Windows 10 and 11 retail "user experience" seems to be written with telemetry in mind. You as a home user don't even need to pay for windows anymore if you are ok with the watermark. However you shouldn't mess with their telemetry-exporter-disguised-as-a-chrome-reskin golden egg.
Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
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Re: Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround
#102Ok I’ll take the contrarian view. Why is it a big deal that a specialized url scheme is specifically intended to launch a Microsoft browser? Only apps built by Microsoft will use that scheme.
Because Microsoft makes Windows, and therefore can force anything Windows tries to open to use that scheme. This means you can never view search results, weather, news, etc. that Windows provides to you integrated into its experience in any browser other than edge.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
But keep in mind the fact that any parts of Windows using microsoft-edge: URLs for any reason whatsoever is itself anticompetitive behavior.
Is it really? If I have an OS and I want to deeply integrate the browser into the OS for use-cases other than general browsing of the web, why can't there be browser specific URLs to accomplish that? Is there a complete list of microsoft-edge:// use cases? I know there is a News integration to the taskbar. I love standards but sometimes you have edge use cases that the entire world doesn't need or can adopt. Why can'…
The microsoft-edge links just open normal web pages. Most are just Bing searches. It isn't deep integration.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
That gives me four years for the tools that lock me to Windows to decide to port to literally any other OS.
I'm not old and I have lived to see this sentiment come and go at least twice before. We're still on Windows.
On the other hand, some of it sticks. For one thing, gaming on Linux has improved by leaps and bounds approximately since the announcement of Windows 10.
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#106Didn't they lose a pretty big antitrust lawsuit over this a couple decades ago? Has the regulatory landscape changed to the point that they think they can just start this right up again? Or is it more, there's no way anyone could believe a Microsoft browser could dominate anymore?
Microsoft is no longer a monopolist. The world has changed dramatically since 1995-1997.
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Alder Lake needed a new scheduler. So any 12th generation Intel build will greatly benefit from Win11 scheduler over Win10.
Microsoft could have given us the new scheduler without all the antifeatures, but they didn't.
You can say that about the vast majority of upgrades that come with a new OS version if you isolate them. But at the end of the day, they are going to end up bundling a bunch of upgrades together to form a new OS version for a variety of reasons that usually aren't strictly technical.
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
That gives me four years for the tools that lock me to Windows to decide to port to literally any other OS.
I'm not old and I have lived to see this sentiment come and go at least twice before. We're still on Windows.
Then why wait? Programs like Photoshop and Ableton Live work just fine through WINE. I have a hard time imagining what kind of software you can't replace on modern Linux...
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
That gives me four years for the tools that lock me to Windows to decide to port to literally any other OS.
I'm not old and I have lived to see this sentiment come and go at least twice before. We're still on Windows.
Thankfully we have options. I'm planning on moving my main desktop to Arch over my Christmas break from work. It's been a while since I ran Linux as my main desktop, my only complaints have been around gaming performance. I have a friend who plays the same games as I do and he's got everything working on his Arch install. That's really the only thing that holds me on Windows and if it's as smooth of a transition as I believe it currently is then I just have no reason to not give it another fair shake.
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#110Microsoft is making me seriously reconsider using Windows for my Alienware gaming PC. Does anyone know if there's a version of the Alienware, Steelseries, and Razer control software for Linux?
Be prepared to have a VM and pass through devices to it in order to configure them. "Gamer device" manufacturers easily the worst of the worst when it comes to Linux support. OpenRGB may provide some relief.
And Windows support, too! "Gamer device" configuration software is 98% a shitshow, the other 2% is just about tolerable.