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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Five years ago I installed Windows 10 direct from Microsoft's online store onto my Ubuntu laptop so I could play some Windows-only games.

It was fine for a while, but after some updates the Start menu began shoving ads (I believe Candy Crush was a big one) into my shortcut panels.

It's true that I could go deleting them one-by-one, and probably hunt down settings to disable them, but I find it repulsive that I paid for an operating system only to be personally made into a product for Microsoft on top of that. I've decided I'm never going to spend another dollar on such predatory behavior, even if it means I'm throwing away a significant portion of my video game library.

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

Good news is proton fucking rules these days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just stick to a rolling release distro and you're good to go