I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don’t even use chrome, i’ve switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10
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" Microsoft Service Agreement"
/shudder
Get Firefox. Problem solved!
This also shows if you have Firefox, source: someone that only uses Firefox and got this message today.
It’s shit like this that will eventually drive me away from windows. I was baffled when it appeared.
As someone who was recently driven, leave it. It’s never going to get better, only worse. And linux is only going to get better the more you understand it.
will eventually
no time like the present, eh ;)
Idk man I’m pretty busy… With… Something less tedious than installing an operating system lol
You’d be surprised. Ubuntu is basically download it for free onto USB drive, plug in USB drive, start computer, choose to start Ubuntu from drive, try it out, if you like it click install, and you’re done.
+1 on this recommendation. Live distros are definitely the best way to dip your toe in the Linux desktop world without accidentally wrecking your system.
Something less tedious than installing an operating system lol
Jeez. I remember 25 years ago when we reinstalled Windows every 6 months to a year or so as a matter of course. It was literally recommended to do so because of the buildup of cruft and garbage. These days, people can’t be bothered to download an iso and press a few “next” buttons.
I’m not going to try and argue that I’m not being lazy, but the actual process of installing the OS is the least onerous part. Software beats it by a mile.
The penguin is patient and will welcome you when you have the fish / time.
If you are unsure i’d personally would also advice you to start with a dual-boot setup, so you can always temporary switch back if you get frustrated with something (or are under pressure from outside forces to get something done) and dont know how yet.
Normally when you return later with a clear head you’ll likely be able to find a solution to your problem that doesnt require you to switch the OS.
Just a suggestion.
Have a nice day anyways!
Once upon a time I dual booted every computer I had. Not sure why I fell out of the habit really.
Sorry but I only use brave
Edit: OP is about search engines and not browsers. Can’t you guys read?
Which is Chrome under the hood.
How can a search engine be “Chrome under the hood”?
How can a search engine be “Chrome under the hood”?
They’re in the frakkin browser!
They’re in the frakkin browser!
Lol, this got me by the bubu.
The Brave browser is based on Google’s Chromium. Presumably they thought you meant the browser and not the search engine
Eww I’m not touching any browsers based on Chromium
Well that leaves Firefox (and it’s forks, too many to list) and safari to choose from.
Chrome, brave, edge, opera, vivaldi and a few more I can’t remember are based on chromium
Edit: realized my mistake about opera and vivaldi
Back in my day we had to sacrifice a robot to get Netscape Navigator to dial the internet.
Still better than Internet Explorer.
I remember those days. For that matter I remember when the internet didn’t exist. You wanted to talk to more than one person we had party lines on the landline phones and you had to know who you were talking to in order to call or add them to it.
Opera sold its soul some years ago. It is also chromium based.
I keep hearing this but can’t find any basis for this
There’s always Lynx. Browse the web like it’s 1988.
I forgot about that one. But a lot of people on the web won’t use it since it’s not as “innovative as the others” to them.
😬
If governments actually gave a fuck about antitrust anymore, it would be. 20-ish years ago, they dragged Microsoft to court over simply bundling IE with Windows. It didn’t even constantly nag you to set as default; just the fact that it was bundled at all was enough to make it into the sights of regulators.
Dumb question but how would you get your browser of choice if they didn’t include one from the jump?
At the time, you’d get a disk from a store or order it from a magazine or whatever. I don’t really know what the solution would be now since those aren’t things though. I guess get one from a friend or another device?
I believe it contained multiple browser installers and let you pick one.
If they didn’t bundle safari on a mac or firefox on linux, there are terminal commands to install firefox and chrome on both.
There is a command for windows via their built in package manager apparently, but I can’t confirm that.
Yea, winget is the build in windows package manager.
I started using that pretty frequently and a lot of software is on it, though it does lack some features like version pinning.
There is a website to explore the available packages at winget.run, which makes it a bit easier to use.
