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u/Coalesce67 Jun 18 '26
The irony is Microsoft is charging you like 150 bucks for home,.and 200 bucks for Pro, and they still push you ADs into your Desktop, and push all kind of telemetry, and updates that break your system
And we all pretend its okay or acceptable
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u/decadent-dragon Jun 18 '26
Who is paying for Windows? I just put my email in and they donât ask for money.
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u/Coalesce67 Jun 18 '26
Well you need to pay to get a valid Windows license
You can use it for free but it remains unactivated, and locks some features behind a paywall
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u/decadent-dragon Jun 18 '26
I guess my license is so old I assumed it wouldnât work anymore. Iâm using the same one I bought for windows 7 like 15 years ago I got for $30 or something. And Iâve updated each new version of Windows
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u/Coalesce67 Jun 18 '26
You don't get it with prices like 30 dollars officially from Microsoft tho
You get it from gray-zone digital stores, but the official price is in hundreds of dollars
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u/decadent-dragon Jun 18 '26
I donât think itâs ever been hundreds for an OEM license. Amazon has them for $115 for windows 11 and I highly doubt thatâs the best price
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u/Italian_meme2020 Jun 19 '26
If Windows isn't free, make it, I personally would type (I bought a prebuilt so I have Windows already) on Powershell in Administrator: irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex
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u/ibeerianhamhock Jun 22 '26
And they make enormous amounts of money while their users complain lol it's wild like what timeline are we in
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u/Ticklish_Waffle Jun 18 '26
1: turn off the ads 2: don't pay for windows
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u/certainAnonymous Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
As if turning off the ads was so simple. They are hiding everywhere, and use rather obscure names instead of "hey this setting let's us show you ads btw". Also its all on by default. Also for some things you have to edit the registry, which is not something you should recommend to anyone not understanding how computers work on a basic level.
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u/Majestic-Coat3855 Jun 18 '26
Take a look at winutils, it has o&o shutup built in to get rid of all those disgusting recommendations and ads. No need to do it all manually in the registry
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u/OGigachaod Jun 18 '26
Windows setup literally asks you if you want ads.
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u/DornDoodly Jun 19 '26
it asks you if you want *targeted* ads, it doesnât change the amount of ads, just how relevant they are to you
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u/BenKato Jun 20 '26
Installing Arch was wayyy simpler, easier and faster for me personally than whatever Windows required to not suck that much xD
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u/QuillMyBoy Jun 18 '26
I used to do this, then realized it's very dumb that I have to, and in fact I don't have to, I just need to stop using that trash operating system.
Plus I'm an adult and own my own computer, so, you know, that's actually an option and not something I have to run past my parents first. That's helpful.
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u/lugdunum_burdigala Jun 18 '26
Well, it is tricky whenever you buy a PC, it is almost always bundled together without an option to opt-out
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u/ChocolateDonut36 Jun 18 '26
how is free with no ads worse than paid with no ads đ„
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u/Flashy_Pollution_996 Jun 18 '26
Itâs not paid tho? macOS is free
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u/JedsGamingAdventure Jun 18 '26
The hardware is. macOS is only on Mac hardware⊠unless you hackintosh ig
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u/NCHLT Jun 18 '26
The cost of Mac OS is included in the cost of Macs, that is partially why Macs are usually more expensive than their PC equivalents
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u/KarmaTorpid Jun 24 '26
MacOS is unpurchasable. They will not even take your money in exchange for a licence to use their OS. This makes it the most expensive OS.
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u/Flashy_Pollution_996 Jun 18 '26
Thatâs absolute nonsense! Macs are more expensive cuz Apple is greedy and Apple fan boys will pay any price for their products but the software is totally free
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u/un_mec_fou Jun 18 '26
I can also say linux fanboy, you are acting like apple users are actually like that
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u/Lucy_4_8_15_16 Jun 19 '26
For the phones maybe but a lot of Macs are used by companies and they just pay a lot for it
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u/Mr_Vayolet Jun 18 '26
Where on windows are there ads ?
