Technology

59152 readers

2313 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

334

Microsoft is testing Game Pass ads on the Windows 11 Settings homepage (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

92 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Microsoft's announcement: "We are introducing a new Game Pass recommendation card on the Settings homepage. The Game Pass recommendation card on Settings Homepage will be shown to you if you actively play games on your PC. As a reminder – the Settings homepage will be shown only on the Home and Pro editions of Windows 11 and if you’re signed into Windows with your Microsoft account."

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why would anyone use this over Silverblue?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They advertise as being zero maintenance which is a huge deal with many windows and Mac users than don't want to think about the tool itself, they just want to use it. From the site:

What's the difference between Vanilla Kinoite and Aurora? Vanilla Kinoite is a very stock experience. Aurora includes many enhancements and tweaks, like included drivers for various printers, network adapters and more as well as included codecs. Aurora also features tweaks to enhance your battery life on a laptop.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Hmmm alright I guess I’ll take your word for it. My experience with Silverblue/Kinoite is that it’s already pretty close to zero maintenance if you choose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

By zero maintenance they mean you don't even have to hit the update button. It all just happens automatically. Many Linux users won't like that but many windows and Mac users will.