Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Settings homepage - gHacks Tech News
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Microsoft launched a new build to the Windows 11 Insider Dev channel on Friday and with it comes a Game Pass ad in Settings.

The writing is on the wall–I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.

  • TDCN@feddit.dk
    3·
    6 months ago

    How long before the majority of game development is defaulting to Linux/Unix instead of windows? Getting native Linux games to run on windows is only becoming easier and easier with WSL? To me it seems like less of a hastle than trying to go the other way like we do today with proton and wine. Can someone enlighten me?

    • Michael H. Jenkins@infosec.pubOP
      2·
      6 months ago

      I’m naive enough to think it would happen faster if there were more market demand, but that’s likely my 1990s programming failing to adjust to the 21st century.

      • TDCN@feddit.dk
        1·
        6 months ago

        In my naive mind the steam deck is a huge motivating factor for developers to go directly to native Linux games. In reality it’s probably given only little a consideration.

    • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
      2·
      6 months ago

      According to Steam’s own survey, Linux is still less than 2% of the user base and it doesn’t look like it’s changing much. I don’t know how it has looked historically though but probably not too much different.

      Realistically speaking, it’s only a small percentage of people who bought the Steam Deck, and they probably already had a gaming PC, which means they probably had a Windows PC.

      So unfortunately, I don’t think Linux gaming is anywhere close.

  • Blizzard@lemmy.zipEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage.

    They are saying like they just invented something amazing, yet they are just pushing a fucking ad.

    The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC.

    How would you know what we actively do on our PCs, huh? Huh???

    Good news is that you can turn off most ads, including app promotions in Windows 11’s start menu.

    For now, but you have to be extremely naive to believe they don’t plan to change this as soons as they reach a certain number of users. They already did things like that in the past.