When will they ever learn?
Between this and Lemmy, I’m ready for a switch to Linux now even though I don’t know how it works.
You ask people online and get 78 different answers, then get caught up in decision paralysis and stick with windows.
Honestly the popular linux distros are pretty polished / user friendly these days. You’ll run into little issues, and you need to be at least a little bit curious / tech savvy to figure them out, but it’s nothing a little googling can’t solve typically.
Don’t worry, none of us did until we gave it a go
similar to mac and windows
Why stop there, you could just make a whole operating system out of it and call it EdgeOS.
This is why you should use Linux instead
why stop at edge, open every single program at start up and also fill the screen with pop up ads while you are at it
and also fill the screen with pop up ads while you are at it
Like this!
Idiocracy movie was so correct about our future…
Even the president in that movie is gun crazy, and its literally Trump and his advisors.
Nah man. The president in Idiocracy listened to smart people about how to help his citizens. He cared about them and their ability go to the thunder dome for entertainment.
Thats actually true. There wasnt any military industrial complex with billions to earn from his decisions. In a way, that movie is sticking to the public school version of what our leaders are.
please do! i love when microslop promotes linux
It’s amazing the level of contempt for the average user most tech companies have these days.
They only care about their shareholders and investors. They haven’t given a shit about their customers in a long long time.
No, they care about their customers, their users are not their customers.
Idiots…
Linux is easier than ever to adop, distros like Mint just works out of the box, gaming with on Linux with proton and newer Wine much easier now…
Macs are cheaper than ever with MacBook Neo, if you want something that would just works out of the box.
So people have options and they need to realize there is tons of options for every need.
Can second this comment regarding Linux Mint. Many years ago I tried switching to Linux (Ubuntu, I think, back around 2008) but I lacked the knowledge and skills to make it work. Three or four months ago I decided to try again and downloaded Mint and installed it. I’ve been reading that gaming on Linux had gotten worlds better lately.
I decided to just dip my toes first and set it up to dual boot, in case I chose to go back to Windows. I had very few problems with the installation and operation. Nothing that took more than a quick google search to solve. Since then it’s been not unlike using Windows.
And yes, gaming seems to work pretty flawlessly too. I installed Steam and have had few issues with running any of the games I’ve tried.
Yeah until you need niche software… unfortunately
thats why I keep a windows usb boot drive, in case I ever need some random software. the last time I needed it was a fallout shelter save editor to enable the new paid content without paying
Run a VM for Windows…
there’s a few projects for running windows in a container… winboat and winapps are a couple that come to mind. dunno if they’re ready for ‘prime time’ yet. interesting concept, though.
Wasn’t MS just saying that they were going to work to de-shittify Windows? Evidently the same decision makers for the previous shit are still in charge.
By “de-shitify” they meant removing all the shit which isn’t owned and controlled by Microsoft.
Steam is able to play most Windows games now via Proton. You can wipe out the cancer that is data mining you and feeding all your porn habits to the US government.
That’s great. Yet another reason to tell people when they ask me why I’m using Linux on my computers.
In case you didn’t know, you can actually fully uninstall Edge.
https://www.neowin.net/guides/here-is-a-simple-method-to-uninstall-edge-in-windows-10-and-11/
(You probably don’t need to do the “vivetool” steps)
I prefer Firefox, so I was using that as default browser. Windows asked me every fucking time I started my laptop if I wanted to use edge as default. Sometimes it just went ahead and made the change anyway. Windows was consuming loads of my download data, fuck knows what for. Then the copilot stuff. Finally installed mint and feel like I got my laptop back.
Welcome to the Linux family. 🤌🫂
Windows was consuming loads of my download data, fuck knows what for.
Background updates of all the minor services running. I only had 360kbit/s for a while two years ago and windows could take a few hours until it was finished. You usually don’t notice it but I literally couldn’t use the internet until windows decided it was done.
I only had 360kbit/s for a while
they still sell dsl that slow here… and of course the telephone company charges those people even more than they do in town for 20-60mbit dsl or 100-1000mbit fiber.
Was there no registry key that you could modify to stop that behaviour?
I’ve been down that road.
- It’s experimental
- It’s opt-in
- Opt out once when prompted
- Turn off once in Settings
- Turn off once in registry <-- we are here
- Turn off three places in registry
- Turn off every boot in registry
- Install 3rd party app to disable
- Install 3rd party OS to disable
And repeat all this horseshit for 50 other things that should be a simple toggle or that way by default.
My only regret is waiting so long to switch to linux. It’s like leaving an abusive spouse for that sweet young thing you’d been crushing on.
Install 3rd party OS to disable
That’s the first step
lol thanks OK. Appreciate the “we are here” touch, I get it now …
There always is
It already does, on startup, on 11. The process is set to auto-run in task manager on every single new installation, it just doesn’t “appear” though the process is already loaded in memory the moment you log in.
Go ahead, check task manager > startup apps
Microsoft is malware.Windows already automatically preloads Edge in the background by default to increase its startup performance, so it’s not a huge leap to automatically display the app itself if Windows knows you’re going to open it anyway.
its always edging to launch
that’s a different thing. chromium edge has always had the ‘load at startup’ option (enabled by default, of course)… to make ‘loading’ it when you do run it, ‘faster’.
this new innovation will launch the actual browser window, too.
“iNn0vAti0N”