Cd or usb
This shit is why I stopped using windows altogether
I hate this so much but I want to call out the Google and Apple are just as bad. I used edge for a while and I constantly got popups on every Google owned website telling me how great Chrome is and that I should switch, it was even worse than what you get from Windows telling you to use Edge. And don’t even get me started about Safari on iPhones…
It’s getting REALLY difficult to tell normal operation and viruses apart.
Is this an attack or a Windows update?
I think you’re confusing virus and malware. Windows is malware by definition. I think according to gnu philosophy any proprietary software is malware because features are designed to make profits and not to service the end user.
thanks again Richard
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Because in all practical senses, windows is a virus.
Viruses at their core are programs which do things against your will on your own machine. Which is bad.
However, that is exactly what windows does. But like the boiling frog, people for some reason are okay with more bullshit from Microsoft and less control of their own devices with every passing update and year.
Complaining on
redditsocial media does nothing. Switching to Linux gives you back control and will be better for everyone in the long run.Who’s complaining on Reddit?
Plenty of people, but I’m not sure why they would bring it up here on Technology@lemmy.world of all places.
This isn’t reddit?
“Microsoft rewards points” wtf?
Those are one of the few Microsoft offerings that are actually good. I’ve been rolling free Game Pass Ultimate for years (with 2+ more in the bank) thanks to MS Rewards.
Wait what? That’s pretty cool!
I’m not entirely sure how I’m earning Microsoft reward points, but they keep sending me $10 Amazon gift cards for them so… that’s cool anyway.
They lost a trial in this allnd paid a flick on the wrist.
They just so this because they know it will get them more than it will cost.
Install Linux, make the switch. Yes you can.
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I’ve used Mint for a couple of years now. Gaming has never been better on Linux. It’s not perfect and there are still a lot of issues with games that use intrusive anti cheat. It depends on what you like to play. COD type games you may have issues with but almost every single player game works these days. Some times it will require a little fiddling to be fair but generally it only takes 10 min to check what’s required. Protondb is your friend if you want a good idea of whether it will work before buying
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Get kubuntu or fedora. The desktop is KDE which feels a lot like windows but nicer and prettier.
If you game on PC, you’re going to have a bad time.
Valve has pretty much solved this issue for 99% of games. It used to be true, but not anymore.
Downvoters big mad that valve single-handedly made the average person even consider linux to game.
Too bad the 1% are the games I play the most with my friends.
Yeah and you can’t play Zelda if you don’t have a Switch. Your 1% bullshit is kind of a ridiculous talking point, just saying.
What? I’m just responding to the guy who claimed you can play 99% of games. I didn’t make it up myself as an accurate number.
I think it is close to 75% actually. That does not change the fact that you pulled your anecdote out of your ass. There will always be some game on some system or OS that can’t be played. The Steam Deck offers by far the most and I don’t even own one so I have no stake in it.
Are you high?
No you’re not. That was 5-10 years ago.
How does stuff like DLSS or similar work with Proton? I remember reading once that it wasn’t a straight forward process. That was a few years ago though, I don’t know if it’s changed (or if I misunderstood what I read — always a possibility).
I suppose it doesn’t matter much to me in the medium term, as I use mission-critical software while WFH, which is Windows only. But Linux-ifying my setup is something that always sounds appealing if I can get over the hurdles.
I don’t know about DLSS specifically as I don’t have a Nvidia GPU but AMD FSR works fine as long as you use a somewhat new version of Proton. (And FSR isn’t limited to AMD GPUs)
Not the full answer but an encouraging detail, thanks for the info!
Gaming on Linux has never been easier OR better and it’s constantly improving.
Since everybody on this comm seem to be circlejerking, let me how to tell you how to get rid of this POS. Shit’s called BGAupsell and resides in Windows\Temp\MUBSTemp, set yourself as owner of the file via your admin account and then delete it and replace it with an an empty EXE file that you assign ownership to yourself with. Then you write protect it and you’re done. If you just delete the dir or the file, it’ll come back next major update.
NOW, to really give MS a punch in the dick, you’re also going to want to disable the search menu ad as well:
https://www.howtogeek.com/826967/how-to-disable-bing-in-the-windows-11-start-menu/
And all of you fucking *nux newfargs, grow up. Also, don’t fucking drink and root you lusers.
