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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 cesarb »

hnlmorg wrote: post #59
SantiagoElf wrote: post #24

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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'm a similiar age (few years older but nothing too signficant) and have used nearly every version of Windows. Inc pre 3.x versions, pre-NT4 versions, and most of the CE and embedded versions too. And like yourself, used Linux since the 90s too (Redhat, SuSE, and Slackware were my favourites up until I discovered Arch). Ironically I switched away from Windows and onto Linux precisely because I was sick of things not…

> Plus these days more and more software is browser based so you don't run into nearly as many "Linux not supported" issues as you did when I first gave up on Windows (back when XP was new).

Instead, you run into "Firefox not supported" issues.

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

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Post by nrabulinski »

grujicd wrote: post #212

About dealing with Microsoft crap. You customize Windows to your liking and move on. It's certainly not "on a daily basis" as suggested by OP. You don't have to keep anything as suggested by Microsoft. Oh, and you don't upgrade to newer Windows on existing PC until extended support runs out :) If you don't like start menu changes, you install something like Classic Shell (I don't know whether it runs on Win 11 though…

You can work around everything if you want to. The problem is, I shouldn’t have to work around stuff like this, the OS should compliment my PC work and be out of my way, not work actively against me and try to outsmart me.

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

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Post by lozenge »

There's a registry key you can set on Windows 10 to prevent the upgrade to 11. It'll be a long time before I have any need to upgrade.

As for all those hacks like disabling Windows Update, replacing the Start Menu etc, I prefer to stay on the standard so that the system is stable and there are less things to check if it becomes unstable.

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

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Post by n4bz0r »

worldsayshi wrote: post #202
k8sToGo wrote: post #47

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Norton already installs a miner for you.

Are you serious?

Yes and no. If I got this right: they do have miner functionality built-in that you can opt-in to use for your benefit. But they take 15%.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29795910

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

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Post by makapuf »

ur-whale wrote: post #187
gvExwLi6sU wrote: post #127

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Had to install Windows 11 yesterday and the fresh install had Facebook, TikTok, Xing, Spotify and more on the start menu as shortcuts. No clue, if they are actually fully installed but I was able deinstall and remove them through the context menu. May vary for other contries as Xing is very specific and only relevant for German speaking countries.

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Maybe GP is required by its employer / an autoupdate.

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

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Post by cookie_monsta »

jiggawatts wrote: post #136
CommanderData wrote: post #41

Windows Update uses all disk space on space limited VMs hosting various services, disabling it has become more difficult (Disabling the service doesn't work anymore, recently a helper service to restart it was released) Which has led to something a bit drastic but I haven't looked back - blocking all Windows IP's on router level for the VM address space. I still run updates every few months. Edit: If anyone want's a…

Oh, that's nothing . Windows Update can forcefully power-on a sleeping laptop, and then do 100% CPU load for a decent chunk of an hour whether you like it or not... ... while your laptop is in your laptop bag. This destroyed one laptop for me already. It very nearly caught fire on a crowded train with no way to even throw it off for safety. I keep saying: Microsoft will keep ramming this crap down people's throats un…

What does "very nearly caught fire" mean? Was smoke coming oot? Not doubting, just curious.

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

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Post by joana035 »

ivanmontillam wrote: post #218
ur-whale wrote: post #187

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Nobody forces anyone to install an OS, but he probably meant that he was pressured into, not by someone but by the very conditions of software. My example: I had to return to Windows a while back because I rely heavily on Zoom Meetings, and Zoom in Linux is just near unusable.

Zoom works okay in Linux via web browser.

EDIT: I use Firefox.

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

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Post by SirTiddlesworth »

capableweb wrote: post #210
prohobo wrote: post #14

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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.

> I can only see there being an advantage for some game developers to be using it these days Maybe for developers writing games in C++ or their own engines (or small time engines), but for many, how is it better? As far as I know, out of the most popular engines, only Godot actually offers out-of-the-box Linux support. Unreal, Unity, CryEngine and the others don't offer Linux support for their editors, although some…

Unity has supported Linux for a few years now.

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

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Post by kalleboo »

buro9 wrote: post #151

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…

I click links in my email client, chat client, Twitter client, etc

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

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Post by makapuf »

unicornfinder wrote: post #18
prohobo wrote: post #14

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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.

Indeed. I'm a web developer and my tools genuinely work better just under native Linux than they ever could with WSL etc.

Would love to, but my employer has complex network settings (using 802.11X..), specific vpn client, im software, hw auth tokens with specific drivers and Windows shares and ntlm proxies all of which that makes integrating to the internal network with Linux a part time job. I gave up and set up a vm with Linux keeping windows do its thing.
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