A Windows pop up, right above the system tray. Holy fuck. I would have screen shot it but I was in disbelief.

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
    873·
    1 year ago

    System > Notifications & actions > uncheck/turn off anything you don’t want. (Meaning disable everything because screw them)

    Personalization > Lock screen > turn off fun facts. (Th y are far from fun…nobody cares)

    Personalization > Start > turn off ‘show suggestions occaisionally…’

    Personalization > Taskbar > turn off news and interests if you’re not interested.

    Privacy > General > switch off all 4 things.

    Privacy > go through every single category in the left-hand column and turn off anything you don’t want. (Again, disable it all…)

    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      59·
      1 year ago

      The amount of tinkering required to get Windows to function as I want is increasing, while the same for Linux is decreasing. Eventually they’ll cross and that’s when I’ll switch.

      • penquin@lemm.eeEnglish
        231·
        1 year ago

        I just used their own firewall to block all the Microsoft ads URLs. I even changed my DNS server to the adguard one so I don’t see ads anywhere. That’s for the one laptop I have with Windows on it. My main desktop and other laptop both run Linux.

      • Vilian@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        nice, maybe try in a pendrive someday or another just to see how things are going

        • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I did recently. I backed up my boot drive and then loaded a Ubuntu distro. That was a mistake because of the snap store but other than that, it still didn’t work as well as I’d hoped. I had trouble with Lutris installing the blizz launcher and I gave up after an hour of troubleshooting and reverted back to Win10.

          • Vilian@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            urg blizz launcher, i think heroic launcher could help you with that, but yeah non native software is a pain

            and that’s why you test a pedrive and in dual boot first, so you always have windows to revert, itss anothwr OS after all, if you try again test it in dual boot(and fuck snap lol)

      • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        I switched about a year ago. Not because Linux got better, but because MS got worse.

        I’m tired of Cortana. The fact that they try to force Edge onto my PC is absolutely infuriating. And I’m tired of these Windows updates constantly breaking my bug fixes. Never even tried W11 but I hear it’s much worse (unsurprisingly).

        • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I have a little bit of incentive to stay on Windows since all my work is on Windows. The DoD websites I have to access require Edge 90% of the time. One of them actually doesn’t work on anything but Internet Explorer…

      • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        25·
        1 year ago

        Unfortunately, while people tout things like Wine as a fairly simple and easy way to play games on Linux…the fact of the matter is that trying to play games on Linux continues to be absolute hell. Sure, some games work great out of the box. But the majority of games require a shitton of tinkering to even run, and many won’t even work at all. And your specific hardware matters as well.

        I used to dabble in Linux from time to time. And I’m not even a bit gamer or anything, but app incompatibility (especially with games) was one of my biggest gripes with it.

        • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
          6·
          1 year ago

          Lutris and Proton. A large chunk of games work without any manual fiddling at all. Case and point is SteamOS and the Steam Deck. A lot of games just work… and a lot of games that aren’t even valuated just work fine.

        • klangcola@reddthat.comEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          This is a very outdated take. With SteamPlay and Proton most games these days are literally just click Install click Play. The main exceptions are VR and certain competitive games with invasive AntiCheat where the devs has not enabled Linux support.

          These days you should not need fiddle with Wine directly, Proton, Lutris etc should handle Wine for you

        • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          When was the last time you tried to run Linux? The last year has seen incredible progress on that front, thanks to Valve.

          No one uses Wine for games anymore.

    • Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17·
      1 year ago

      It’s absolutely insane how many things need turning off to gain some modicum of privacy with win10, I refuse to upgrade but imagine it’s worse in win11.

      Totally understand the love for Linux. If my audio interface & DAW were compatible I would investigated switching way back. There are other interfaces which appear to be compatible, and other DAWs, but I am highly proficient in the one I’ve used for ~15 years and don’t want to invest time learning a new one; and my audio interface lets me use very, very high end emulations of hardware (UAD).

      Seriously considering Linux for potential future live PA work though. Stability is appealing for live stuff!

      • fessord@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        I’m in the same boat; audio production/composition, otherwise i’d be using Linix too.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
      171·
      1 year ago

      I was actually quite happy to pay for Windows all these years… it’s when they went “free” that this BS started. Go back to a paid model and give us vanilla windows, please!

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
        31·
        1 year ago

        They won’t because they are the industry standard. That’s the problem with tech these days, there is barely any competition

      • Secret300@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        If they lose customers they’ll just try to exploit the few they have left. As more people switch to another OS windows is going to get worse and worse.

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
    112·
    1 year ago

    PSA: hotkey for screenshot in windows 10 is (windowsLogoKey)-shift-S

    Then you click and drag to select a rectangle.

    It’s basically a shortcut to the Snip program.

    After you’ve captured the screenshot, you can:

    • just hit ctrl-V to paste it into any place that can accept a pasted image: email, some chat programs, google drive, Paint, etc
    • Click on the notification in the lower right. If the notification has already disappeared (it fades away after a few seconds), you can click on the Notifications icon (looks like cartoon chat bubble) in lower right and it’s in the list that shows.

    If you click on it in notifications you get a whole window dedicated to editing the screenshot — drawing on it, cropping it, adding text — and then from there you can save it to a file or copy the newly edited image to your clipboard

    • Steal Wool@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Or you could use the shortcut and just press Win+PrtSc

      That’s it your done. There is now an image file saved to your pictures/screenshot folder

    • sfxrlz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also works for win11. And also i can recommand windows powertoys and devtoys for all kinds of nifty stuff like renaming multiple files, using one mouse and keyboard over multiple pcs and getting Text out of pictures.

  • Hugh@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    me too while playing Minecraft. now using Ubuntu 23.04, MC with GPU, VS Codium and FF. no problems.

  • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Happened to me on a recent Windows update too. A popup about Game Pass and a Bethesda game I’m no longer buying.

    • CandyPants@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yep… The same Bethesda game happened to show up in a screensaver. Money grubbing assholes!