When is an ad an advertisement and not a recommendation? Microsoft clearly likes to use the term recommendation for what others may see as an advertisement.
There are recommendations in the Start menu, Settings app, Lock screen, File Explorer, Get Help app, and other areas of the operating system already. These are often not that useful. App recommendations in the Start menu are limited to Microsoft Store apps.
Now, Microsoft is testing recommendations in the Microsoft Store app. If you never use the app, you won’t be exposed to these. If you do, you may notice recommendations popping up when you try to use the built-in search.
First spotted by phantomofearth on X, two or three recommendations are shown whenever search is activated in the official Microsoft Store app.
Install any popular Linux distro. They are all so much better than any proprietary OS. And if you are running relatively common hardware, everything will just work.
Not any. Better avoid Ubuntu. They have advertisements too.
I use Ubuntu daily and didn’t seen any add, only during the install they ask once if I want Ubuntu Pro
When I was installing Ubuntu for my father a week ago, they showed me ads offering to install Microsoft apps.
Never happened to me, I hope they get their shit together and stop that. Ubuntu is the first distro for lots of people who want to leave windows and that does not looks good
I hope for that, too.
If that is based on the Amazon suggestions then that joke is about 10 years out of date at this stage. I am using fedora so I am not an Ubuntu fanboy