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Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge

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Post by toast0 »

Double_a_92 wrote: post #18
moshegramovsky wrote: post #16

Why doesn't Microsoft realize that Edge just isn't happening? I was a * huge* Microsoft fan boy for decades. Like, I eagerly awaited releases of the products I used like Windows and Visual Studio and Excel and on and on. It was thrilling to use NT with the Windows 95 skin when it was available in beta. Sorry to nerd out so hard, but I just loved their products. Now they're just making Windows worse and worse and wors…

There wasn't even something wrong with Edge when it started. It was basically Chrome, but preinstalled. But now they had to fill it with bloat and spyware...

Edge was pretty bad before they replaced it with Chrome Edge.

The rendering engine was nicer than ie, but they built a queue between the UI and the browser engine, so navigation including the stop button didn't interrupt the work in progress until it polled the queue, which could be seconds later when it had gotten stuck (as browsers do), and then it would go ahead and do the many actions you had queued up.

Reskinned Chrome is less bad, I guess.

Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge

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Post by imiric »

moshegramovsky wrote: post #16

Why doesn't Microsoft realize that Edge just isn't happening? I was a * huge* Microsoft fan boy for decades. Like, I eagerly awaited releases of the products I used like Windows and Visual Studio and Excel and on and on. It was thrilling to use NT with the Windows 95 skin when it was available in beta. Sorry to nerd out so hard, but I just loved their products. Now they're just making Windows worse and worse and wors…

> The funny thing is that my Dad only had a Windows PC so he can run one app: Chrome.

So get him a Chromebook or a tablet? He doesn't need Windows to run a browser.

If he does still want Windows for some reason, there are ways of de-bloating the installation. It takes some initial technical work, but in the end you can be relatively sure that it's free from all intrusive software. You still have to be vigilant of Windows Update, but you can also turn that off, and run it manually, or cherry pick the updates you want.

Microsoft makes it difficult to run a clean version of Windows, but if you still want to use it there are ways of cleaning it up.

Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge

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Post by moi2388 »

imjonse wrote: post #15
jmkni wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally agree. Other aspects of Windows are so good, such as WSL, but they completely ruin it with all of this.

So one of the main good aspects of Windows is that it can run Linux :) ?

Linux and office. Other than that, what does it really offer?

Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge

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Post by SavageBeast »

imjonse wrote: post #15
jmkni wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Totally agree. Other aspects of Windows are so good, such as WSL, but they completely ruin it with all of this.

So one of the main good aspects of Windows is that it can run Linux :) ?

If edge is the browser you use for downloading Chrome, maybe Windows is the OS you use to get and install Linux? I feel sorry for people who's employers mandate Windows or are dependent on some Windows only critical software. I know its not everyones cup of tea but its really nice over here in MacBook land. If you're not somehow held hostage on Windows, maybe drop by a store sometime and give OSX a roll? I haven't been forced to run Windows in about 10 years and I haven't missed it one single time.

Im not at all opposed to Linux either but I can run a real shell on OSX and all my scripts.sh run just the same locally as they do on my cloud Linux deployments - and thats enough for me personally.

Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge

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Post by nickserv »

SavageBeast wrote: post #24
imjonse wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So one of the main good aspects of Windows is that it can run Linux :) ?

If edge is the browser you use for downloading Chrome, maybe Windows is the OS you use to get and install Linux? I feel sorry for people who's employers mandate Windows or are dependent on some Windows only critical software. I know its not everyones cup of tea but its really nice over here in MacBook land. If you're not somehow held hostage on Windows, maybe drop by a store sometime and give OSX a roll? I haven't be…

From one anti-consumer, anti-choice overlord to another? Yeah... I'll stick to open source, thanks.

Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge

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Post by qwerty456127 »

I once switched from Firefox to Chrome on old PCs because Firefox felt intolerably slow. I still use some of these PCs, including semi-old ones on which Firefox feels tolerably slow so I use Firefox. I expected Edge to be at least as as fast as Chrome but no, it feels more slow than Firefox. It also asks many questions (no, I don't want to make it the default nor to sign-in, nor to let it itself cookie-track me, and this still is not everything it asks about) every time it updates.

Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge

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Post by imjonse »

SavageBeast wrote: post #24
imjonse wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So one of the main good aspects of Windows is that it can run Linux :) ?

If edge is the browser you use for downloading Chrome, maybe Windows is the OS you use to get and install Linux? I feel sorry for people who's employers mandate Windows or are dependent on some Windows only critical software. I know its not everyones cup of tea but its really nice over here in MacBook land. If you're not somehow held hostage on Windows, maybe drop by a store sometime and give OSX a roll? I haven't be…

Use edge to download Firefox ;)
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