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

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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.

Not that I care about zoom, but screen sharing is in a problematic state since the introduction of Wayland:

- If you use X.org, things are mostly fine because there are no security barriers and screen capturing has been done the same way since forever.

- If you use Wayland, this used to be impossible because Wayland doesn't allow it for security reasons. To get screen sharing to work:

1. A new protocol had to be invented for it (pipewire)

2. Every compositor (read: every major Desktop Environment like KDE or Gnome) had to implement the funcitonality. Among other things, the compositor is now responsible for showing a permissions dialog where the user authorizes an application to capture the screen (or _a_ screen, or a single window).

3. Every application that wants to capture the screen/a window/etc. has to request access through this new protocol and read the capture through it.

To make things worse, pipewire itself has been evolving, meaning that both compositors and applications may only support certain versions but not others. In the end, this means that if you are running the latest versions of all these things (wayland, de, browser) and enable all flags that say "pipewire" in your browser, it will work just fine. If you have older software it may work partially (e.g.: you can share a single window but not the entire screen and stuff like that) or it may not work at all.

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

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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…

To be fair it also happens on my MacBook. I charged my computer and placed it on my bag, asleep and unplugged, before a trip. I was not pleased to find it hot in the morning and at 60% battery.

One of my colleagues has a MacBook that managed to toast its own screen into a lovely golden brown.

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

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> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis

I just don't bother with the concept of "default browser".

I use Portable FF for my main usage, I have firewall in a outbound whitelist mode, so in a rare circumstance something opens Edge... it's not going anywhere.

The only bother I had is with GitHub authenticator which doesn't have the option to just copy the auth link and opens the default browser. I copy the link from there and paste it in FF.

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

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> 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 d…

I use Win10 on work and Linux at home. Last week I had to help some "not-so-tech" guy to copy and paste files in the Win11 File Explorer. Now there are just Icons for copy, paste etc. But there are two kind of computer user. The one who just use the shortcut and the other with the menu. But now they search for "copy" or "paste" but now there is no menu entry. There are just Icons on top of the context menu. So a less…

And the problem with icons is you can no longer tell someone over the phone, "click copy" or "click paste". Now it's something like, "click on the icon that looks like a clip board" or "click on the icon that looks like multiple pieces of paper" followed by "nothing happened" and then trying to figure out that they clicked on the wrong icon because they still couldn't figure out which icon because it wasn't something obvious like text, it was a subjective icon.

Maybe some blind people could sue Microsoft? I can only imagine that it has gotten harder for screen reading software.

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

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> 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…

If anyone from Microsoft is reading:

If this is true, find a way to FIRE THOSE PEOPLE OR FORCE THEM TO USE WINDOWS!

I don't care how great they are (on paper), or how kewl MacOS is, they should either walk the walk or get out. I'm sure there still are more than enough designers willing to work on products used by 1 billion people.

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

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Either install Linux or accept that the actual owner of your PC (and no, this is not you). is going to do whatever they want with it. There is no third option really. "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart." M. Aurelius

I absolutely agree, but just want to say that when trying to promote this sentiment, you really should be saying "GNU" or "GNU/Linux" rather than just "Linux".

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

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post #219

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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…

It also had weird cover art which, while artistic, was borderline NSFW and not what I wanted to have pop up every time I got in my car. Apple makes weird decisions sometimes.

I finally contacted Apple support to have the album removed, years after the fact, because I switched to Apple Music. And felt nervous about having, in my open floor plan workplace, a shirtless man tenderly caressing another shirtless man's crotch with his face every time I opened the app. There was literally no way to change this default behavior, because Apple are control freaks.

As an added kicker, I stressed over it for a couple of weeks first, worried about whether I was being homophobic or not.

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

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post #219

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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…

I believe it was impossible. You could hide it but even that was a bit tricky to finding. They did eventually come up with a website where you could scrub it from your account. It wasn't even just iOS owners but everybody with an iTunes account.

As per the sibling link to Apple's support it's impossible again to remove it without contacting support.

> It sounds like you did some great research on this, and you're right. Customers are no longer able to remove the album on their own. You will need to reach out to Apple Support directly to have the album removed.

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

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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.

Every time a feature update happens they show the "get started" (iirc) screen over again. Every time if you just click accept/next without reading it resets your default browser and search engine.

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

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Since this is a pretty much install-linux thread, I’d like to ask fellow HN-ers which system should I try again. I have a rich experience with linux in the past, but modern OSes turn me off. They are windows-y, just without crap/spyware. Which DE/FM will allow me to configure menus? E.g. “git push” item on a folder containing .git, “npm run myscript” on a folder containing package.json. Which DE has presets for windo…

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