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    Look what they need to mimic a fraction of our unshittified experience (sh.itjust.works)
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    I can't believe a paid OS needs a tool like this. Here's a GUI tool called OFGB (Oh Frick Go Back) to remove all the ads in Windows 11. It's understandable if a free OS or app needs ad support, but this is just crazy github.com/xM4ddy/OFGB

    [Screenshot Of a GUI Tool To Removes Ads From Various Places Around Windows 11]

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    [–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    It boggles my mind how many Windows users refuse to switch to something else and insist on patching together Microsoft's intentionally broken excuse of an operating system...

    [–] BigPotato 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    The usual, I would but games (and proprietary software for work)

    I run a Linux machine literally next to my Windows desktop and yeah it's 98% for my daily usually but that's still a week worth of "Not working" for my year.

    Fallout 3 was hard enough to get working on Windows many moons ago but even with all the "Use Lutris" or "Use Heroic" cries, it'd be easier to run a whole Windows VM than to get it running natively and in the forty minutes of time I have to game, I'd rather just play the game sometimes.

    So, if I have to play in their Sandbox, I'm gonna shit in it first so they don't try to come play too.

    Plus, VR and all that.

    [–] cybersandwich 9 points 7 months ago

    That's why my windows partition is still in regular use. I play apex legends. It used to play flawlessly on pop is but over a year ago at this point it started screwing up.

    I'd usually be able to get it working after a while, but when I have 30-45 minutes or maybe an hour at most to game, I don't want to spend all of it "fixing". I'd rather restart into windows and be playing in a minute.

    [–] z00s 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Sometimes you don't know how bad your ex really is until you're in a new relationship

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

    😔 ain't that the truth

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

    For me it's simply laziness, and the fact that I don't use the OS apart from explorer. I think that's the thing for a lot of people the actively use so few parts of the OS that the question wether the OS is intrusive, bloatware free or efficient isn't part of their concern. They, me included, don't tinker, don't optimize, don't script etc. I just start the programs thati use. I probably will give Linux another go with my next PC build though.

    [–] Theharpyeagle 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    The truth is that most people don't really care. A lot of them don't even know what an OS is, they just need a machine that lets them browse the internet, write documents, and maybe play some games. An ad is maybe an annoyance to them, but not one that's going to make them install a new OS. It's not because they're dumb or ignorant, it just doesn't rank that high on their list of priorities (even if we think it should). I think being in these communities kind of makes us forget that a lot of people don't think that much about tech.

    I do think that easy to install/use Linux distros could one day start changing some minds, but that distro won't be one that's popular with current Linux users. You'd basically need something that very rarely requires you to touch a terminal, even for troubleshooting, because that's where people will nope right out.

    On the other hand, this is why stuff like that "look at all the data Google has on you" video are important. For us it's a yeah duh moment, but the average Chromebook user probably has no idea and is rightly surprised about it. Reach people in terms they can understand.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

    Absolutely this. 99% of people I know never want to touch a terminal, and I don't blame them. They've been shown that what they want to do can be simple, why would they settle for less? Something really big needs to happen for them to change browser, let alone a whole OS.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

    The devil you know vs the devil you don't, I guess. Comfort etc.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

    Lol right I saw a post about tiny11 iso I was like wtf thats way harder then just installing linux. Microsoft got people brainwashed