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

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Post by sandworm101 »

prawn wrote: post #219
qbasic_forever wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Frustrating thing is it's hard to escape. It's petty, but one of the most infuriating episodes of my life was Apple forcing that U2 album into everyone iOS owner's existence and making it difficult (impossible at the time?) to delete. I'd forgotten all about it until, a couple of phones later, it reappeared as the first song played every time I connected my phone to the car. Petty, like I said, but enraging. Having s…

That is not petty. An entertainment device that doesnt follow orders, doesnt play what you want it to play, fails its primary function. It should be repaired (good luck) or dumped.

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

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

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.

Indeed. I, on the other hand, use Windows all day every day and I'm a vocal critic of the Linux Desktop, yet Microsoft has convinced me that it hates personal computing so much that the Windows Desktop will be the worse option (for my uses) in the near future.

Hell, even outside of trashing the desktop experience, we've noted that we used to get support for our SQL issues directly from Microsoft employees and were escalated to engineers in short order for data corruption issues, we now deal with a third party company for support and they're basically worthless. We pay for this treatment. It's absurd.

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

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Post by jevoten »

gambiting wrote: post #154
rightbyte wrote: post #140

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> 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.

How is this not a feature then? Yes I'm ok with my browsing history and bookmarks and tabs and extensions and everything else being synced using google servers because it makes my life easier. 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 m…

> Yes it means Volvo now knows all of my travel history.

No it doesn't. The features you listed could be implemented without the data reaching Volvo's servers at all, or reaching them in only an encrypted form, to which only you have the key. A better way to phrase it is that Volvo allows you to track your journeys, and they spy on you. The two features are separate.

95% of the time, the privacy-convenience tradeoff is nothing but a false excuse for spyware.

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

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Post by jmrm »

I have Windows 10 because Windows 7 stopped updating and some software can have some problems with it, otherwise I would totally continue using it. I plan to do the same with Windows 10 and Windows 11.

I have enough crap every time I install Windows 10, needing to use ShutUp10, other "debloaters", and having to use the task scheduler to remove telemetry tasks, so I don't need more things to delete with Windows 11.

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

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

nulbyte wrote: post #286
kdtsh wrote: post #277

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I finally transitioned to Linux on my work desktop at the end of last year, after using WSL for a number of years and Linux on my home desktops for ages. I found that managing a Windows 10 VM in virt-manager for all the Windows-specific stuff is fine at the moment - nothing in particular has broken in my workflow. I find there’s slightly less mental overhead, but I haven’t yet figured out a good way to manage little…

Can you elaborate on your issues with VNC? I'm not sure what you mean by not being able to 'steal a session. Are you using Wayland or X11? I understand there may be some differences, but haven't explored them. GNOME has desktop sharing built-in. I believe it is VNC based, but maybe you'll have better luck with something built into GNOME. SSH forwarding works fine for single apps, but for a true remote X desktop, I've…

> Can you elaborate on your issues with VNC? I'm not sure what you mean by not being able to 'steal a session.

With RDP on Windows, if I stay logged in with programs running and walk away from my computer and remote in to it, I will get the same session I left open. Unlike VNC, this session will resize everything to fit my client's preferences because it isn't just passing screenshots or a video feed of the desktop back.

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

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Post by 2pEXgD0fZ5cF »

jmrm wrote: post #288
2pEXgD0fZ5cF wrote: post #115

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> Windows just works. I use Windows for audio recording, mixing, mastering and gaming, here are my examples of Windows not "just work"ing: My Windows bluescreens immediately after booting on my Threadripper build with an MSI MEG x399 if I don't have the wifi driver installed. On a new install I have to deactivate it in UEFI settings, then boot/install windows, then install the driver before reactivating it. Windows U…

A friend decided to have a Mac to use Pro Tools, FL Studio, Cubase, and other DAWs because of those problems. It's sad that those software isn't available in Linux.

> It's sad that those software isn't available in Linux.

It truly is, the only part on music production that is keeping me is not even the DAWs themselves (I mainly use Cubase and Reaper, and Reaper already offers a Linux build, which works well), it's the VST plugins, which rarely if ever offer Linux versions.

Other music software I make heavy use of: Transcribe!, which offers a linux build and Musescore, which is open source and runs on Linux as well.

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

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

lionkor wrote: post #184
Ygg2 wrote: post #96

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> 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…

You're just making stuff up now. I bought an RTX 2070 (nvidia, as you know), and it worked fine, runs all my games, under archlinux just fine. Same with dual, triple monitors, etc.

> You're just making stuff up now.

Linux Desktop evangelists being like this also makes people not want to switch. Who wants to deal with a community like that?

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

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Post by 0xTJ »

At this point, it's more likely that I permanently switch to Linux than it is that I upgrade to Windows 11. I was pacified and relatively content with Windows 10, but Microsoft is rapidly destroying the good will they accumulated with stuff like WSL (even if that's just a way to keep people from switching to Linux) and VSCode (which I might continue to use on Linux).
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