Game ad notification on Windows...
Have to use Windows for work (I've asked), the ads have been getting worse and worse on my work laptop. Today got a game ad notification... That's clearly too far, right? Like I have to clear notifications, so I have to see it
That's because your IT department hasn't turned all that crap off with group policy.
Tthe problem is now if you have the store disabled basic shit, like the ability to open .heic files is broken or use stuff people want like sticky notes is broken.
We turn off most of what we can’t but having the store enabled causes all sorts of stuff.
Also windows 11 has ads baked in even with the store disabled. Plug in a Logitech mouse, get a pop up for their software. Open the picture viewer and get an ad to install some video editor that isn’t clear whether it’s a Ms product or not.
No to mention basic things like copy paste and edit are now weird icons because I guess they think most users are illiterate.
Most of the 11 UI changes are not for the better. Having to beta test it for work is frustrating and I run an IT shop.
Omg I loathe those icons. They are so much harder to use than words, cuz I still have to hover over them to make sure it’s the right thing.
Windows 11, in general, feels so shit after being on Ubuntu.
But I see Linux has decent touchscreen support now so as soon as I’m done at this job, that sucker is getting formatted 😈
Now that I don't use windows anymore, I really want to see how crappy of an OS they can make it. It's fun to watch.
Christ that explains why I can’t open pictures on my work pc, thanks
Funnily I get confused with the copy paste icons than with just text.
To that I would argue why should IT need to waist their time turning that crap off. IT should be off by default.
Yea, I work in a windows shop. All this shit is turned off for any device in our domain. No BYOD either.
Wife started getting these ads as well. Each time she complains I try to hand her my Linux USB drive.
"use my power I beg you!"
That quote is just so good, I need to use it more often
Keep trying! My teen recently bought his first PC. It came with Win11 and I offered to put Linux on it for him. He replied, "Nah, it's OK, I'm not a programmer". I was like... wait, huh? I don't even know where he would get that idea from since the only programming I've ever done was websites and haven't done that in years. Hubby doesn't do much programming any more either. We game on our PCs.... Email. Browse the interwebs. Watch videos. Discord... blah blah. Literally all the same shit our teen does and yet Linux.
Anyways, I waited until he was trapped in the car with me on a longer drive and told him all the wonderful things about Linux and sold it to him on the idea that I'll set it up as dual boot. Give Linux a couple of weeks and if you don't like it, you can always switch to Windows. It's been about a month now and Windows still isn't even installed 😂
I don't understand how this is possible, two parents that use Linux and he thinks Windows is the way to go? Kids in school are actually idiots.
That said, I can't get any of my family to use Linux. My friend tried for a while but asked me to put Windows 10 LTSC on it instead, because he wanted to click "Install" on Steam without worrying about messing with Proton settings and checking ProtonDB, which is reasonable. Some just don't want to do the extra work, I hope some day that operating systems on our favorite kernel make it easy for plebians to use.
Everytime you see an ad for a game, you should ask yourself: "does this run on Linux?" Majority of the time and the answer is yes. Just saying!
Case in point, Deathloop runs nicely on my gaming PC and Steam Deck.
What about Tarkov?
Dunno I play good games
I'm not familiar with this game but if Escape from Tarkov is what you mean, it's not listed in Proton DB. It IS listed in Wine App DB: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=37794
as Platinum with wine-staging 4.2 but that was from like 4 years ago and I don't know what updates the game's had since then.
Only thing I can suggest is dual boot Linux and try it. Since I've only ever dual booted, I'm not so familiar with Linux VMs and containers so I don't know if they'd work or if booting from a live environment USB would be sufficient to test the game with Wine.
If you don't dual boot, asking in one of the Linux Gaming communities might answer that question.
Why not posting this on a windows community? Or is OP expecting those sweet linux circlejerky replies?
OP is actually an Xbox employee doing some very intense guerilla marketing.
Now everyone here knows that Deathloop is out and available on the Xbox app.
Lol
I only see this community when I'm browsing all and it feels like a good chunk of these posts aren't actually about Linux - they're about how Windows is bad
"Check out this thing I had to go out of my way to find"
I HAVE to use Windows (I asked them to let me install Arch on my own machine and the security analysts said no, can you believe it? Don't they know how tech savvy I am?!?)
What gave it away? Lol
It was literally a notification; made a sound and everything. Didn't go out of my way to see it. I'm not used to ads in my operating system so it was jarring. Surprised people accept it as normal
CiRcLeJeRk
Go to Manage Notifications, and turn Suggestions off. Suggestions is what Microsoft calls ads.
Winprivacy.de get it, run it, disable ads and trackers.
winprivacy.de truly rocks.
Nice, never heard of it..
This is by far the funniest marketing strategy I've seen.
Well done.
