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I run multiple browsers, Firefox is what I regard as my default but I use Chrome for work email. I launch the browsers on startup, and I just go into the browsers... once in a browser any link clicked is opened by that browser, so it all just works.
I can't think of a time when I've needed to follow a link that the OS has presented me with... or even of it presenting me with a link. Is that a thing?
> 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.
Advertisements in the start menu around Windows 8 was my tipping point. It's just a trashy thing to see candy crush and other crap in there that I never asked for, never could remove, etc. I went to Ubuntu and now PopOS and haven't looked back in almost 10 years. Maybe they've cleaned things up and removed the crap in later Windows but the damage is done and I'm never going back.
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Yeah, the answer is to simply not use Windows. I can only see there being an advantage for some game developers to be using it these days. Linux is actually a much better OS for techies: you can make it look nicer, have a better workflow, and you can really play games now that Steam Deck brought so much focus on Linux compatibility. Otherwise, Mac OS is doing just fine as well.
> Yeah, the answer is to simply not use Windows. Yeah, no. You either switch to Mac and lose 99% of your applications and some of your hardware. Or you switch to Linux and lose 90% of your applications and latest hardware; And enjoy random problems and figuring out which of hundred answers online is right. Answer could be none, because for example Wayland support for multiple monitors sucks.
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>>Exactly, why would anyone prefer Chrome to Edge? Is this....a real question? I'll bite - because Chrome signs into my google account and it seemlessly remembers everything I do between my PC, my laptop and my phone. I literally couldn't care any less what core it uses, the usability aspect is just better than in Edge.
> it seemlessly remembers everything I do between my PC, my laptop and my phone That is not a feature, unless you are OK with Google spying on you.
To give another example - my Volvo allows me to track every single journey in the app, seeing the electricity/petrol consumption, mileage, start/end date.....
Yes it means Volvo now knows all of my travel history. But it also means I get access to functionality that is useful to me.
If that's not a feature to you, then don't use it.
The question was "why would anyone prefer Chrome" - because it's a very good browser which has useful features. Like, it's not rocket science.
I never click a link outside of a browser I have launched ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I run multiple browsers, Firefox is what I regard as my default but I use Chrome for work email. I launch the browsers on startup, and I just go into the browsers... once in a browser any link clicked is opened by that browser, so it all just works. I can't think of a time when I've needed to follow a link that the OS has presented me with... or even…
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Advertisements in the start menu around Windows 8 was my tipping point. It's just a trashy thing to see candy crush and other crap in there that I never asked for, never could remove, etc. I went to Ubuntu and now PopOS and haven't looked back in almost 10 years. Maybe they've cleaned things up and removed the crap in later Windows but the damage is done and I'm never going back.
Didn't Ubuntu have an Amazon link in the Unity start menu for a while?
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If you want to run Linux on a computer, you do your research and build/buy one where the hardware support is there. Most people don't need "latest" hardware; hardware from 2-3 years ago is fine, and, honestly, most latest hardware works fine too -- again, if you do your research. Grabbing a random machine and expecting it to work fine (especially if it's a laptop) will often fail, and that's why people spend hours on…
> Grabbing a random machine and expecting it to work fine Not random, but my current machine. How else am I (or random person on the Internet) to migrate to Linux then? Create an entire new machine just for Linux? That is a pretty hefty price. E.g. You bought an expensive nVidia card. Yeah, throw it away. Get AMD. Want dual monitors. Throw one away... I honestly dread switching to Linux. > Certainly some people have…
If it's a laptop then buying an entire machine is the norm.
If you want to test hardware you already own, then just do it. No need to do any real research there.
> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? As others have mentioned, I don't! I left and went to Fedora about 3 months ago - still keep a W10 VM for my scanner as Linux still hasn't sorted that stuff but I use it once a month or something so no big deal. It was my second or third attempt over the years to move to Linux and F35 is now rock solid and I can do .NET development with absolutely no problems…