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Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge
#32It’s even faster if you avoid a product with Microsoft bloat. What they’re been doing to Windows 11 with widgets, celebrity news, and failing to respect user’s default preferences is atrocious.
The extreme clickbaityness of the msn homepage that is in the browser and the start menu makes me have a very bad feeling about windows. I do not like it at all. I would assume the Windows PMs would not like it either but I guess someone has some target that they need to reach? I feel like it underscores what a cheap/bad product windows feels like. Even though, technically it is fine (and I know you can turn it off,…
>extreme clickbaityness of the msn homepage
If clickbait was the only problem. The site is full of scam ads. It really shows how much MS cares about the users.
Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge
#33Earlier 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…
To be fair, if you haven't used Windows at all in over a decade, you probably no longer have an informed view about it.
Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge
#34Dev tools lags in Edge. That being said, I probably trust Google more than Microsoft with my personal data
Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge
#35It’s even faster if you avoid a product with Microsoft bloat. What they’re been doing to Windows 11 with widgets, celebrity news, and failing to respect user’s default preferences is atrocious.
Totally agree. Other aspects of Windows are so good, such as WSL, but they completely ruin it with all of this.
Good thing you can disable all the bad things.
Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge
#36Why 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 Win…
I'd echo this comment... years ago I got my mum (now 86) to switch to a Chrome device as the only thing she does is email, facebook and manage her bank account.
Prior to this, I had quite a lot of tech support I had to do with her when she was running a Windows PC - for all sorts of things. Since then, never once have I had to do so, other than website help (i.e. what she's doing on a site). I'm no fan of Google (and use Firefox as my browser and have for years), but Chromebooks just work for these kind of use cases, and are the reliable appliance that computers should be.
Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge
#37I was using it for a long time for enterprise stuff but the same happened with Edge what happened with Windows: it became bloated and annoying and it’s too much work to turn off all privacy intrusive features.
Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge
#38This blog highlights one of the reasons I’m so skeptical about AI replacing software engineers. All of the analysis, decision to put forth telemetry and build that system, then take the results and figure out how to redo the UI (and decide to make that a priority)… I don’t see any path towards this in the near term using AI.
Near term passes very quickly.
Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge
#39Why 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…
Have you thought about setting up Linux for him? Linux works great and if your Dad only uses web apps then Linux with Firefox should work perfectly for him!
Re: An even faster Microsoft Edge
#40I 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…
FWIW I've been using Edge for 4+ years now (since Chromium) and I've never had it ask me any questions on an update. The worst it did was restore my tabs after updates when I specifically configured it to never restore tabs, but that's been fixed for some time now.