Glad i shifted to linux about a year ago, so far so good!
I still don’t understand how this is any different from the “recomended” in the past? Nobody in these articles actually explains the change, they just say the same “It’s here now” and don’t even show a screenshot of it. Maybe if they’re nice they say how to turn off “recommended”.
Literally 5 seconds in Google to find how to disable. No need to dig into Group Policy or the Registry.
Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off the toggle for “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.”
Same setting that controls a lot of the anti consumer shit I’ve been seeing articles about lately, like it trying to force you onto a Microsoft Account when you have a local one. Do yourself a favor and just skim through the Settings menus and disable any settings related to reccomendations. They mean ads.
It’s bullshit that Microsoft keeps pulling this shit, but the setting is straightforward as hell. Plus, I’ve never had this setting reset itself due to updates (yet).
That is what everyone has been waiting and longing for!
I wonder how they decide what ads to put there
I’ll keep using Windows as long as programs like Open Shell and OSSU are able to deal with the bullshit. But if there comes a day when they no longer work…well, Linux awaits.
With the fact that I can run WSL and Docker Desktop, while the performance differences between Proton vs native windows drivers during gaming are orders of magnitude different, it’s still hard to justify, and this is coming from someone who daily drives a Chromebook running Arch linux and owns Android phones.
I stopped using windows a while ago and have noticed no dip in performance while running the same hardware
I’ve not found many instances where performance in terms of frames per second is worse. If anything on linux it’s more stable with less dropouts.
But, for whatever reason there’s definitely more latency (NVidia 3080 here) when playing for example CS:GO (not tried since CS2 though) on Linux compared to Windows. Not sure where it is being added (possibly the compositor?) but it is definitely noticeable. If I move from playing on Linux to windows I’ll overshoot when aiming for example.