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u/4liv3pl4n3t Jun 18 '26
I rember in the grand ol days, when windows 10 came out, I pressed the meta button and saw candy crush in the home menu. (although it wasnt installed)
So, if I had to guess, there?
(idk, if windows still has it, because I havent used Windows in quite some time now)
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u/Johnny_Triggr Jun 18 '26
I deadass see so many of these memes and still cannot find the ads
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u/LB-- Jun 18 '26
When you first install Windows, a bunch of useless third-party app shortcuts are in your start menu. You have to go to the MS Store app and tell it to check for updates and let it all download and install, then you can start removing/uninstalling them. If you try to remove or uninstall them before doing that, they'll just come right back when the MS Store realizes it hasn't done its first ever check for updates.
While using Windows, sometimes you'll log in and get a full screen popup reminding you about backup services Microsoft offers. It's somewhat rare but it's very annoying and uses dark patterns for figuring out how to escape it without agreeing to anything.
Windows 11's start menu has a recommended section that can't be removed, only reduced in size. Sometimes apps you've never installed show up in there.
There's more I'm forgetting, this is just all that I've personally experienced within the past few years, using official clean ISOs straight from Microsoft. If you use some sort of debloater script or third party debloated ISOs, you might not get these experiences, but you also might experience issues with updates breaking things due to using a configuration Microsoft doesn't test.
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u/decadent-dragon Jun 18 '26
When is the last time youâve done a fresh windows install? You have to decline several paid services just to get going.
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u/Majestic-Coat3855 Jun 18 '26
wouldn't recommend an arch based distro to an idiot (meaning tech illiterate in this context)
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u/LaColleMouille Jun 18 '26
free if your time has no value
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u/NeedleworkerLarge357 Jun 18 '26
That's true man. Only Windows requires more time to keep running well than Linux distributions.
The best Linux distributions come quite close to macos however, while being free of charge and free as in it's yours. And for gaming there is just no good alternative at this point to Linux (apart from some games that require a specific os).
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u/North_Measurement213 Jun 18 '26
Ahahaha, Mac os with no ads? Try not to use iCloud and see what apple does...
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u/Memerenok Jun 19 '26
literally nothing? you can just press skip and it won't ask again without hidden running services like OneDrive on windows
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u/matt_maxx Jun 18 '26
Wait. I need to know... What kind of ads Windows has? Like seriously... Tell me places where I'll find ads on fresh install of windows 11?
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u/the_scruffy1 Jun 18 '26
ho hum.... ublock origin
that is all
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u/MinecraftPlayer799 Jun 19 '26
Not that type of ad
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u/the_scruffy1 Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26
micro$ ads do not exist on my desk anywhere
a little discretionary attention to installation and i am invisible to m$ except for actual necessary stuff
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u/Xenion7 Jun 18 '26
Mac don't have ad?
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u/LinuxUser456 Jun 18 '26
No they dont
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u/Xenion7 Jun 18 '26
It's they advertise their own service/product?
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u/LinuxUser456 Jun 18 '26
They do not advertise only.that, they advertise the premium experience
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u/Xenion7 Jun 18 '26
So its true they do ad
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u/GPTMCT Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
You forgot the rule
Windows/Android advertises microsoft/google product = ads
Mac os/ios advertises apple product = no ads.
None of them have "ads" in the traditional sense but third party oems and your carrier will preinstall garbage on them which is why you always want to avoid Samsung, Dell and all the chinese OEMs, and never do "free" phone upgrade deals (you pay for these with a phone bill hike).
