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Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by prima-facie »

SantiagoElf wrote: post #24
rbanffy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> WSL2, running Linux on Windows, VS Code, VS 2022, it's all good. As someone who also has a Linux desktop and laptops in addition to the Windows machine, WSL is terrible next to the real thing. Unless you need software that only runs on Windows, I advise against using it as a reason to stay on Windows.

I have been using Linux since Redhat 6.2 back in 1998. I have had my share of xconfig edits, bash scripts, etc explorations. I am now reaching 36, I just like 'things that work' - like Windows. Windows works with all my hardware, with all my 7 laptops, with all my 2 towers, I can install Visual Studio 2022 on it, I can install Ubuntu in WSL2 and I can play Dota2/Civ/Baldur's Gate/Warhammer 40k Insquisitor Martyr/list…

> I can install Ubuntu in WSL2

Funny how the best thing to have happened to Windows in the last 10-ish years is gaining the ability to install Linux on top ;)

Also making Python and Angular first class citizens in their dev stacks. Both of which are prominent open-source projects.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by premun »

coryrc wrote: post #25
SantiagoElf wrote: post #2

I just went and resetted it back to Chrome. Probably someone' house at Kabo at Microsoft depends on some OKR and metrics to show growth for Edge. Pathethic, short-sighted, but most probably true.

> I just went and resetted it back to Chrome. Out of the frying pan into the fire.

Exactly, why would anyone prefer Chrome to Edge? They both are built on the same Chromium core but Google adds a bunch tracking with merging your website logging together with your browser account.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by rbanffy »

hdjjhhvvhga wrote: post #75
SantiagoElf wrote: post #45

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> Been there done that. As a Linux user, I've never done that. Any kinds of obsessions are useless. I'm concentrated on performance and efficiency, and I find Linux environment perfect for my needs, extremely rich and flexible. Someone might say the same about their Windows box - and that's perfectly fine, fortunately everybody is free to use what they want - let's leave OS wars to people who enjoy having this kind o…

One of the points of Gnome is that it has sensible defaults and you just live with them.

Like, you know, a Mac.

BTW, there's something to be said about how sensible Windows defaults are. I'm not really liking the start menu moving to the middle of the dock.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by schleck8 »

intsunny wrote: post #29

> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? Any similar stories? Based on this very recent comment, even the creaters of Windows do not: This has been the case for a while. I worked on the Windows Desktop Experience Team from Win7-Win10. Starting around Win8, the designers had full control, and most crucially essentially none of the designers use Windows. I spent far too many years of my career sitting…

> Based on this very recent comment, even the creaters of Windows do not:

I made a joke about this after the Windows 11 update introduced the new right click menu, meaning things like 7zip and my file reputation tool where all an additional click away for no apparent reason other than putting bigger spacing and more icons.

That just had to be designed by atleast someone who doesn't power use Windows, and maybe even daily drives a different OS

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by maxbaines »

After initially feeling excited about Edge and Windows11, I moved to Ubuntu over the Christmas break for exactly this reason. It’s insane to me why Microsoft keep doing it, they literally lost me as a Windows, Edge, Office user because of it. All I wanted was my settings to stay the same.

I do all the above on a surface laptop which I love, but I may move hardware as no reason now to use it.

Re: Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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Post by anthropodie »

pizza234 wrote: post #4

> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? I don't; I develop on Linux. Ignoring this, within my very limited usage of Windows, it seems to me that MS has become increasingly more hostile over the last few years or so. To answer with something actionable: I discourage people from upgrading to Windows 11.

It seems weird that when a company grows beyond one point they start these user hostile practices. Google is another example. When they are small they are more open to innovation than manipulating user into using their product. What goes wrong?
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