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Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu.

Luckily you can disable these ads, or “recommendations” as Microsoft calls them. If you’ve installed the latest KB5036980 update then head into Settings > Personalization > Start and turn off the toggle for “Show recommendations for tips, app promotions, and more.” While KB5036980 is optional right now, Microsoft will push this to all Windows 11 machines in the coming weeks.

Microsoft’s move to enable ads in the Windows 11 Start menu follows similar promotional spots in the Windows 10 lock screen and Start menu. Microsoft also started testing ads inside the File Explorer of Windows 11 last year before disabling the experiment and saying the test was “not intended to be published externally.” Hopefully that experiment remains very much an experiment.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm on 10 still. (And if I wasn't a gamer and sucker for games that don't work on Linux - I would be on Arch)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Proton works wonderfully these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

The cope iv heard from friends that this is okay behavior

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

And they called Google scroogle😆

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I just can't stand the lack of hibernation or hybrid suspend on laptops with Linux. Otherwise I'd much rather have a Linux distro on my nice laptop and windows in a VM if at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You're joking, right?

My computer is set to 1. Warn me at 9.25 to accept or cancel suspension at 9.30. 2. Set volume to 10% and suspend at 9.30 (just in case it gets woken up, I once woke it up at 4am and had a radio application wake up the family). 3. RTC Wake set to 5.59 4. 6.25am my wakeup music plays.

I have suspend, also hybrid - where it will suspend, and after a certain time (useful for laptops, mine's set for 12 hours so I never hit this unless I go on holiday) it'll hibernate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I would be very surprised to hear that your distro does all that by default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Running Opensuse, suspend/hibernation works fine. Older hardware though

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Both of those work on Linux. https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Most distros ship with hibernation disabled and they have since Ubuntu 10.04 or so if my memory serves correctly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

You just need to allocate enough swap space for hibernation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if some distros disable it for some reason.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

It is disabled in the default configuration because you need enough swap space to enable it - which is an overkill amount of swap for any other use case.

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