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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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shish_mish@lemmy.world
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I am switching to Linux, and I am not all that techy and am a really old lady. You know Windows is bad when your grandparents are jumping ship. And it is not because I have a burning desire to learn a new operating system, or have taken on a side hustle as an international spy that mandates a more secure system nor did I decide I needed to supplement my pension with some drug deals and Linux was a safer system to coordinate my new worldwide cartel. No I am switching to Linux because every time Windows updates there is a not insignificant chance it will brick my laptop the way it happened to my daughter. Or how after one update my sound stopped working after another, the microphone. There is always something. So yeah the old ones are jumping ship even though I am not exited about it.I really hope it is not too techy…

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SnowMeowXP@lemmy.world
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Your writing does not sound too “old lady” at all! You sound too tech-savy.

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shish_mish@lemmy.world
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Thank you :)

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LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org
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I am absolutely guilty in assuming that the vast majority of fediverse peeps are millennial and gen Z reclusive techie nerd types with a strong slant toward male. To the degree that I almost don’t believe you.

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MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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I really hope it is not too techy…

Depends on the distro. Don’t start with Arch or Gentoo.

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