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Speaking of, I'd love to get rid of the mandatory search bar on the Android home screen.
I think android let's you install whatever home screen you like
Other devices force you back to the default homescreen whenever you activate the google assistant via long pressing the home button, and you can't disable it.
Luckily both behaviours seem to be a minority.
It's super annoying, and doesn't seem to be a way to just disallow that behavior without uninstalling the apps (which I think with Edge you can't do anymore).
I'm very tempted to try a Linux installation on my next device, it might actually be worth the extra effort now.
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> The only real issues these days are with anti-cheat stuff in competitive multiplayer games Every game I play is a competitive multiplayer game.
With which anticheats? BattleEye and EasyAnticheat work pretty well with Proton nowadays, you won't have luck with stuff like Ricochet though.
Extra links for those who want to look:
https://www.protondb.com/explore?selectedFilters=antiCheat&s...
Just open up a command line, change directory to your Desktop, and type: attrib +h "Microsoft Edge.lnk" Then you never have to see it again.
Unless you have set hidden files as visible as some of us do.
(But doesn't help if that setting is also disabled)
Also windows 11 keeps enabling windows defender real time protection. This behavior is common on windows: do not respect user preferences.
Can confirm this is happening as well. I keep deleting it but it keeps coming back. Oh well, I might write a script to delete it automatically.
But remember, it's Linux that's only free if you don't value your time;)
Last week I had to invest so much brain power to get around Microsoft’s dark patterns after installing an update. No, I don’t want to use Edge because it’s “safer”. No, I don’t want to redeem one month “free” of 365. No, please don’t “protect” my files with OneDrive. I am getting angry again from just enumerating this.
It appears as though you can add a registry entry to prevent this behavior. I found details in the ms.edge admx documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-... (An admx is for adding group policy templates but group policy is essentially a nice list of registry changes. You (reader) can find the reg entry and enter it manually or might can download and install the admx package and make t…
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A theoretically perfect but largely non-viable solution.
if you're someone who is willing to invest time into researching regedit workarounds (which will eventually reset or cease to work), then looking into desktop linux is perfectly viable...and not theoretically, but practically perfect. i used to do an enormous amount of Windows XP regedit tweaking and customization, using sysprep, rolling service packs into new ISOs, making use of https://ryanvm.net/forum/ scripts. al…
It's just a shame Windows is the only operating system in the world, otherwise we could all use something else.