Ads in Windows 11 settings are coming next month

Windows 11 is getting out of hand with its push for advertisments, frankly - remember the recent full-screen pop-up to persuade users to install Edge or other Microsoft services? Then another advertisment was placed in the Start menu, and now Microsoft has finally worn my temper thin - with a new Game Pass ad coming to the Settings app.

This will likely arrive in the July update for Windows 11, or at least it’s almost certain to do so. It was present in the latest preview update Microsoft just released for the OS (and quickly paused due to a bug, but that’s another story). It’s also worth noting that the ad has been present in earlier test versions of Windows 11.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
      51·
      4 months ago

      For what, may I ask? Can you give an example? I’m on Debian, arguably a less friendly distro than most, but I haven’t had to touch the terminal in two weeks. And it was just to ping a server somewhere, something you need to do on the command line in Windows as well.

            • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              4 months ago

              Yes it is. You seem reluctant to tell anybody which distro you’re using (even downvoting the person who asked), probably because you know they’d point out that it is in fact there.

              Below I’m showing you how it is on my laptop running GNOME, the most used desktop environment. It’s similarly easy in KDE Plasma and Cinnamon. Even the more niche DEs like Pantheon, Budgie, XFCE, and LXQT have had that functionality for many years.

              Change audio devices

              Switch power profile

              Bonus switch power profile

              I really don’t know why you’re lying about this. The terminal is not something you’d ever need to open for this.

    • kalpol@lemm.eeEnglish
      51·
      4 months ago

      Don’t know what you mean. Have people on opens use here, and they do just fine without the command line.

    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      4 months ago

      You really don’t. I don’t know what on earth you’re doing that requires it.

      And I have to do bullshit like go onto powershell and the heap of shit that is the Windows registry from time to time, too. Shit, you need to enter commands to install windows with an offline account now, it’s insane.

      I wish Microsoft could make Windows as user-friendly as most Linux distros are. It seems like you need to be a computer scientist to use Windows sometimes.