The internet needs more people like you.
Excellent instructions, nice clear and to the point.
Nah it doesn’t. He is being a dick. You probably can Google that. He missed the point of the entire topic. Nobody was positing how to remove it because this topic wasn’t about that. If someone would have asked about it in the first place people would probably have provided solutions.
And then again, next update. Cat. And. Mouse.
It’ll work until they do something else. It’s the same old shit as always, update and pray that it holds together and that by the Torvalds none of your fucking repos are deprecated or out of date.
Edit: Hit a fucking nerve with that one haha. Rage harder n00bs. Downvotes don’t mean shit here. Go back to Reddit you fucking losers.
Meaning? That you need to update software? Of course you do. Even on Linux. But when you do you don’t have to reboot, for example. Minor difference caused by a smart filesystem versus whatever the fuck windows uses these days.
They mean Microsoft will keep sneaking things like this into updates. We can stop them installing misfeatures if we know they’re coming but Microsoft can at any time just roll out a new update with different adverts in. Unless we stop updating there’s no way for us to select between legit updates and unwanted ads.
Yeah. Install Linux, problem solved.
Or you just install Linux and be done with it.
Yes, I am THAT guy. It looks and feels like windows, but prettier, nicer, and better. No more corporate rules bullshit, no more anti virus bullshit, no more bullshit.
Yes, most games do work now.
Yes, most windows software has equal or better alternatives, or run natively through wine.
You don’t have to put up with Microsoft bullshit.
Get rid of office, Hotmail and teams while you’re at it and get working software.
*facepalms in having told the newbie not to drink and root*
You’re the reason most of us don’t really tell others that we run Linux.
Because…? I’ve used Linux on desktop for over 20 years now. Yes. I have a multi monitor (3 monitors) setup with a cool looking 3d desktop (bling mostly to show off, make people come for the bling, stay for the awesome computer experience) and I’ve loved every minute of it.
Every single time I see another one of these posts I tell people to come to Linux, we got cookies
Have fun with your digital Stockholm syndrome and corpo mindshare.
Man, people like you are why we have to call it GNU/Linux. You have no core principles.
Yeah, you clearly are a newbie if you missed the obvious flag that my username presents. I’m a fucking old sysop you nimrod. I know Win, *Nux, Netware not because I want to know, but because my fucking job requires me to know. And you know what you figure out after a while of messing around with all of the crap that exists? Nothing is pure.
So yeah, you be 16 year old me and repeat my own mistakes. Rant about corpo crap without even knowing what a job is. Rant about fucking principles when you still afford them. Also give me the spiel about how FOSS is superior to closed source because arbitrary reasons. If you live long enough, you’ll get the nuance to stop spouting crap that doesn’t mean shit outside of your bubble.
Seriously, you are literally teenage me. I’m so glad I grew out of this phase. But man, you seriously need to pick up a fucking sysman every once in a while and stop sniffing the farts of the in-crows of popular lin distros.
No , you just gave up. Stop lying to yourself. You hide behind muh affordability because that’s the convenient excuse to use to not think about this.
The status quo will benefit you for giving up entirely and disparaging those who advocate for freedom.
“Teenage me” sounds like a mask off moment for you being a bitter out of touch person. You endorse the status quo and hide it under emotional rants of being more mature than the rest of us.
“Nothing is pure… Rant about corpo crap”
I’m only commenting to this because I don’t want younger folks or to be caught up in your self hate spiral.
Its GNU/Linux because clowns like you exist and won’t shut up. People deserve better, they don’t deserve someone like you frothing at the mouth at the fact that you don’t believe a better world is possible.
You’re incredibly lucky that a majority of “Linux”/tech communities tolerate you.
I didn’t so much give up as I was forced to reconcile the false narratives posed by the bubble I was living in versus getting the fucking job done at the end of the day. Having to actually work according to legal standards, KPIs, milestones and visions really makes you realize the limitations of certain systems and the pitfalls of them. That only comes with experience.
