New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store

Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by jcrawfordor on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:26PM (#14317815)

I think people have a bit of a popular misconception about the Explorer advertising thing. What's happening is that MS is adding a banner to Explorer advertising paid OneDrive subscriptions.

I totally agree that it's massively inappropriate, but I do think that most people are imagining third-party advertising which is not what's happening - a lot of people might not consider the current situation to be an "ad" necessarily since it is pushing a subscription for OneDrive, a Microsoft product that you already have installed. It's more of an in-app purchase kind of offer.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by Karunamon on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:42PM (#14317973)

I don't particular care who is trying to sell me shit in the file manager, I care that shit is being sold in the file manager.

In an operating system I paid $100 for. Unacceptable.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by Rusky on Thursday May 11, 2017 @09:35PM (#14320849)

The shit being sold in the file manager is... space in the cloud for your files. Which is managed by the file manager.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by Karunamon on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:56PM (#14325627)

Which I already paid for as part of the operating system. If they want to advertise to me, they can give me my money back.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by sbarre on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:35PM (#14317905)

Yeah I don't understand why people are freaking out about this. I know the icon is there, but I never "see" it and I'll never click on it..

So who cares..

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:27PM (#14318333)

If this is all it is, then it is not unprecedented. I remember that Windows 95 did something similar with MSN (which at that time was also a dialup service).

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by jcrawfordor on Friday May 12, 2017 @09:26PM (#14329143)

Yeah, I recently installed Windows 95 in a VM to run some old software and I was actually quite surprised at how hard it pushes MSN - the "connect to the internet" wizard it presents basically asks if you're on a LAN and, if you say no, tells you to call MSN to sign up.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by badthingfactory on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:41PM (#14317961)

As-is, I don't think it's a big deal. This is a slippery slope though. Look at what cable television has become. You pay for the product and they shove advertisements down your throat. Satellite radio is doing the same thing.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by komali2 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:37PM (#14317920)

They don't necessarily make it easy to turn off all the weird ad-type-stuff, but they don't make it impossible either. A quick tour through settings on install can get rid of it all.

There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them. You have to do esoteric shit in the registry editor to disable this. It infuriates me.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by anonymfus on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:29PM (#14318351)

>There is still one absolutely heinous crime though - your system comes preinstalled with Minecraft and Candy Crush (and a couple other bullshit softares), and if you uninstall them, Windows 10 will automatically reinstall them.

That was fixed in Creators Update: it now remembers uninstalled default applications.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by komali2 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:52PM (#14318547)

I'm not 100% on this, but I'm fairly certain I wiped and reinstalled Windows on my surface after the creator's update, and I still had this issue.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by dlp211 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @05:38PM (#14319756)

You wiped, how would the OS remember?

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by komali2 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @06:38PM (#14320093)

As in, after I wiped, I uninstalled Minecraft, and within 5 minutes it was reinstalling.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by cryptarch on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:59PM (#14318117)

Are you for real? Is this really the world most of my friends live in?

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by iaml on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:47PM (#14318014)

I recently did a fresh install of creators update on my laptop. Not only does it have crapware bundled that I had to uninstall, it has placeholders for apps from store which is literally advertisement. I also got edge ads when I was downloading other browser. I preemptively disabled all other "suggestions", but saying that windows 10 doesn't have ads is a blatant lie.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by Semaphor on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:26PM (#14317819)

It's all in the settings. I never had ads or privacy problems, but if you leave everything at the default settings, you'll have those problems

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by SomeStupidPoint on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:41PM (#14317955)

I agree that it's all in the settings, but I also had to turn off Cortana making suggestions in 3 different spots.

MS definitely didn't make it easy to get it to stop harassing you.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by badthingfactory on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:37PM (#14317921)

I formatted a few weeks ago. After installing Chrome and opening it, a popover appeared over the Edge icon in my toolbar explaining how much faster it is. I've also seen a few OneDrive ads.

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Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store by kodfodrasz on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:24PM (#14317793)

I have also not seen any anytime. It is also true that I only use managed Enterprise, and a pro at home where I have o365 subscription.

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