Microsoft's full-screen reminders – upgrade to Windows 11 are back

[rsolva]

These fullscreen messages are so confusing to elderly people, most of my support calls from family and friends are related to the weird and unpredictable updates and invasive popups, or the consequences from these.

I have slowly been moving them, one by one, over to Fedora. I still get support calls, but not related to the OS, more like, "how do I add an attachment to this email, I forgot."

[tapoxi]

I can see it now...

"How do I share my screen?"

"Well grandma, the Google Chrome Flatpak you're using defaults to Xorg so it runs in XWayland, which means it can't see the desktop because the rest of your shell is native in Wayland. If you go to chrome://flags and set prefered-ozone-platform to wayland it might work, but some people in this reddit thread also mention you need to install xdg-desktop-portal-gnome so it can call the screensharing API in GNOME. This also might not work in the Flatpak at all and maybe just the RPM."

[hot_gril]

Would've never thought of having a non-tech-understanding person use GNU/Linux before, but nowadays I think Windows has managed to close the gap on its own by becoming horrible. Though there are other options like iPad or Chromebook.

[simonblack]

I usually keep a minimal Windows partition on my machines by reducing the Windows install that comes with my machines down to 100 gig or even less.

But over the last few years, the Windows 10 and Windows 11 installations are being booted occasionally merely to update the Windows itself.

More and more I'm considering that to be a waste of time, because I don't use Win 10 or Win 11 for anything practical. I only use Win 7 when I do use Windows.

It's probably time to blow away those Win 10 and Win 11 partitions entirely, I think.

[Havoc]

They're increasingly becoming UX hostile.

Also, what's up with the random "welcome to your new device, lets set everything up". Seen that about 4 times already on my current W11 install.

[nailer]

I tried to read this article attempting to find any instance of the aforementioned Full screen reminder and about 10 images in I gave up.

[jqpabc123]

Too bad Linux still can't offer a desktop alternative that is widely acceptable.

Personally, I am contemplating moving to a server version of Windows on my desktop. This AI nonsense looks like just a privacy invasion scheme.

[wkat4242]

I really like plasma. But above all I love that there is choice. I could never deal with gnome 3. If Linux were to pick that as the one standard desktop I just would leave the platform.

[simonblack]

Too bad Linux still can't offer a desktop alternative that is widely acceptable.

Well, yes it can. But the choice of Desktop whether that be Linux, MacOS or Windows is just a matter of familiarisation.

I have the exact opposite view to you: "Too bad Windows still can't offer a desktop alternative that is widely acceptable." but that is because I have been using a Linux Desktop for over 20 years. I've been using the LinuxMint MATE Desktop for about 10-11 years.

If you feel happy with Windows, stick with it. It's your machine, and your choice.

[hxii]

My biggest issue is gaming, as anytime I try doing anything with Proton I find myself screwing around with it too much which defeats the purpose IMO.

Otherwise I would’ve switched long ago, as at the very least the development environment is much nicer in Linux.

[rav3ndust]

just out of curiosity, what's wrong with the more 'traditional' Linux desktops, such as Plasma or Cinnamon?

[hulitu]

> Microsoft's full-screen reminders – upgrade to Windows 11 are back

Even if you filter *.microsoft.com and other domains in firewall ?

[wdb]

I think I just read a news article about Windows advertising about the many notifications on Macs?

[beretguy]

Saw one yesterday for the first time.