And I don’t fucking *need *communities to tolerate me, because I don’t care. Again, you’re speaking like some teenager on Twitter that’s worried about likes more than someone whose got insight. If I need a *nux server for anything, I’ll use it. But I’m not going to let blind FOSS bullshit idealism bar me from getting the job done at the end of the day.
Now, if you had any brains you’d realize that smugly telling windows lusers to switch their OS is only going to piss them off. If you REALLY wanted to be a suave motherfucker, you could tell the users how to fix their shit and then tell them WHY shit like that happens (99% because win is a mono system, which *Nux isn’t) and then suggest a distro that would work for a switch, maybe link to some handy guides or shit like that.
But no, you’re 16 year old me instead who giggles at Tux memes and tells people to switch when they ask for help. Fucking cringe.
Church
You sort of missed the point where Linux gives you freedom. Linux is built for users, windows is built for marketing, and it shows. It makes Linux nice for end users and it makes windows nice for the marketing department, sales and the share holders.
Windows SUCKS in it’s daily use and even after all these years it’s still a Swiss cheese security wise. Yes, people would face issues with Linux too. Of course they will. But it will be a while different class of issues, not caused by a “fuck the user” attitude like Microsoft has it, but issues that will be solved because on Linux people actual care.
Yes, keep rehearsing the old propaganda. Doesn’t mean shit to the normie that still uses Windows because they’d rather have support than shitty half or undocumented systems that do shit they’re not supposed to at the worst time. For what it’s worth, you’re completely right. 100%. But reality makes all your right irrelevant. So, rather than fucking around and trying to convert people, maybe just lay off the bullshit and leave them be? Or … you know, git gud and help out?
I do.
I help people with Linux wherever I can.
I make companies use Linux. My own company uses Linux everywhere, it was built in from the start.
What you’re saying is a chicken and egg problem. Companies would love to give support go Linux users but then they need Linux users…
In the US and never got this popup, not sure if I did something different?
That’s what I’ve been wondering too. I keep seeing people complaining about ads, but I use Edge (and Firefox) with Bing regularly on an up-to-date Win 11 system and I’m not seeing anything like that.
Maybe they’ve got demographic targeting that I don’t fit into or something.
I am in the EU
They usually choose a subset of customers to try UI changes on before rolling it out to everyone. This way they can estimate the general reaction before committing to it. They probably also have a dozen different layouts and text for this dialog that they are testing to see what makes people most likely to click yes. Its all just statistics to them.
It is perfectly legal. That’s what you get for using and choosing a shitty corporation’s useless operating system while harassing GNU/Linux users for decades. Frankly, all of you Microsoft bootlickers are getting what you deserve.
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But you enable MS’s bad behavior. They know you all have no backbone.
There’s no strawmanning, just the consequences of endorsing abusive behavior done by parasites.
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Using Microsoft Windows or any of its derivatives is endorsement of that software. Every user of Windows is a sucker. OP’s post is not the end nor the start.
Get real, the audience of Windows is an audience of self-enabling victims.
“But I have to use it for work!!! I have to make money!”
You are still a sucker and perpetuating this broken system. If that makes you angry, it should, the artifice of respectable neo-liberal society was stripped from you.
If Linux didn’t manage to somehow be worse than Windows then this would be a problem.
To use Linux is to jog on the highway.
No, you juat nees to pick the correct distro from lile 5 distros. This is as simple as beig able to predict what software you will be running or what will you be doing on what software.
You see, super simple.
Full disclosure, I’m linux user for about 7 years. Only this year I finally switched to only Lonux when buying my new PC. And running Ubuntu cuz everyone makes stuff for it and fuck Arch
lmk when I can Baldur’s Gate 3, Squad, Planetside 2, Warframe, Valheim, Photoshop, Solidworks, and use VR on Linux.
You can run Baldurs Gate 3 on Linux. Planetside 2 works, Warframe does too, Valheim has a native Linux build, Photoshop runs in Linux using Wine, there are projects showing how to get Solidworks running in Wine.
I don’t know what Squad is and as for VR, I see instructions for SteamVR but I don’t know if that runs well or not.
“I will make it legal.”
-Darth CEOus
hack Microsoft simply
