At the risk of being That Guy, Linux has come a long way for gaming and distros won’t pull this crap. Just sayin.
Comment on Xbox consoles getting full-screen ad
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 7 months ago
I legit went, “oh fuck no” at just the headline, and I don’t even have an Xbox.
I’m a PC gamer, and I don’t have words for how pissed off I am about the fact that every time I turn on my PC, the first thing I see before I can run log in in is a screenshot from Starfield and a message to “Play Starfield on Game Pass!” or to get Game Pass. Like. Eff off and let me log in. If I had to see that bs on a console to boot? I’d be screaming.
NOPper@lemmy.world 7 months ago
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Unfortunately I also can’t play the games I spend the most time on, so it’s really only good for single player machines I don’t intend to be MP’ing on.
Basically my travel laptop is a Linux machine now, steam deck of course, but the desktop has to stay windows until anticheat for certain games is GNU/Linux compatible.
mack7400@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And Mint is a good starting point. I’ve had 4/4 Just Works™ installs so far.
cypher_greyhat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m on Win11 and don’t have that. Think you need to turn off “Spotlight Backgrounds” somewhere in settings. While it gives you new backgrounds, it uses it as advertising.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 7 months ago
I would've legitimately sell my xbox on the very same day. It's probably an overreaction, but i'm not looking at ads on my paid xbox with a monthly subscription.
kvadd@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The minute i saw that was the minute i changed away from those types of backgrounds on the login screen. In the control panel you can just change it to anything you want
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you are on windows 10 or early, you can disable those. Not sure about 11. It’s just a few powershell commands.
youngGoku@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you are on Linux… Then you will never have to deal with this.
xenu@kbin.social 7 months ago
Proton really did change the game. I don't even need windows anymore at home.
Carighan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Depends. All it needs is some big distro to ad remote-loaded-image automatic backgrounds to the lock screen, and there you are. Whenever that image swaps to an ad, you’d have it on your lock screen, too.
Don’t misunderstand the ability for advanced users to disable or swap something (because this is trivially disabled on Windows, too) for an inability of companies or even groups of non-commercial volunteers to make shitty user-unfriendly decisions.
youngGoku@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Just because it “could” happen doesn’t mean it will happen.
Also if that happens then you chose the wrong distro
moormaan@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Finally Windows users have a legit reason to use the command line! /s
stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 7 months ago
Windows 11. I went looking for how to turn it off and found out how to turn off all the OTHER ads, but not that one.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
There are a number of registry edits you can make to basically turn Win11 back into Win10, at least from a UI and a “no ads on my login screen” perspective.
Enigma28@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Bloatynosy app Google it grab it from GitHub, run it, select what you want from the recommendations. takes less than 5min in total and makes win 11 pretty great tbh
Carighan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’ve never seen that.
But what I think it happening is that you have your lockscreen background image set to “Windows Spotlight”? The web-based one? That’s usually the nature image in the background of MSN search, too? Because yeah, sometimes MS swaps that out for a full-screen image about a new game release, and that in turn would then also show this on the lock screen.