Microsoft 'temporarily' pumps the brakes on its intrusive Windows 11 ads after receiving constant backlash from Windows 10 users(www.windowscentral.com)

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Microsoft halts its aggressive Windows 11 ads in Windows 10.

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andyburke@fedia.io

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3 months ago

Switched to 100% linux a few months back.

It is awesome, no interest in going back to that bullshit.

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Laurel Raven@lemmy.zip

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3 months ago

Same, even running games that supposedly don’t work at all on Linux like MS Flight Sim (though, getting rudder pedals to work involved setting a udev rule to tell systemd that it’s a joystick (technically… 3 full range axes) and not a keyboard (really not sure how it came to that conclusion…)

At some point I might try setting up a VM with a stripped down Windows that I pass stuff to for native or near native performance for the things I can’t get working, but so far I’ve not had anything I want to play that I’ve not been able to

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