Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
by Karunamon on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:42PM
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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.
Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
by Rusky on Thursday May 11, 2017 @09:35PM
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The shit being sold in the file manager is... space in the cloud for your files. Which is managed by the file manager.
Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
by Karunamon on Friday May 12, 2017 @12:56PM
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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.
Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
by sbarre on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:35PM
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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..
Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
by RcouF1uZ4gsC on Thursday May 11, 2017 @02:27PM
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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).
Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
by jcrawfordor on Friday May 12, 2017 @09:26PM
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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.
Re:New Distros Coming to Bash/WSL via Windows Store
by badthingfactory on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:41PM
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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.
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.