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Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising (www.techradar.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (8 children)

Guys, I'll switch in a heartbeat to a Linux OS if any one you can recommend a stable OS that works on a Surface Go 2. It should support its touchscreen, of course, and a Surface Pen. Plus, a FOSS alternative to Journal would be stellar

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

I've been running Bazzite on an old 1st gen Surface Book Pro that I had laying around. Touch screen and all the fancy keyboard stuff works great.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Have you looked into Mint?

The linux mint forums make it seem like it works out of the box. I know that it worked out of the box for my Thinkpad x380, even the touchscreen, pen, and screen rotation.

[–] ordellrb 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Same on my thinkpad y370

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Same on my e6520 latitude

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Do you really need a custom kernel for the surface devices?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I don't. But the person I replied to said they were having trouble with Linux on a surface.
So, that's a project dedicated to Linux on surfaces. I would presume they had tried the usual distros and found them lacking

[–] maxinstuff 6 points 5 months ago

I'm running Ubuntu on a Surface Laptop Studio. I really like it, though I have not yet gotten the touchscreen and pen working.

If I figure it out (and I remember) I'll let you know.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Idk Journal but you can give Xournal a try, it works pretty well and you can arrange all the buttons to your liking

https://xournalpp.github.io/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Idk man but try OpenSuse, It's pretty cool. Here is the review that make me install it

[–] madcaesar -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mint is the only version you have a chance of liking if you are coming from windows. I know windows sucks and people low to pump Linux but most distros simply aren't user friendly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks for the insight. I tried my hands at Kubuntu on an old laptop of mine and didn't mind the few differences too much. From what I've heard on Lemmy, Mint seems to be a good all-around suggestion for new Linux users, though