with Wine (or Steam Play's version of it) out of the box. The anti-cheats that are deeply tied to the Windows kernel are usually dumpster fires of remote code execution so I don't think there's much of a loss there.
Apple gives an OS away for free - users never see advertisements. Microsoft charges $100 for Windows 10, virtually every corner of the experience is riddled with advertisements and marketing crap.