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Or the pirates
Or stay on Windows 10, if the pattern holds true Windows 12 might be decent again.
Idk what I can say about this except "lol"
Windows: System needs repairing Me: proceeds to install linux mint
When I made this, I did not expect I'd use it much. Then...Windows 11.
They about to find out the only reason people don't use Linux is because Windows is 'convenient.'
Pathetic.
"[...] switching the default search engine back to Bing [...] from Google Search (or whatever other browser is set as default)."
Google is a Browser now, neat. And somehow it's relevant in a post about search engines.
"Microsoft Edge, the default browser pre-installed on Windows machines, and Bing Search aren't bad products by any means - they are solid alternatives to Google's own Chrome and Search."
They may be good compared to Chrome and now also Google. But even rotten eggs are better than literal shit, at least for most people.
I just switched all my systems over to mint. I used to think Linux was the "just at work" environment. But now I'm flipping it. I'm sick of Windows, I know it's less hassle but my digital well-being needs a break from ads.
It is truly the year of the Linux desktop.
My grandma call me saying she's sick of Widows and its shenanigans and asked me to install gentoo on her machine next time I come around. Gonna be a fun weekend.
Grandma choosing USE flags already, get that bloat outta here
Here's a tool to permanently fix your windows installation from all this BS.
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I just rolled back my Win 11 to Win 10 only to use temporarily while I test some other distros to see which one(s) I like.
Shout out to Ventoy, my new favorite usb utility.
better than flashing usb flash drives to install operating systems.
Truly a "where have you been all my life" moment. It even works with recovery ISOs!
I'll never flash another usb again if I can help it.
I have a 128gb usb c flash drive that I just dropped a ton of distros onto and went to town. So far, EndeaverOS has been my favorite.
Stockholm Syndrome is the only explanation I can come up with at this point.
Stockholm Syndrome
Completely off topic: Stockholm syndrome gets its name from a hostage situation where the police seemed to show no care or concern for the hostages' safety and the captors did more to protect them than law enforcement. Of course the hostages' felt more empathy towards their captors.
According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police were acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages' safety. This forced the hostages to negotiate for their lives and releases with the robbers on their own. In the process, the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than the police negotiators and subsequently developed a deep distrust towards the latter.[9] Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire, and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire.
That's a really interesting bit of nuance that I'd never taken note of! Thanks!
Honestly I think many consumers go buy “computer” & have no concept that it has an operating system or that you can change it.
If you know there is an alternative, then yeah… wtf
100% true, I should have acknowledged that!
I remember the day when you had to buy Windows separate, and pay full retail. Later, you got a massive discount if you bought the disks with your computer. Then, it came preinstalled. Then, it started to get crappy and more buggy.
I find it funny, actually. For years, I used DOS, exclusively command line-based, on a 286 and when I got a new 486 computer in the early 90s I was so excited to get Windows 3.1 on it. Decades later, I find myself hating Windows and going back to Linux and often a command line. As far as I'm concerned, the closest thing to the last usable version of Windows was 7, and it still kinda sucked.
cd c:\oregontr
start .com
Good times. Good times....
(Edit. Added space in command, so it's not a website)
I’m still salty my current laptop is sold at a discount in the EU without a pre-installed OS due to laws in place--but where I am, I had no choice but to pay a Microsoft tax & immediately wipe it. I used to not connect to WiFi & just look around for a few minutes out of curiosity before wiping, but since 11 moved to Microsoft Account + WiFi required & all the telemetry on by default, I don’t even bother with that anymore.
And that's why I switched to Linux.
Switching to Linux won’t save you if Microsoft Edge takes such a huge market share that a lot of the internet starts to basically require it.
What would that be? Microsoft Edge is a Chromium browser, it can't do more with webpages than Chrome or any other of the bunch can.
Oh and Edge is available for Linux, so there's that. Not that I'd use it...
Microsoft can modify chromium. They can add proprietary things to it. Yes you could use edge if you have to critical pages that only works right on edge.
So wait, let me get this straight, people shouldn't install Linux to avoid windows because they might make edge somehow critical to the use of major websites? Why not just use Linux anyways since that's not happening anytime soon (especially not with the market share Chrome and Firefox have)
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I fully switched to Fedora for a week now and it felt like a fresh air
Please microsoft, become the ad platform you're destined to become and give users a reason to move to linux.
these clickbait anti microsoft ads weren't amusing in the late 90s on slashdot and they aren't amusing now.
What is a slashdot?
my sarcasm meter is broken so i hope this is sarcasm but if not oh you sweet summer child
Well, windows xp is older than I am
We all know you were born in 1938, usernames don't lie
Imagine you have a computer that’s been compromised by malware. What do you think the search engine will be set to? Not Google, not Bing, probably some third party one that has ads and malware. Changing that to Bing would technically qualify as a repair.
They could easily improve this by just adding a list of common reputable search engines, and adding those to an allow list.
As a Linux aficionado, I appreciate you trying to bring an argument for Windows in good faith and a potential way for Microsoft to improve it. This is even if steering people to Bing is Microsoft's intention with this move so they are unlikely to improve it in the way you suggested.
Since forever, Microsoft-affiliated products are often the only things that get the "trusted" label within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Yeah it’s not ideal. I just don’t see a world where Microsoft will set people’s search engine to DuckDuckGo
That's because they've integrated it into the start menu. Evil, yes. But technically correct.
This is the one thing that justfied buying an enterprise licensing model for my C level overlords.
So much of this shit apparently going on 11 but I've never seen any of these changes on mine.
Is this only for US or?
It's Bingin' time!
How is this not fraud?
It's a simple question. They are deliberately misleading and lying to customers for unlawful corporate gain.
Lol, I don't even use Windows... heh !!!
I fought with Broadcom's shitty website for hours, but finally have Workstation Pro, in which I will test my workflows in Linux.
Games and Lightroom will be a challenge, but I'm going to avoid Win11 at all costs.
Lol
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