Microsoft is testing ads (recommendations) in yet another location of its Windows 11 operating system.

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.

  • @cman6English
    4•5 months ago

    So just to help a little bit without getting too technical…

    df -h is your friend to find out which physical drive or partition relates to which directory (called the “mount point”)

    If you want, you can set up each drive/partition to be mounted a bit Windows-esque.

    For example:

    • Drive 1, partition 1 will almost certainly be root /
    • But drive 1, partition 2 can be mounted to: /mnt/d/
    • And then drive 1, partition 3 can be mounted to: /mnt/e/

    And so on.

    You’ll need to look up fstab to understand how to do that.

    I understand it’s tricky to get your head around initially as I felt exactly the same coming from Windows to Linux.

    Once you get your head around partitions being able to be mounted anywhere, it actually becomes really handy