Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Start Menu

Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by add-sub-mul-div on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:04PM (#35545945)

I have to manually remove ads from the Ubuntu server motd.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by JohnFen on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:19PM (#35546183)

Yeah, there are several reasons why I don't recommend Ubuntu to people. That's one of them. Although, admittedly, it's toward the end of the list.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by pndy on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:25PM (#35546283)

I've got one about Ubuntu ESM in Linux Mint - but only in virtual consoles

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by nullcaution on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:06PM (#35545974)

What is the motd?

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by lax4ever on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:09PM (#35546031)

Message of the day, usually displayed at login.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by hef19898 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:25PM (#35546291)

Serious question. How comes I din't get any of those on desktop? And never did?

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by fathyb on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:38PM (#35546480)

It gets displayed right after logging in, either directly through `login` or indirectly through something like SSH.

If you're using a desktop environment that's the reason: the message is hidden by your DE, and starting a terminal emulator does not cause a login.

You might be able to see it by switching off your DE and logging in manually through the virtual console.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by executesorder66 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:38PM (#35546482)

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by Un1corn on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:33PM (#35546393)

I'm pretty sure MOTD is only shown on server installations

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by nullcaution on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:46PM (#35546603)

At least it is probably not one of those dumb MS tabloid ads "Bill Gates hates this one weird trick!"

Jokes aside, that would make me switch to Debian immediately.

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by KineticLensman on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:11PM (#35546053)

Message of the Day

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Re:Microsoft Is Slowly Rolling Out Ads in the Windows 11 Sta... by giantrobot on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @04:12PM (#35546061)

Message of the Day.

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