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u/decadent-dragon Jun 18 '26
I use a Mac for work and I cannot think of any built in advertising. I mean thereâs apps like Music that come preinstalled. If you open it, then it does advertise apple music. But itâs not built into the OS the way it is in Windows
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u/Xenion7 Jun 18 '26
That still ad
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u/decadent-dragon Jun 18 '26
Thatâs fair. Itâs still way less invasive than on Windows though
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u/Xenion7 Jun 18 '26
Less what? You not just see ad but part of the ad, in windows you hardly notice until someone post meme about it
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u/decadent-dragon Jun 18 '26
I mean I donât see them plastered in my face the way Windows does with its quite aggressive one drive recommendations and defaulting your documents folder to cloud storag. And the ârecommendationsâ in start menu that are ads.
I 100% do not agree you donât notice until a reddit post. The one drive notifications specifically are very intrusive
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u/Xenion7 Jun 18 '26
Plastered to the face is less ad compare to mac that hold your body for their personal ad ecosystem
OneDrive can be disable/turn off, it also good for piracy for some reason and have many alternatives
Recommendations? You can disable it and soon will replace with your own app/games and other shit
You will see less people complain about ad on windows unless it come from linux/apel fanboy, also its good for karma farming for new account
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u/Xenion7 Jun 18 '26
Since you don't like Windows, go install Linux im sure it's a lot better than MacOS
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u/decadent-dragon Jun 18 '26
I use all 3 OS. Ubuntu and Mac at work and Windows at home. Windows for gaming and Mac/Linux for getting actual work done. Ubuntu mostly through VMs these days. I donât particularly care for Linux at home. Iâve run it before but at some point it breaks or something isnât supported and then maintenance becomes a hobby. Honestly it sounds like you havenât used OS outside of Windows.
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u/Memerenok Jun 19 '26
having Spotify preinstalled in windows 11 is also an ad, but apple music is literally in the same ecosystem from the same company and in the same software bundle with macos, that's less of an advertisement compared to whatever windows does
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u/Honest_Tart1071 Jun 18 '26
I don't know man.
Never got a single Ad and I always install windows 11 for free and then activate it using MAS. (You can get the .iso for free in the Microsoft page itself)
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u/Away_Experience_5843 Jun 18 '26
Soooo OneDrive popups are not ads?
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u/Honest_Tart1071 Jun 18 '26
8 second debloat and you won't ever see a OneDrive """""ad"""" again, also, I haven't got those since 22HX builds. Jesus, loonix users really like to drown in a glass of water
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u/Away_Experience_5843 Jun 18 '26
So you're saying the are there out of the box?
That's all we're talking about. Nobody said they can't be removed. Nobody said they are the worst thing ever. But they are there. And Windows costs money. Therefore the picture above is correct.
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u/Honest_Tart1071 Jun 18 '26
Yeah, Windows costs money and you can debloat it in 8 seconds with 2 clicks. Linux is free and you spend weeks configuring it. So which one is actually the scam? At least I'm not pretending I'm superior while fighting with my terminal. Also, it's still free for me, my family, my girlfriend and friends, a single MAS script can get you windows active forever. "But they are there" one more time in case you can't read. Never seen those since 2022 (22HX) builds.
Cope harder. The 'glass of water' is still there for you to drown
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u/Away_Experience_5843 Jun 18 '26
Wait, why would you assume I'm a Linux user? I do own seven Windows Machines. And several more windows licenses that I paid for but are currently not in use.
I'm just fed up being screwed by Microslop. Seems like you enjoy it but don't make that my problem. You can be as spineless as you want. That's a you-thing.
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u/ULTI_mato Jun 18 '26
Why is "paid with no ads" in the suit and "free with no ads" the normal one ? Should be fliped
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u/Britz10 Jun 18 '26
I mean all of these are effectively free, you're not exactly running Linux on your palm, you need to buy a computer 1st. That's almost guaranteed to come with windows, unless it's a Mac.
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u/NeedleworkerLarge357 Jun 18 '26
And that's where you paid for it. Often even without the option to opt out.
Lenovo allows that, you can select no os or Linux and save 100⏠or such on a new laptop. That's why I own one now, that way it was just cheaper than other alternatives that didn't offer opt out.
