A Windows pop up, right above the system tray. Holy fuck. I would have screen shot it but I was in disbelief.

  • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
    23·
    11 months ago

    System > Notifications & actions > uncheck/turn off anything you don’t want. (Meaning disable everything because screw them)

    Personalization > Lock screen > turn off fun facts. (Th y are far from fun…nobody cares)

    Personalization > Start > turn off ‘show suggestions occaisionally…’

    Personalization > Taskbar > turn off news and interests if you’re not interested.

    Privacy > General > switch off all 4 things.

    Privacy > go through every single category in the left-hand column and turn off anything you don’t want. (Again, disable it all…)

    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      The amount of tinkering required to get Windows to function as I want is increasing, while the same for Linux is decreasing. Eventually they’ll cross and that’s when I’ll switch.

      • penquin@lemm.eeEnglish
        31·
        11 months ago

        I just used their own firewall to block all the Microsoft ads URLs. I even changed my DNS server to the adguard one so I don’t see ads anywhere. That’s for the one laptop I have with Windows on it. My main desktop and other laptop both run Linux.

      • HughJanus@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        I switched about a year ago. Not because Linux got better, but because MS got worse.

        I’m tired of Cortana. The fact that they try to force Edge onto my PC is absolutely infuriating. And I’m tired of these Windows updates constantly breaking my bug fixes. Never even tried W11 but I hear it’s much worse (unsurprisingly).

        • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I have a little bit of incentive to stay on Windows since all my work is on Windows. The DoD websites I have to access require Edge 90% of the time. One of them actually doesn’t work on anything but Internet Explorer…

      • Vilian@lemmy.caEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        nice, maybe try in a pendrive someday or another just to see how things are going

        • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          0·
          10 months ago

          I did recently. I backed up my boot drive and then loaded a Ubuntu distro. That was a mistake because of the snap store but other than that, it still didn’t work as well as I’d hoped. I had trouble with Lutris installing the blizz launcher and I gave up after an hour of troubleshooting and reverted back to Win10.

          • Vilian@lemmy.caEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            urg blizz launcher, i think heroic launcher could help you with that, but yeah non native software is a pain

            and that’s why you test a pedrive and in dual boot first, so you always have windows to revert, itss anothwr OS after all, if you try again test it in dual boot(and fuck snap lol)

  • intensely_human@lemm.eeEnglish
    92·
    10 months ago

    PSA: hotkey for screenshot in windows 10 is (windowsLogoKey)-shift-S

    Then you click and drag to select a rectangle.

    It’s basically a shortcut to the Snip program.

    After you’ve captured the screenshot, you can:

    • just hit ctrl-V to paste it into any place that can accept a pasted image: email, some chat programs, google drive, Paint, etc
    • Click on the notification in the lower right. If the notification has already disappeared (it fades away after a few seconds), you can click on the Notifications icon (looks like cartoon chat bubble) in lower right and it’s in the list that shows.

    If you click on it in notifications you get a whole window dedicated to editing the screenshot — drawing on it, cropping it, adding text — and then from there you can save it to a file or copy the newly edited image to your clipboard

    • Steal Wool@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Or you could use the shortcut and just press Win+PrtSc

      That’s it your done. There is now an image file saved to your pictures/screenshot folder

    • sfxrlz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      Also works for win11. And also i can recommand windows powertoys and devtoys for all kinds of nifty stuff like renaming multiple files, using one mouse and keyboard over multiple pcs and getting Text out of pictures.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      11 months ago

      I was actually quite happy to pay for Windows all these years… it’s when they went “free” that this BS started. Go back to a paid model and give us vanilla windows, please!

  • Hugh@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    me too while playing Minecraft. now using Ubuntu 23.04, MC with GPU, VS Codium and FF. no problems.

  • ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    01·
    11 months ago

    Happened to me on a recent Windows update too. A popup about Game Pass and a Bethesda game I’m no longer buying.

    • CandyPants@lemmy.mlEnglish
      01·
      10 months ago

      Yep… The same Bethesda game happened to show up in a screensaver. Money grubbing assholes!