Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn them off

Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by DanBC on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:16AM (#13906442)

I've read all of it.

It's a considerable amount of work for an average user to get a working Ubuntu, and even after all that work there are still things (headphone audio ffs) that don't work.

This thread is about how people today should move off Windows, and how it is trivially easy to do so.

I agree people should move off windows. I disagree that it's trivially easy to do so, especially for these class of netbook style machine. I think that your advice (basically "wait until the kernel is updated") is proof that there are problems with these machines.

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by Sir_Cmpwn on Sunday March 19, 2017 @07:27AM (#13906471)

ASUS is the exception, not the norm, and dealbreaker bugs are generally only found in recent models. My point is that for nearly everyone, switching to Linux is easy, and people who generalize the whole platform as broken are spreading FUD.

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Re:Windows 10 is bringing ads to File Explorer – how to turn... by 21 on Sunday March 19, 2017 @09:45AM (#13907020)

So I tried yesterday installing (as a dual boot) Ubuntu on my desktop. 3 year old system, Intel 4770 CPU, Gigabyte motherboard, nothing fancy.

Ubuntu 16.10 wouldn't boot from a USB stick, with some PM error and the CPU watchdog errors.

Fine, go to all the trouble of plugging in a DVD drive, go out, buy a blank DVD. Same thing. The Ubuntu installation media just hangs with an error. Googling that didn't help.

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