I was bored at work so chatted with Microsoft support about this.
Summary of funny part
Me: no, it’s an advertisement, asking me to try a Microsoft product. The ad came through my message tray. I have all ad services turned off.
Them: that’s not an ad, that’s recommendation for a better service
Me: are you aware that you just described an advertisement?
Them: yes.
They’re so annoying! I can’t stand that company!
i wish i didnt dislike linux or mac so much also im a gamer so windows is a necessity (but u can game on linux? i play valorant exclusively at this point which isnt linux support afaik)
and no there isn’t a linux distro i might like and if there is i can find it myself linux people are so damn annoying.
Hmm they’ve been really patient and helpful with me so far
Gaming on Linux works quite well. I haven’t found a game that didn’t work, but I haven’t played them all, so I’m sure at least one exists. Also, there absolutely is a Linux distro you would like, but it’s irrelevant if you’re happy on windows. We have a choice of OS, which is a beautiful thing. Lastly, Linux people aren’t “so damn annoying” in the least bit. Stubborn people are, but Linux folks don’t tend to be overly stubborn, I’ve noticed.
E: also, my meme had nothing to do with Linux at all. It’s about being annoyed with ads within windows.
They probably have to recite a standard company line, gritting their teeth as you both know it’s bullshit.
I don’t envy customer service reps. Most of them probably didn’t apply for the job because they love Microsoft or enjoy the prospect of fielding frustrated customers’ calls.
Lmao is that a Lemmy watermark? 💀
Stamp, not a watermark, but yes. There was a post a while back, asking Lemmy OC to have that or something similar. I figured, why not.
Watermarking memes is petty and cringe
Depends on the reason, I suppose. Or the mark. I feel it’s more like attribution, where I attribute this meme as a gift to Lemmy, as opposed to a gift to wherever it finds itself next. No matter where this meme goes, it’s attributed home will always be clear as Lemmy.
Uh oh. I pirated a meme.
Can’t pirate that which is already ours
Nuh uh. It’s not my meme. It’s our meme hahaha
Honestly, I agree… This feels very corporate. Like, this isn’t Tiktok… No, thanks.
It’s been downhill since Windows 7. I think this will be my last Windows PC.
I just don’t feel safe with Windows that next time I boot up there won’t be some fresh horror I didn’t ask for and have to go research how to put back in the bottle.
It’s like having your computer pre-rooted with malware.
Jumping between Mac and Windows I keep accidentally awakening Cortana when I try to copy and paste. Now that god awful, universally reviled feature if finally getting deprecated but it still brings up the damn window/modal/pice-of-shit just to tell me that it’s gone. If you want to be gone, then go! Don’t make a fuss telling me about it. Just go. No one wanted you in the 1st place. Fuck.
This comment has really a really good vibe to it. Like, if comments were essential oils, and if I was a sucker, I’d bottle this comment.
That’s exactly what it is. Defender is removing PUPs (potentially unwanted programs), but only those unwanted by Microsoft, while Windows is installing unwanted programs left and right. Windows is legitimately acting like malware. Not even a joke.
Come join the fight against evil, join those who wish to give you control over the shit you own, go ahead and load https://www.fedoraproject.org/ onto a USB and try it out. Most software either has excellent alternatives, or works fine under Wine!
My daily driver.
mine too, although I use Arch on my PC, i use fedora on my laptop (asahi linux ftw!)
Works on apple silicone! Friggin A!
I mean I liked 7. Last good one imo
Install Linux, problem resolved.
Linux Mint is massively less frustrating to use than Windows 10 or 11
Fedora here, been running Baldur’s Gate 3 no problem using proton. Even with a 2600.
No reason to go back to windows knowing I can run pretty much anything through steam.
Install both! That way you can play all the games you want, if you’re a nerd like me, but you can move the other everyday stuff to Linux!
More games are coming to Linux, it’ll be a while for this process to complete.
