Xbox users booting up their console today were greeted with a large splash screen prompting them to buy it now that the new campaign is out, and some of them aren’t too happy about it.

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    1 year ago

    I legit went, “oh fuck no” at just the headline, and I don’t even have an Xbox.

    I’m a PC gamer, and I don’t have words for how pissed off I am about the fact that every time I turn on my PC, the first thing I see before I can run log in in is a screenshot from Starfield and a message to “Play Starfield on Game Pass!” or to get Game Pass. Like. Eff off and let me log in. If I had to see that bs on a console to boot? I’d be screaming.

    • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve never seen that.

      But what I think it happening is that you have your lockscreen background image set to “Windows Spotlight”? The web-based one? That’s usually the nature image in the background of MSN search, too? Because yeah, sometimes MS swaps that out for a full-screen image about a new game release, and that in turn would then also show this on the lock screen.

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      1 year ago

      At the risk of being That Guy, Linux has come a long way for gaming and distros won’t pull this crap. Just sayin.

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        1 year ago

        Unfortunately I also can’t play the games I spend the most time on, so it’s really only good for single player machines I don’t intend to be MP’ing on.

        Basically my travel laptop is a Linux machine now, steam deck of course, but the desktop has to stay windows until anticheat for certain games is GNU/Linux compatible.

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        1 year ago

        And Mint is a good starting point. I’ve had 4/4 Just Works™ installs so far.

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      1 year ago

      I’m on Win11 and don’t have that. Think you need to turn off “Spotlight Backgrounds” somewhere in settings. While it gives you new backgrounds, it uses it as advertising.

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      1 year ago

      I would’ve legitimately sell my xbox on the very same day. It’s probably an overreaction, but i’m not looking at ads on my paid xbox with a monthly subscription.

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      1 year ago

      The minute i saw that was the minute i changed away from those types of backgrounds on the login screen. In the control panel you can just change it to anything you want

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      1 year ago

      If you are on windows 10 or earlier ,you can disable those. Not sure about 11. It’s just a few powershell commands.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      There are a number of registry edits you can make to basically turn Win11 back into Win10, at least from a UI and a “no ads on my login screen” perspective.

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      1 year ago

      Bloatynosy app Google it grab it from GitHub, run it, select what you want from the recommendations. takes less than 5min in total and makes win 11 pretty great tbh