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Popups? Were they using windows seven with grandma's internet explorer? Popups
Open Edge on a fresh win 11 install
-give us your data
-Bing is great!
-please try Edge
-get our rewards
-Bing AI!
-don’t change the bloated ad-filled home page please
-oh god please stop downloading Firefox
That's true, it sucks. Although that happens once and it's done. But I always have to find ways of making gnome usable, like where is the minimize button? It's nice using linux, I'd love to. But the thing is I'm not saying windows is good, I'm saying linux is complete shit too. Everything has some dumbass issue or other and it's on the cusp of breaking. And we have to use all of the crap
Is Linux perfect? Absolutely not and I have never made that claim.
My point was merely that Windows users are bombarded with popups from the start and Microsoft are only going to get more aggressive with their monetisation practices.
Im annoyed about stuff all the time on Linux but rarely do I feel the seething rage I get when Windows tries to push ads on me. On an OS I fucking paid for.
Yeah, that's fair. It's just that for some reason I don't get ads at all, maybe because I use w10, or maybe because I'm in the poor world so ads don't make sense maybe.