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Last Windows 11 update changed all default browser settings to Edge

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

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Post by CommanderData »

Windows Update uses all disk space on space limited VMs hosting various services, disabling it has become more difficult (Disabling the service doesn't work anymore, recently a helper service to restart it was released)

Which has led to something a bit drastic but I haven't looked back - blocking all Windows IP's on router level for the VM address space. I still run updates every few months.

Edit: If anyone want's a list of IPs here's one that I use and is maintained somewhat regularly : https://github.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/tree/master/d...

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

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Post by Ygg2 »

prohobo wrote: post #14
pizza234 wrote: post #4

> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? I don't; I develop on Linux. Ignoring this, within my very limited usage of Windows, it seems to me that MS has become increasingly more hostile over the last few years or so. To answer with something actionable: I discourage people from upgrading to Windows 11.

Yeah, the answer is to simply not use Windows. I can only see there being an advantage for some game developers to be using it these days. Linux is actually a much better OS for techies: you can make it look nicer, have a better workflow, and you can really play games now that Steam Deck brought so much focus on Linux compatibility. Otherwise, Mac OS is doing just fine as well.

> Yeah, the answer is to simply not use Windows.

Yeah, no.

You either switch to Mac and lose 99% of your applications and some of your hardware.

Or you switch to Linux and lose 90% of your applications and latest hardware; And enjoy random problems and figuring out which of hundred answers online is right. Answer could be none, because for example Wayland support for multiple monitors sucks.

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

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Post by kelnos »

SantiagoElf wrote: post #6
pizza234 wrote: post #4

> How do you deal with Microsoft's crap on a daily basis? I don't; I develop on Linux. Ignoring this, within my very limited usage of Windows, it seems to me that MS has become increasingly more hostile over the last few years or so. To answer with something actionable: I discourage people from upgrading to Windows 11.

Windows is pretty much alive and kicking. The best it has been since Windows XP. WSL2, running Linux on Windows, VS Code, VS 2022, it's all good. Windows 11 is VERY solid and you can play lots of games on it too :) I am dead serious. I have been using Windows since 3, using betas of Microsoft products since Longhorn - right now, Windows is reaching it's PEAK in terms of performance, ecosystem. Sure, they will need 2-…

I started running Windows back with version 3 as well, but gave up after 2000. I won't run an OS that I can't trust, and and OS that pulls the kind of thing that happened to OP is not one that I can trust.

I don't care how "solid" or performant it is. And I don't need WSL2 when I can just run Linux directly.

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

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Post by SantiagoElf »

square_usual wrote: post #31
SantiagoElf wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have been using Linux since Redhat 6.2 back in 1998. I have had my share of xconfig edits, bash scripts, etc explorations. I am now reaching 36, I just like 'things that work' - like Windows. Windows works with all my hardware, with all my 7 laptops, with all my 2 towers, I can install Visual Studio 2022 on it, I can install Ubuntu in WSL2 and I can play Dota2/Civ/Baldur's Gate/Warhammer 40k Insquisitor Martyr/list…

It's not 1998 any more. Nobody worries about their linux setup unless they want to. My pop os tower has been set up and forget for years now.

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

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Post by dtx1 »

Thank you Valve for making 90% of games i like available on linux. Windows Free for 5 years and counting. Desktop Linux has lot's of issues and annoyances but at least I can have reasonable trust that the developers behind the software I use don't have any incentive to fuck me over with mandatory browser switches or privacy nightmare "telemetry".

More interesting Question imo: If I can't trust Microsoft not to fuck with my desktop settings to maximize their revenue from bing adds via edge, why should anyone trust Microsoft not to do the same with azure?

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

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Post by k8sToGo »

xenator wrote: post #27

Next step will be installed crypto miners by default? I still remember days when I knew every process on my laptop and know most of their settings keys. Software moved into direction I don't appreciate.

Norton already installs a miner for you.

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

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Post by eps »

xenator wrote: post #27

Next step will be installed crypto miners by default? I still remember days when I knew every process on my laptop and know most of their settings keys. Software moved into direction I don't appreciate.

Symantec got this covered already.

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

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Post by dtx1 »

IiydAbITMvJkqKf wrote: post #22

Arch linux is unironically more stable than Windows 10+. Not saying it doesn't have its problems, but it has WAY less than Windows.

That strongly depends on "your" arch linux setup. My Sway/Wayland only system is not stable at all, but that's not what i need in a desktop/gaming setup
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