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

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Post by open-source-ux »

hutzlibu wrote: post #373
open-source-ux wrote: post #359

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I'm also shocked to hear that designers at Microsoft are designing features for Windows on a Mac. I presume these are 'UX Designers' or 'Interaction Designers'. Imagine the opposite scenario for Apple and how absurd it sounds: designers at Apple designing features for MacOS or iOS using Windows OS laptops. This prompts the following question: What design apps are the Microsoft designers using on a Mac that they can't…

"What design apps are the Microsoft designers using on a Mac that they can't use on a Windows machine? (Is it Mac-only Sketch?)" The main designer tools, as far as I am aware, are bundled in the Adobe suite and that works on windows, as well as Mac. But there are tons of other designer apps, that are Mac only - but I would assume it is mainly a designer thing to have Macs - they have been succesfully marketed (and to…

It's ironic that Microsoft promote their Surface Book models with pen pressure screens as ideal for all artists and designers. Except for their own designers who appear to prefer Macs.

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

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Post by gambiting »

rightbyte wrote: post #349
f1refly wrote: post #280

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What do you gain from having every single journey in your app and seeing the fuel consumption? Have you ever actually looked at those stats? I think I've never in my life been in a situation where I thought "Dang, I wish I knew how much kilometers my last 18 trips where, if only I had some kind of tracking device that kept these stats for me!"

And if you need that, my -98 Volvo got a little pin on the dash you can press to zero a sub-odometer. It also reset the fuel consumption average. So, ye, no need for spyware. Google biggest sin is normalizing all these spywares embedded in everything. It is spreading everywhere, even my Samsung TV, and legislators are like 10 years behind were they should have started to "GDPR" everything.

>>And if you need that, my -98 Volvo got a little pin on the dash you can press to zero a sub-odometer. It also reset the fuel consumption average. So, ye, no need for spyware.

Not sure how this would work in a PHEV where the car is seamlessly switching between EV and ICE running, or in fact compliments ICE with the EV motor. You need the internal reads from the ECU to know exactly how much electricity/petrol was consumed.

You could - of course - provide that without syncing it externally to any servers and then avoid the whole privacy issue.

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

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Post by TheRealDunkirk »

4cao wrote: post #251

> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? I don't use Windows 11. On Windows 10, I modify the installation image with DISM, removing as much of the unnecessary and user-hostile stuff as possible. (Some of these packages are hidden but can be un-hidden and then uninstalled anyway. Edge can also be completely removed at this stage.) I make extensive changes to the registry that disable all the unwanted…

I don't want to see anyone around here criticizing how much "work" it is to run Linux after this comment.

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Post by cortic »

gruez wrote: post #375
cortic wrote: post #331

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My advice would be to take control of your own security. Microsoft do not have your best interests at heart.

take control how? installing adblock and not downloading from shady websites isn't going to save you from stuff like BlueKeep.

As the NSA recommend, disable Remote Desktop Services and its associated port (TCP 3389). But I'm also not saying don't update. I'm saying choose when you want to update and what you want to update. Use your own firewall and virus software, lock down your own system.

Forgive me for being glib but; Leaving a backdoor for good old papa Gates to protect you is a bad strategy.

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

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Post by AnIdiotOnTheNet »

po1nter wrote: post #327
w4rh4wk5 wrote: post #290

> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? I've been exclusively using Windows 10 since 2016 on my main rig as well as my laptop. While there are a lot of small annoyances, for me, it's been far from _on a daily basis_. I'd say, from 360 days in the year, I spend maybe 10 days dealing with some Windows bullshittery. These are the things I changed on my system: - Disable Windows Defender real-time scann…

> Disable Windows Defender real-time scanning and related scheduled tasks. Why do this?

Because real-time malware scanning causes way more trouble than it is worth. It adds latency to every file open on the off chance that it might contain some kind of identifiably malicious code. That might be mildly useful if I had any faith it could actually detect the majority of malware, but I don't. In fact, the only things I've ever seen it identify reliably are any kind of piracy or forensics tools.

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Post by prima-facie »

dTal wrote: post #351
hnlmorg wrote: post #59

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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…

>My experience with Linux has been that you have the same install running for 10+ years (this is especially true for Arch because you have fewer risky distribution upgrades), Arch is needy; it commits seppuku if you abandon it for too long. Every update on Arch is a "risky distribution upgrade", and it insists that you update every day. On the other hand, I have kept Debian installs going for a great many years, with…

I've been running basically the same Arch install since 2009:

> zcat /var/log/pacman.log.1.gz-2018010214.backup | head

[2009-02-23 18:14] installed filesystem (2009.01-1)

You can hedge against any distro breaking by using a volume manager which allows snapshots of the root volume, or even better, creates these snapshots automatically before a distro upgrade. Both LVM and Btrfs can do this. I use LVM because I love boring tech.

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Post by chronogram »

formerly_proven wrote: post #323
0xedd wrote: post #261

Tipping point, for using ms products in general, was malware posing as an Asus driver /s. Fresh windows 10 install. Installed a bunch of drivers fresh off the vendor's site. Asus driver installation installed some GUI i didn't much care for, Armoury Crate. Well, no problem, right? One can extract the cab/inf files and let windows add the driver rather than use the vendor's executable. Wrong. Trying to uninstall the d…

fwiw you don't have to download drivers yourself, vendors are perfectly happy to distribute barely-uninstallable Adware using Windows Update. This is not limited to pre-built machines, either.

I hate that on my Latitude. After installing Windows 11 without internet I applied 3 different methods of disabling the automatic installation of drivers: group policy, control panel, and the registry. I rebooted to make double sure, and after connecting to the internet the first thing it does is install the Dell Maxxaudio crapware. You have to then go to the device manager to install the Microsoft audio drivers over it, then remove the crapware, but you’re not allowed to remove the app for it. Terribly annoying.

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Post by makapuf »

flatiron wrote: post #278
makapuf wrote: post #230

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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.

Any reason to not use wsl? I’m forced to either use windows/Mac at work and chose windows with wsl. Works reasonably well. I just live in WSL and use office (which is better than MAC office by a large margin)

wsl needs to be administrator if I'm not mistaken, plus needs internal network which may/may not be allowed by the antivirus/firewall package, I prefer no to spend too much neurons on windows debugging / internals and keep them for linux

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

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Post by ivanmontillam »

artemave wrote: post #244
ivanmontillam wrote: post #218

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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.

Please elaborate. I've been pair programming on zoom for years (Ubuntu, i3wm). So had my colleague on Elementary and another one on Fedora. It's clearly usable. EDIT: via native app that is

What I needed most back then was to remote control my peer's computer (as in, providing Tech Support) and that's where the UI/UX is not as polished as the Windows version.

I didn't use the web version, because it's not possible to control the remote host that way.

It was very quirky (taking control and giving up control + the keystrokes needed to be used in the remote host) and getting in the way of providing effective Tech Support (the meeting bar flickered several times). Anything else worked fine, like holding the audio meeting itself.

So, I had to return to Windows, just because of Zoom.

EDIT: Typo.

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