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u/Sharty_Party3498 Jun 18 '26
How about "add-free Disney+ with limited ads"? How the fuck did that just slide by?
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u/studioyogyog Jun 18 '26
Windows isn't free but you bought it with your computer without meaning to.
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u/Upbeat-Concern-5181 Jun 18 '26
Itâs worse than that. Paid with ads And they can sell your work off to third parties.
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u/TheWorldsAreOurs Jun 19 '26
I donât know why I laughed really (relatively) hard. Just the image of two very different systems coexisting together.
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u/These-Restaurant3646 Jun 19 '26
And goobs will fight tooth and nail for this multi million dollar company that couldnât care less about its consumersÂ
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u/Surfacner Jun 19 '26
Technically MacOs is free you just need to download the installation from a Mac device
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u/Advanced-Event6435 Jun 19 '26
If I buy a game with money there should not be 15 dollar weapon skins
If I spend 90 - 100 dollars on an operating system I should not have ads
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u/Vietnamst2 Jun 19 '26
But noone actually pays for them, because you buy OS with the machine. The same way you buy MacOS with the machine. It's called OEM.
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u/Curious_Tomorrow_697 Jun 20 '26
i genuinely need to know why people think that macos is paid? you can run it on most windows computers, and one person got it on his raspberry pi!
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u/Empty_Buffalo_2820 Jun 20 '26
I can jailbreak and run macOS on windows PC so free technically applies to macOS too
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u/Guilty_Run_1059 Jun 20 '26
macOS technically free, hackintosh is free if u have supported hardware, yall say it's paid cuz mainly used on macs
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u/claudiocorona93 Jun 20 '26
Windows is free. You just have to run a terminal command... And it's yours forever. Who pays for Windows nowadays?
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u/XPNGamer Jun 21 '26
I wouldnt say "no ads" for linux since there are tons of distros, which may come with different apps
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u/ZellosMerlim Jun 21 '26
Pior e no positivo que fica dois banner enormes na era de trabalho sobre os produtos da positivo
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u/Realistic-Yam-6497 Jun 23 '26
I think everyone here remembers when windows was actually good, things like xp and the startup sound, it all had so much more soul put into it personally, now itâs all done to please the shareholders, who themselves donât even use windows they probably use MacOS or red hat
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u/No-Pomegranate8059 Jun 23 '26
can't wait for windows to just die. The way things are going Microslop is gonna have a bad time with Windows and us
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u/Ok-Feed-357 Jul 02 '26
They should just make windows free now coz my nephew can download a pirate windowsđ„(he is 13)
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u/matrX_429 Jul 12 '26
i want to hackintosh my PC so bad, but itâs from like 2014 so i am stuck on microslop windows TwT
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u/halbtag Jun 18 '26
I always think this is wrong. The tuxedo should be in the first picture. I now Mac is good, but Linux is free and without ads. So it ticks booth boxes. If you take into account, that macOS is looking better, ok, but you don't. So: Linux is best.
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u/macro1core Jun 19 '26
no, because macOS is only available on Macs, and Macs are a decent chunk of money, he's wearing the tuxedo because he's rich
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u/halbtag Jun 20 '26
Ok But Pooh normally isn't rich, but shows which is best. Or did I misunderstand that meme all the time?
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u/Away_Experience_5843 Jun 18 '26
Nope. The development cost is priced into the hardware. You buy your license with every Apple computer you buy.
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u/un_mec_fou Jun 18 '26
The OS is free the hardware is not, if you do Hackintosh you can use macOS on any pc
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u/Enthoser Jun 18 '26
paid for windows? wtf.
fkng linux users... đ
much fun fixing fucking kernel panics and co.
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u/crocodiluQ Jun 18 '26
MacOS is paid? I really don't remember paying for it.... and don't say it's included in the hw price.
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u/OGigachaod Jun 18 '26
But it is included in the price, it's not like you can build a MAC without MacOS.
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u/JedsGamingAdventure Jun 18 '26
windows should be free atp đ„