Surprised I've not seen anyone mention shutup10. Been using it on all new installs for me and family since migrating from 7 to 10 Turn off anything you want, including all that bullshit and the data mining etc. https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
No one has mentioned it because they're dealing with a laptop from work they have no say over
But yes, for everyone on personal devices, it seems to be pretty nice. I've been using privacy.sexy for a while, but it can't seem to do much without breaking things.
You can turn the entire notification system off. The fucking thing is pointless anyway.
On a personal rig? Heck yes.
On a work laptop? Uhhh not too sure about that... sinkholing Teams, Outlook and Devops notifications sounds like a quick way to lose track of visibility
Microsoft know exactly what they're doing with their spyware and adware walled garden 😔
I’m this close to swapping my gaming rig to Linux for similar reasons.
Nobara
Can't up vote this enough, Nobara is great for gaming.
+1
Honestly, distro really doesn't matter much. The things you probably want to set up for gaming can be done with pretty much any distro (e.g. lower latency kernel / Liquorix / zen, driver installs (if using nvidia). Otherwise it's just about what the distro includes by default, but rolling your own setup starting from any distro is easy and not time consuming.
This is the way.
Had very few issues on it, and most was just me never having attempted a Linux gaming build.
Do it. Gaming was the only reason preventing me from switching to the Linux side, until Itried and found out that literally every one of my games work on Linux, sometimes even better than on windows.
Do it
What's stopping you? Just out of curiosity.
Do it. You won't look back.
The reason Linux gamers have a tendency to constantly talk about Linux gaming is because it is so, so much more ready and easier than most Windows folks even realize. It constantly feels like people sticking on Windows are just missing something.
The only reason I have a Windows PC is because GeForce Now doesn't have a 4K client in anything but Windows.
I assume you've looked into this, but sharing it just in case.
I'd also suggest just trying to run the Windows client under Proton as an alternative.
I use windows 11 pro, and I don't see any of these ads anywhere ever. Is that something the home versions only do? Did I turn off some setting proactively at setup that prevents the ads?
I have seen it om our company pro ;nstall before, and also not, so maybe it is group policy controlled
So is that a personal laptop your using for work or a work laptop? Because if it's the latter, they're doing a terrible job setting policies and turning crap off with either GPO or some DSC system.
It's a work laptop We're a small company - I still feel like calling our IT terrible instead of Microsoft is misguided though
One of the reasons you shouldn't be using Ubuntu. Not one of the reasons you shouldn't be using Linux.
What else did you expect from Microsoft Linux? They've been taking notes from the best for some time now.
Jesus Fuck Ubuntu
Is that real? I’ve seen the Ubuntu pro ad in the terminal, but never anything like this. (Not saying the Ubuntu pro ad is ok. I need to migrate my server)
Yeah, Ubuntu has been consistently pissing me off. Just not enough to go distro hopping yet. The worst part for me is that apt now tells you that you are missing some security updates to temp you into buying whatever their service is. Great, thanks. Maybe I'll try KDE Neon or Pop! OS soon.
There are ads in Windows?
Yes they are going to fill windows with ads as far as I've understood correctly
It looks like ads from the Xbox app (could be wrong)
M$: "Windows is the best OS for gaming!!!"
Ok, fine. From now on ONLY my gaming PC will run windows, and my gaming PC is GeForce Now.
M$: "No! Not like that!"
Is this an American thing? Save for the awful downgraded solitaire with micro transactions I’ve never had any ads on Windows.
I got a notification advertising Minecraft the other day. I'm positive I have all the settings about suggested content turned off. At least you can disable notifications per app, this one was from "Suggested".
Same here, it was all supposed to be off. First thing I do everytime i have to deal with Windows.
Dont forget to install candy crush when it prompts you to do so.
Never had anything like that on either my personal (two of them) or work W11 installs, nor on my girlfriend's personal or work installs, so I don't know where the complains about adverts come from, I've never seen them 🤷
Well, you've seen it now
Well that person need to get their fingers out of their ass and stop farming karma, because clearly if I don't see them without any effort then I don't know how they manage to run Linux instead of Windows 'cuz that sure does require effort!
I've never seen these.
(but my windows install is clean and debloated to my needs so... yeah not very fair)
Got another... think I have "suggestions" (ads) disabled now
That’s because your it department either sucks or just doesn’t have time to fix this. Windows can be made to be great for work environments, as evidenced by 80% of all workers who use a computer using a windows computer
Lol I had to install AutoHotKey just to be able to do some basic keymapping on Windows. "Can be made good" is so different than "is good"
But yes our IT team is just one dude with a degree in biology
That does not mean Windows is great in a work environment, it just means the IT department can't or won't support 2 OSs (or 3 if some of your officemates are allowed to use a Mac).
