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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.
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.
At the risk of being That Guy, Linux has come a long way for gaming and distros won't pull this crap. Just sayin.
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.
And Mint is a good starting point. I've had 4/4 Just Works™ installs so far.
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.
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.
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
If you are on windows 10 or earlier ,you can disable those. Not sure about 11. It's just a few powershell commands.
If you are on Linux... Then you will never have to deal with this.
Proton really did change the game. I don't even need windows anymore at home.
Depends. All it needs is some big distro to ad remote-loaded-image automatic backgrounds to the lock screen, and there you are. Whenever that image swaps to an ad, you'd have it on your lock screen, too.
Don't misunderstand the ability for advanced users to disable or swap something (because this is trivially disabled on Windows, too) for an inability of companies or even groups of non-commercial volunteers to make shitty user-unfriendly decisions.
I agree, in my experience it's usually some higher up making these dumb decisions. It happens to video games daily
Just because it "could" happen doesn't mean it will happen.
Also if that happens then you chose the wrong distro
It would definitely never ever happen, only maybe a little bit, but really it's just a plug, which is like not an ad.
Finally Windows users have a legit reason to use the command line! /s
Windows 11. I went looking for how to turn it off and found out how to turn off all the OTHER ads, but not that one.
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.
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