mccI don't understand how Windows 10 is discontinued yet Microsoft still finds ways to add new types of advertisements to it
The experience of using Windows 10 is that you walk away from the computer to watch something on TV and when you come back the OS has quit out of all your work applications so it can reboot the computer so it can stuff advertisements (in this case "weather"; apparently news and stock quotes are a kind of weather) into a new place on your computer (in this case the lock screen; I already had one type of advertisements disabled on the lock screen, so they added a second type)
tibi@mcc I have no idea how I keep avoiding this plague while everyone around me keeps getting served this crap, but I am Dreading the switch to 11
@tibi I am seriously trying to switch to Linux instead. 11 is what pushed me over the edge
@mcc I've considered it many times but I'm really inflexible with my workflows and apps so it would be a huge amount of labor. and despite everything, I know how to wrangle windows while Linux I'd have to learn how to deal with from scratch. 11 would have to be truly catastrophic for me to try switching
@tibi It's only possible because this has been a project I've been slowly on virtually since the release of Win11. And I haven't been able to eliminate use of the Win10 machine yet. I expect when Win10 gets discontinued I'll enter the corporate program where you can pay for extended support for a few extra years. I'm still not clear on how much that costs though.
@mcc I've used Totally Legitimate Means to switch my windows over to a enterprise lts version but I have to wait until EOL to see if that actually does anything