I’m just glad both hands are on the phone…but yeah, I’d be moving somewhere else or something.

I’ve probably had less then a dozen web ads in the last year, I’ve blocked them as much as possible.

My main issue is I paid for Windows and still get ads, its annoying. But I comprehend your perspective. It wouldn’t have bothered me as much if a “Do not remind me again” option was there.

I’ll give that a try, thank you.

I think I would trust an unknown 3rd parties ISO more then the stock Windows at this point really…

I literally do not have anything extra turned on, including the Insider Program has always been off. Other then automatic updates, so your guess is as good as mine as why “Preview” updates or otherwise would be pushed. It’s not that I’m enrolled in beta or anything.

Completely agree.

I’d bet that most of us are using grey market OEM keys or reusing a license we’ve had upgraded from a previous install.

• It’s a hard number to figure out, maybe but I personally don’t know anyone since Windows 7 reusing licenses. But overall, a good point.

yet those are the very same people that are likely subscribing to Office365, not changing their default browser from Edge, and not installing an adblocker.

• This is another number hard to figure out. It seems to me most people who do complain about people being okay about it have at least something implemented which is still better then nothing. At least they are aware, most of the people I come across either A) Don’t even think about it, aren’t aware or B) They are aware and use at least something to reduce it.

are all good things from a general user perspective.

• Yes, I agree many of these services may be beneficial to general users who don’t have anything already. My issue is this is all covered during setup and I went out of my way to disable all the services possible, especially a Microsoft account but it keeps pushing for it…at least add a “Don’t remind me again” or something.

I wish MS would release a SKU which was targeted towards the tech enthusiast

• Yes, that would be ideal and it may be a product sold but from a business stand point I think most would still stick with using scripts etc for removing/disabling. So I could see why not.

I understand, the only options I see is added from update or triggered by the update as I’ve never gotten this window before and it restarted to this screen like I had to do it.

I do believe there is a up tick in Linux users these days, probably not enough though. The main downside the the popular use of Windows in business, if they get converted Microsoft would probably really struggle even with their other markets.

Is there a way to put alt text in lemmy? I could see the benefit especially for screen readers. I could only see putting it in the content section right?

What Distro? I use Ubuntu and sometimes tails for personal use. This weekend, I think I’m just going to setup a Windows VM instead and maybe try out Quebes if I can get that to work.

I only NEED it for a couple low resource applications, hell maybe it’ll run in wine.

Primarily for drivers and security updates.

You have a point, I could turn off updates and manually update as I need too but my frustration is that there are ads in the first place.

Yeah, I’m going to see about Quebes or just running VM inside Ubuntu at this point.

Thanks for the recommendation, I’ll have a look!

Yeah, I did give them a try at one point primarily for windows login but too many privacy concerns and yes, I agree their products don’t work for me either. Especially OneDrive and Edge has always been a pain coming built in.

The only thing I can think of is having it selected to automatically install the latest updates, I haven’t signed up or enabled anything else. Is that why its preview?

Okay, nice! Good information!

I did already have this turned off, and it still pops things up like this and trying to get me to sign into a Microsoft account. It’s just annoying and they don’t provide an option to skip or don’t remind me again which makes it even worse.

I’m curious about this as well. I have used Libreoffice for years without an issue. My understanding as always been that Microsoft Office products just have more advertising and so many people got/get trained in it that it’s just easier then to learn it differently to use LibreOffice software.

I was not aware there was anything missing, other then maybe the cloud. I do know smaller businesses and even some schools who have swapped to LibreOffice but usually overseas, outside the US.

Several things always installed, it’s annoying really lol