That’s what I did well over 20 years ago. Never looked back.
I don’t have personal experience with games on Linux but from what I’m hearing, most games should now work the same on Linux as on windows
Unless it’s unity era Ubuntu
Install kubuntu, KDE rocks and is very easy to understand for windows refugees
Yes, being comoditized by a corporation. True socialism comrade. Truly we’ve seized the means of production.
The means of production have seized us!
In Soviet Russia means of production seize you
- slow clap *
Actually its their🇺🇸. Not your, not our. Its their own and you arr kinda like renting it
Who is “their”?
Microsoft?
The bunny is Microsoft and he’s saying ‘our’
What people here are saying is that if you check the EULA, you’ll see that under section 2. First clause, you are LICENSED to use the software on you device per 1 person only.
There’s also a privacy clause which I find to be an apology by a lion before it eats the Zebra.
Microsoft are gargantuan because they operate like an organized crime family charging protection.
I understand now. I did read the EULA. Years ago, it was the EULA that caused me to Nope out of windows.
Your description of Microsoft is, quite possibly, the best description on how they operate that I’ve ever read.
I mean bunny should be saying “Mine”
Ah, yes. There should be a toddler meme like this! Hahaha
Yeah, I’m confused. Why is there an American flag?
The American flag is the opposite to the Soviet Union s flag.
The first thing you would do after browsing lemmy would be installing linux because there are many foss enthusiasist and linux users playing around here in lemmy making you switch to linux
… Yeah… I never would have considered Linux, then after being here a few months I installed Pop!_os and I will never go back to windows…
*cries in my programs won’t launch in wine*
Which programs?
Yes
This may well be the right answer!
Paint Tool SAI. After messing up a few times (I thought the C drive was my actual windows HD not wine’s virtual one), I got it installed on wine, but it won’t launch. Other people have got it to work, so maybe it’s just me being a dumb noob.
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=4594
I should probably try again with a program that’s less easy to mess up.
Like the other person commented, I would suggest trying Krita (open source/native painting or graphics program. That isn’t my forte, but my understanding is Krita is a professional grade program that is actually used for professional work.
Edit: I ironically found this: https://docs.krita.org/fr/user_manual/introduction_from_other_software/introduction_from_sai.html
With that said, there is a useful program to help setup Wine called “Bottles”. It’s all graphical, and gives tons of options to tweak to try to get programs running. It has dramatically helped me get done other odd professional type software running.
One long shot thing to try: check the file properties of the program installed on wine, and make sure “executable” is enabled. It’s a handy security thing to prevent random files from hiding malware, but can be a pain to new users.
An extreme solution is running a program in a Windows virtual machine. If you go that route, I highly recommend doing some research. The simplest to me solution I’ve found is Virtualbox, and I believe you can even directly pass USB devices through to the virtual machine, but since of the other solutions are supposed to work better.
What version?
Friends don’t let friends drive windows.
I let friends make their own choice. I sport a lovely Fedora and allow them to make their own decisions… Hahaha
Do… Do you use the fedora to greet ladies? I hope so. They love that.
Yeah, but I like to play PC games.
I can only not play 1 or 2 games on Linux. Everything else literally runs native through steam. Use pop_OS it does all the work for you.
Can’t play tarkov, tarkov runs perfect on Linux, but its anticheat does not. The devs of the anti cheat tarkov uses said they are planning Linux support but that was 2 years ago.
Some other odder ones too. Let me know of questions.
Oh this link should be your bible. It will directly tell you what runs, and how well it runs
That’s in fact why I’m a linux user now
Been a Linux user for more than a decade, but work doesn’t do Linux :( I even brought my laptop in to show them that everything works fine (AD and all), but they didn’t go for it.
Their spyware probably doesn’t work on Linux.
They use datto I think as their remote monitoring, and it works on Win, Mac, and Linux. Good guess, though!
LMAOOO
Yeah I can’t imagine my work letting me use linux and that’s with a Linux user for an it guy.
