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Windows is not “fine” aside from all the non-UI stuff, they’re UI is annoying and slow to me, they moved things behind extra clicks/commands to make it “clean”- stuff I actually use.
And then there’s the whole tracking usage to drop adds in your notification thing… which is a privacy nightmare.
I mean I'm cheering for Linux adoption too, but I've never received an ad beyond the initial install crapware app stubs. I do a sweep on the system settings, clean the junk, and I'm off to the races.
For the unsuspecting users, the privacy concerns are quite bad though.
I keep seeing ads in my notifications on my windows installation for windows store items or bing.
Out of curiosity, do you have a screenshot? Unless I have always been the B/control group in A/B testing or something, it sounds super weird.
https://i.postimg.cc/NB5Lp7ZS/195124.png Its right here with the most recent update, and no obvious way to remove them. I don't want OneDrive, I don't want Office 365. Get it out of my face.
Truly atrocious smh
That's not the notification tray, though? I mean bleh but you have to go searching for that, and it is somewhat relevant given that most users are logged into their MS account, and this is the accounts settings page... am I missing something?
No, I only boot into windows when I game, so its been a couple days since I've gotten one of the notifications.