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Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

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Post by CJefferson »

0x0nyandesu wrote: post #68
orev wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not saying that there aren’t issues, but the fact that billions of people use Windows and don’t routinely have their profiles wiped out with every update points to a specific issue with your setup; not a systemic Windows problem.

Oy vey. You're objectively incorrect. It's definitely a Microsoft issue. They use the old OS upgrade procedure to do quarterly updates now which means if it finds a Users directory it will rename it to Users.old and make a new one. However if it does two upgrades in a row in the background without telling you the old Users.old will be deleted from your disk. Now all it would take them is a second to check the sizes o…

I've never heard of this -- I've just tried googling and I can't find anything about automatically deleted, or even created, "Users.old" folder (I realise you might not have got the name exactly right).

Sometimes individual user directories get moved if they are corrupted, but they still aren't in my experience deleted.

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

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Post by s_dev »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #101
danaris wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Firefox, for all it's modern faults, is the only browser that's actually different in any substantial way. ...Because apparently Safari no longer exists...?

And where can I download the current build of Safari for Windows?

https://support.apple.com/downloads/safari

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

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Post by ChuckNorris89 »

s_dev wrote: post #112
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And where can I download the current build of Safari for Windows?

https://support.apple.com/downloads/safari

What use are releases from 2015 today? Or are you just trolling?

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

thesuitonym wrote: post #100
AnIdiotOnTheNet wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good for you, there should be a checkbox so I don't have to suffer for your preferences.

There is, just turn off Windows Updates.

It isn't so straight forward if you aren't in the know on special tooling like O&O ShutUp 10 to accomplish it for you. Even then it'll get reset after updating and you'll have to fix it again. There is no "don't ever update unless I tell you to" checkbox, there is only the option to pause them for a limited time.

Windows is actively user hostile when it comes to updates.

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

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Post by Dudeman112 »

retskrad wrote: post #2

Google used same tactics to grow Chrome market share. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

"Should I show up any speck of decency? No, the game lets me get away with it anyway, so who cares" - Approximately everyone who uses that saying unironically.

If the only environment where someone will not be an asshole is an environment that punishes assholery, they are an asshole.

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

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Post by Quarrelsome »

loudtieblahblah wrote: post #88
mynameismon wrote: post #63

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That is exactly what I love about Windows 11 particularly. I don't have to deal the abdominations like Microsoft News, just a winget away. Don't like Edge? winget uninstall -e "Microsoft.Edge"

i look at advancements like this in Windows and think it's really cool. But after spending so many years, especially in the late 90s and early 2000s, getting shit from a bunch of khaki wearing, corporate butt kissing MSCE types about how Linux is "get what you pay for" and constantly mocking that all this "free software can't do anything" and then sitting back and watching Linux empowering cloud computing, Unix/Linux…

Great post until:

> But F* windows and F* windows people in IT. The whole lot of em

Maybe leave the late 90s.

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

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Post by manbart »

annoyingnoob wrote: post #95
kgwxd wrote: post #64

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Windows releases always alternates between horrible and good enough. 11 will fester on some machines for a while like 8, Vista and ME did. Enterprise will stick to 10, and anyone who cares enough to fight dark patterns every time Windows update runs. 12 will likely be good enough for everyone to upgrade. 14 (they'll skip #13) will be garbo, 15 will be ok. Sun goes up, sun goes down.

My experience with 11 is that is just like 10 but with bad UI changes. 11 is stable and runs everything I need. I think 11 is more about changing hardware requirements, requiring a TPM. The UI garbage seems more like an opportunity to try new things, they'll figure out that people don't like these new things.

Yes, the UI is why I’m not planning on upgrading. I prefer the square windows of 10 to the knock-off MacOS theme that is 11. If I wanted MacOS I would be running it

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

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Post by prepend »

Spivak wrote: post #65
formerly_proven wrote: post #24

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"OOPSIE WOOPSIE!! Uwu We made a fucky wucky!! A wittle fucko boingo! The code monkeys at our headquarters are working VEWY HAWD to fix this!"

At least this tone accurately conveys the seriousness of the average dev team and is more fun than “this error has been sent to an unmonitored Slack channel, if you want to scream into the void here’s a link to our community forums.”

I would rather have a message of “we piped this error to /dev/null and will ignore it until someone important manually brings it to our attention” than whatever this is.

I also don’t think it reflects the dev team tone as it seems so fake fun and probably means the dev team is in terror of saying the wrong thing. I’d rather see the localization resource bundle value than whatever this is.

It’s about as honest as the Costco greeter in Idiocracy saying “Welcome…I love you.”

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

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Post by Quarrelsome »

prepend wrote: post #16
JCWasmx86 wrote: post #4

> “‘I hate saving money,’ said no one ever. Microsoft Edge is the best browser for online shopping.” This is really cringe

I don’t like this new form of writing, I’m not sure what it’s called. It’s not just informal, it’s cringy. I especially hate funny error messages as they just frustrate me. It’s ok when Reddit has a funny image because they can’t show my video game forum, but it’s infuriating when Microsoft shows a “whoops, what happened” when it just failed to sync the last 30 minutes of my work document.

It sounds like the sales prompt I was forced to use in my telesales job in 2003.

Re: Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome

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Post by dotancohen »

majkinetor wrote: post #92
easton wrote: post #42

Humorously, using tools built into Windows 10 and 11 now, you can open a PowerShell window, type winget install Google.Chrome, and never open Edge once if you don't want to.

You could do that almost 10 years ago with chocolatey the exactly same way, here is one liner iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 | iex; cinst googlechrome

And how did you get chocolatey on that new install? I'm guessing that the vast majority of users opened IE and downloaded it through that browser.
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