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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Just reading up on all the stuff about more adverts coming to Windows 11 on my nice and clean Linux desktop:

17 April at 15:21 | Open on mastodon.social
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I’m Tired And Everything Hurts

@gamingonlinux I have no idea why people put up with that trash

17 April at 15:24 | Open on topspicy.social
__Miguel_

@guffo @gamingonlinux For most, i assume it's the only thing they know, plus they don't know how to install Linux, since the vast majority of PCs come with Windows installed, and most software they use is Windows-only or Windows-first.

Meaning you have A LOT of people that just think it's normal, think it's not normal but can't do anything about it, or want to do something about it but don't know how.

And of course it doesn't help that Apple is the same or worse, and the amount of FUD being thrown around about Linux for the desktop is just obscene.

@guffo @gamingonlinux For most, i assume it's the only thing they know, plus they don't know how to install Linux, since the vast majority of PCs come with Windows installed, and most software they use is Windows-only or Windows-first.

Meaning you have A LOT of people that just think it's normal, think it's not normal but can't do anything about it, or want to do something about it but don't know how.

17 April at 15:37 | Open on tech.lgbt
I’m Tired And Everything Hurts

@nanianmichaels @gamingonlinux Agreeing with all that. I'm being flippant obviously, but it really does seem like Windows is an exercise in seeing how far they can push the crapness without people jumping ship.

17 April at 16:12 | Open on topspicy.social
__Miguel_

@guffo @gamingonlinux That's the whole process of enshitification in a nutshell.

Unfortunately.

17 April at 16:13 | Open on tech.lgbt
Benjamin

@guffo @gamingonlinux BuT it's WhAt EvErYoNE iS uSiNg!!1!

17 April at 15:40 | Open on mstdn.games
Crampi
I’m Tired And Everything Hurts

@crampi @gamingonlinux I used to have a Windows partition for a couple of games I couldn't get working on Linux but EVERYTHING I want to play works in Proton now. It is the best of times!

I remember when your options for gaming on Linux were: Quake 3 Arena, Neverwinter Nights, Alpha Centauri, and Tux Racer.

17 April at 16:10 | Open on topspicy.social
Jan

@gamingonlinux Wait didn't Ubuntu innovate putting advertisements in your desktop?

17 April at 15:39 | Open on mastodon.social
Vertana

@Fenrasulfr @gamingonlinux While true (it was Amazon), it’s one example on one distro where it was very easily remedied (just remove the package).

This situation wasn’t good in the eyes of lot of people including myself, but it’s just not comparable to all the things MS is doing to Windows.

Also, your Ubuntu example is from 2012.

17 April at 15:52 | Open on infosec.exchange
voytrekk

@gamingonlinux Ads in Windows was the final straw that convinced me to switch. It's nice to have full control over what is installed on my system instead of getting "suggested" shit added like on Windows.

17 April at 15:42 | Open on mastodon.world
ancilevien74 ☮ ⏚ 🔻 ⸮⸮

@gamingonlinux
I should migrate from windows 10 to linux soonish.
But I'm not sure what distrib to use.
I'm using my computer for web, playing videos, ssh-ing to my server.
I like to use the latest version of app, but I'm not going to recompile a kernel.
I like zsh + oh-my-zsh, and I know how to exit from vim 😜
I'm under the impression that ubuntu is on the road to enshittification.
So maybe something else in the debian universe to recommend?

17 April at 17:50 | Open on piaille.fr
Q. Edwards
Kevin Russell

@gamingonlinux

Its an offer. A suggestion. Its a gift. Its not required to be on linux. You may need the OS for a proprietary app, you might fear disobedience and registry corruption, you may love the Joy of Tidying Up that defragging for 8 hours brings. Its ok, cool people use windows, some of them because they want to. You are not judged for using windows.

When people offer linux its a damp towel for hair on fire, not finger pointing.

The spread of MS Malware was coerced, no blame.

17 April at 20:58 | Open on mstdn.social
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