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It looks like we'll soon be welcoming a lot of new Linux users here (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ads in Windows Explorer was the final straw to make me switch to Linux a few years back. I would imagine that ads in the Start Menu could convince some others to do the same.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ads in Windows 10 back in like 2017 were major contributing factors for me to switch back then. But then when I mentioned I got ads in Windows 10, people looked at me like I had two heads. Perhaps there was some kind of A/B testing going on, and I was the unlucky one. This followed a forced update from Windows 8 Professional to Windows 10 Home, so I lost some control over my PC in that transition, as they took Pro features away from me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I did a brief Google search if it's possible to downgrade Pro to Home and that doesn't look possible without a clean install.

Home users experienced more ads than Pro users.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Again, Windows 8 Pro, forcibly upgraded against my will, with no ability to decline, to Windows 10 Home. It wasn't the same version of Windows downgraded from Pro to Home.