When will they ever learn?
I prefer Firefox, so I was using that as default browser. Windows asked me every fucking time I started my laptop if I wanted to use edge as default. Sometimes it just went ahead and made the change anyway. Windows was consuming loads of my download data, fuck knows what for. Then the copilot stuff. Finally installed mint and feel like I got my laptop back.
Windows was consuming loads of my download data, fuck knows what for.
Background updates of all the minor services running. I only had 360kbit/s for a while two years ago and windows could take a few hours until it was finished. You usually don’t notice it but I literally couldn’t use the internet until windows decided it was done.
Was there no registry key that you could modify to stop that behaviour?
Like in the old days, you open windows, and an internet explorer pop‑up appears.
Every shitty new idea in Redmond will just generate more Linux users.
they are constantly looking for reasons to turn people away from their products
Slopya Nadella: “Oh no, people are complaining this is the worst windows ever! We must do something!”
and this is the result. /slowclap
I’ve seen this episode before…something something IE something something Netscape
in 98 they were taken to court because at one point you couldn’t even uninstall IE from your PC since, if I remember correctly, It was so tied into the file explorer it would break your system. they also made it difficult to download alternatives like Netscape.
I remember my Dad had a thing for “eMachines” PCs because A. they were cheap and B. most of the time they came preinstalled with Netscape as opposed to IE and he liked Netscape a lot better. Problem with this though is I liked to play X-Wing vs Tie Fighter and Jedi Knight online and the easiest way to do so was via Microsofts Internet Gaming Zone which ONLY worked on IE. and downloading/installing IE in the late 90s on a dial up connection took forever. and THEN once you did install it good luck uninstalling it.
Firefox was born fron Netscape.
Remembered using it in college and it was good. Mostly now use Firefox.
Ironically edge is installed on our Arch box as the Boss needs it for work.
It’s fine.
More people for Linux!
“Funny” news that bring me back to the last time I decided to switch to Linux.
I updated windows 10 and when my PC booted I got a full screen to setup edge. I wasn’t able to find any way to quit the screen. So I completed the set up and went to install Linux.
It’s crazy how they believe they own the PC of their customers… I mean, it’s in the name… Personal…
The OS should get out of my way as much as possible.
Just like government. This capitalist, privacy nightmare timeline sucks.
I wonder what the solution to a capitalist privacy nightmare is… /s
Shareholder value!
Well I want Microsoft to take a big step back and fuck their own face
Edge will connect to the online Windows remote OS server so you can run your applications in it and access your data from the MS data servers. How convenient.
Good thing uninstall is a function right?
You can uninstall it, or disable the startup. They aren’t getting rid of that ability.
It looks like you’re trying to install a programme, let me help you . . . [link to microsoft app store].
As a computer user with ~30 years’ experience with Windows: why? Why does the browser need to open? Since Windows 98, the OS and the browser have shared common elements. Those get preloaded already whether you like it or not. This is how IE got its performance gains and this is how Edge gets them as well. Firefox once had an extension that did a similar thing, it added a system tray icon that would preload parts of the browser. The effects were not that great, but some people kept it around. I suspect Chrome has similar things in Android/ChromeOS.
So generally I say this is fine, especially since you can opt out and it probably won’t touch business/enterprise, government users, and maybe even Windows 11 Pro users who are spared a lot of the bullshit.
As a Mac guy, I don’t think macOS is loading any part of Safari without permission. Safari isn’t part of Finder (the file manager), it’s not part of the OS aside from being included with it. I run Firefox full time on both my Macs.
And of course Linux is less likely to do this. They typically bundle Firefox (some bundle Chrome or something else) and Firefox isn’t really meant to do that out the gate, so I doubt it’s happening at all on Linux.
But even if I had 11 Home to game on, I’d just opt out, but also accept that it’s probably still loading parts of Edge that other parts of the OS use (like the help system, is that still a thing? Haven’t seen it since 98 or 2000 or maybe XP).
But also, my Macs and iPhone convert the Windows company to, let me just type it so I can show you, Microslop . Yeah, I set that up. It was funny for a while. It’s still funny. Maybe if it stops being funny, I’ll disable it.
It needs to happen because the MS Edge product manager has to meet some sort of arbitrary user level to get a bonus
