He though that new widget with all the advertisements was really nice, and was on the way to thank whoever cleaned his system removing 3/4 of the items on the start menu.
I’d say that’s where you took a wrong turn, but really it was installing Ubuntu in the first place. I’ve given nameless crackheads a dollar that I trust more than Canonical.
I have. it popped up in a notification. it was for MS office even though I have never (and will never) use 365 willingly. If you’re using a organization-controlled version from your employeer, it’s possible they have it turned off and MS actually respected their group policy.
They didn’t for me.
Specifically they turned “suggested” back on after I had turned it off. (and they seem to like doing that with settings all the freaking time)
until they revert your settings in the next update. Which happens. And then there’s the privacy invasion and intrusion they represent. You get to use what you want. But this is linuxmemes… you’re going to find more people hostile to MS here than you will in other vague computing forums. MS definitely deserves the hate, though. “Embrace. Extend. Extinguish” is still their motto.
How do you even not notice?
He though that new widget with all the advertisements was really nice, and was on the way to thank whoever cleaned his system removing 3/4 of the items on the start menu.
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Hum, no, there are no ads on the start menu. They are all on the search widget and at the one near to the notifications.
But yeah, you can remove them if you find the option. They are hidden enough to guarantee most people won’t.
They’re dropping them as notifications in the system tray, though.
Yeah, there’s ways of stopping it, it’s patently ridiculous.
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I’d say that’s where you took a wrong turn, but really it was installing Ubuntu in the first place. I’ve given nameless crackheads a dollar that I trust more than Canonical.
I have. it popped up in a notification. it was for MS office even though I have never (and will never) use 365 willingly. If you’re using a organization-controlled version from your employeer, it’s possible they have it turned off and MS actually respected their group policy.
They didn’t for me. Specifically they turned “suggested” back on after I had turned it off. (and they seem to like doing that with settings all the freaking time)
It is patently ridiculous one time.
You remove them and they will never return.
But the Linux community really likes to rave on about it as if it is the worst infraction since the holocaust. Just look at this comment section.
The fact remains that OP used Windows for 45 minutes without even noticing. So it is really not that bad as many of you claim it is.
until they revert your settings in the next update. Which happens. And then there’s the privacy invasion and intrusion they represent. You get to use what you want. But this is linuxmemes… you’re going to find more people hostile to MS here than you will in other vague computing forums. MS definitely deserves the hate, though. “Embrace. Extend. Extinguish” is still their motto.
No that does not happen with the ads. Those only appear during a fresh install and can be clicked away in a matter of seconds.
The only thing that happens with is sometimes Edge and recently the search bar once.
MS deserves hate sure, but not the unwarranted hate some of you have here in the comments.
I think it’s pretty warranted. Why would you put ads in my OS in the first place? It’s not a free OS either so no excuse to put ads on it.
Yeah but irrational anger because Micro$oft bad is easier and gets more upvotes
They say they use linux and yet they went 45 minutes without opening a terminal? /doubt
There’s themes to make your OS seem nearly identical to Windows. Maybe they have that.
Or maybe it’s a meme
Exactly, IRL you see the windows boot screen and think I fucked up my grub again