Yeah :(
My friend uses RHEL at work daily. It’s what they use. Lucky duck.
I just got told today to begin Windows 11 build testing at work. No one in the meeting seemed enthusiastic about it even going so far as to make fun of it’s many…issues. Once I’m done getting off Google services, my next move is too divorce Windows like Melinda divorced Bill!
I just wish I wasn’t so good at fucking up Linux on every machine I’ve tried it on.
I just started using Linux at work without telling anyone. On month 2 now and no one has noticed yet. They keep asking how I do all the fancy kde effects on my lappy and to do it to their windows machine. I just say “Sorry it’s a hacked Mac” with an Acer logo on the back lol.
Reminds me of this classic:
You can rice kde like windows 10/11 or anything even like macos there are github pages and youtube videos available. Did you riced it like macos are you talking about that?
No, it’s nothing like anything, I have 3 bars and just the accent color feature from kde. A clean desktop. But none of them own a Mac or have any technological knowledge, so they just believe it.
So why do you tell them it’s a Mac rather than just telling them the truth? Do you think its somehow shameful to use Linux or something?
Well for one, they don’t know about it, and if they don’t know about it, to them it’s probably some experimental piece of tech. And there’s nothing good that’ll come out of explaining it to them, it’s a bother really.
Consider ricing it its really fun and post it here !unixporn@lemmy.ml
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Same here. Bought a laptop a few years ago, and immediately installed manjaro. I wasn’t even going to futz around with dual booting. I decided I was done with windows and their bullshit. Haven’t looked back.
Only linux is “ours”
I serve the soviet gnunion
Omg that is so good in the nerdiest way possible
I serve St. IGNUcious, in the church of emacs
My absolute most hated one is when signing in and using a two factor Authenticator. If you don’t use the Microsoft one. Every time you log in it “recommends” you to use their own. Fuck off.
Before anyone says go Linux. This is a work comp. I use Linux and Mac at home.
Yes! I hate that!!
I won’t tell you to use Linux. I feel that it should be your choice. Like Mac, Linux isn’t for everyone. And if you use Microsoft’s email service on Linux, you’ll have the same anyway. It’s not windows that’s the problem at its core, it’s Microsoft.
Sorry to say it, but Windows never was your operating system. It was always Microsoft’s. You’re just allowed to use it. You just bought a permit.
That’s not true. Windows 3.11 was mine. Well… Not mine, because I couldn’t afford it, but you get it. It also couldn’t connect to the internet, so there’s that…
When you install windows ypu can set timezone to “world” and it will not be there…
You can also avoid making a microsoft account (or logging in) if you log innusing a@a.com and any password.
Then it will say something went wrong but you can continue, by making an offline account
I thought you were kidding, but then I looked it up on the net and it seems this is really a thing. WTF Microsoft!?
This was a work computer, but this world suggestion is genius! I avoid making an ms account by not connecting to the internet during install.
Shift+F10
OOBE/BYPASSNRO
Oh, that’s some BS! I shouldn’t be surprised that they removed the button and require some special task to bring it back. They just more and more act as though they hate their produc–err… customers.
I use the Enterprise SKU of Windows 11 and you can fortunately still use the Domain Join option with that. Comes without that advertisement crap as well. The only caveat is that you can’t really activate Enterprise legally without a subscription and KMS but there are ways to circumvent that issue ;)
This is a bit of misinformation. It only removes the stub shortcuts to installing the bloatware and games. Its a very cheap hack and not as effective as debloating Windows using either the Ameliorated playbooks or Chris Titus’ script tool, which are just about as easy to do while actually being orders of magnitude more effective.
I’ve got a worse one. I was using Windows in a VM the other day and got an ad for Xbox controllers. Basically “check out our new controller colors, click on this notification to go buy one.”
Oh, Microsoft…
I briefly saw that. The second I moused over to remove it it removed itself, like it was guilty for what it had done.
