If you don’t use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.
They are not wrong.
To mend your machine:
- Ditch Windows
- Install Plasma
- Your computer is ready.
What is wrong with all those kde links in the comments? Are y’all bots?! Hella annoying.
They probably either use a different client, or a different federated service, that lets them mark multiple participants in each post of the thread.
I think they may be using mastodon and that’s how you post in a lemmy community via mastodon, using the @ tags.
Federation is taking some getting used to I guess.
You know you don’t have to click the links right?
Mastodon users need to mention the user and the community name in order to make or reply to Lemmy comments.
It doesn’t say anything about repairing, this is such a low class clickbait.
All it says is that the default settings are changed, and they recommend resetting to their service. Because of course a company is going to recommend their own services. Would be a bad company if they didn’t.
This is the actual picture they used in the article:
It doesn’t say anything about repairing, this is such a low class clickbait.
It is literally under the “Repair tips” tab.
They should add a red badge with ( 1 )
Useful red circle
I can see windows internet related services being tested with edge.
A repair tip
A tip for if things went wrong, like if some virus installed a weird browser and set it default, and you want a quick fix.
It isn’t saying that if you installed any other browser the system is broken and it should be repaired to Edge. That is just ridiculous and why I call this clickbait.
It is aimed at people who don’t even know what a default browser is. You know, the average user.
Hey come on. You sound far too reasonable.
Don’t you know this is the KDE community where we
discuss topics about KDEhate on Windows.You are working with hypotheticals. We cannot judge what the reasoning is. We can only judge what it is. It may have been done with good intentions as you say. Given MS’s track record, highly unlikely, but either way the fact is MS is telling its Windows users that anything that is not Edge and Bing is damaged or malicious. That is anticompetitive bullshit (intentional or not) and FUD.
If you look at the screenshot, you can see this is the “Repair tips” tab/button. I don’t know what it looks like, but it does say something about repairing.
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3. Install msedge for linux and open BingUsing Edge on Linux is like cooking up a banger vegan meal and then drenching it in bacon grease.
Never did i think id see KDE Propaganda
I got rid of Edge entirely on my Windows machine. I wonder how Microsoft will act now.
I guess I should just become an immigrant since the land of Windows has been turning me down for quite a bit of time.
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I remember decades ago when a US court convicted Microsoft to seperate their browser from windows. The court wrote the verdict that Microsoft ilegally tried to prevent competion . Since Microsoft lost it shouldn’t be difficult to file the next suit .
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As I recall:
Microsoft Windows used to have good online help, circa 1991-1994 (Windows 3.1).
It was based on the Rich Text Format (RTF).
Then Microsoft added a web browser, and called it Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer really wasn’t very good for exploring the internet, apparently because its development had been rushed and it didn’t display some things like other browsers would.
Then Microsoft argued in court that its web browser was an integral part of Windows, which Windows could not work without.
Then the judge removed the web browser from his own Windows-based computer and experienced no problems.
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During the Clinton era Microsoft was a hair’s breadth away from being broken apart for all its anti-competitive monopolistic shenanigans – including the browser war thing that you mention.
But then Bush Junior got into power (I resist using the words “was elected”) and he swept all that away.
The next step will be for Windows to tell you that you are broken if you chose another browser.
Damn, if anyone ever uses Edge, this might be an issue.
Gotta love it when edge users try to tell me “It’s not that bad” and “It’s based on chrome now”.
Those aren’t exactly selling points…
@[email protected] @[email protected] Do not fear the learning curve, for it is shallower now than a year ago.
@[email protected] @[email protected] I have fixed three laptops this way. Can confirm. 👍
@[email protected] @[email protected] I’ve been using Plasma 6 as my daily driver for three weeks now, and it’s really good! I’m grateful for all the time that developers, testers, and doc writers have spent on this project. I decided to ditch Windows after getting yet another nudge to “please create a microsoft account”.
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I use DDG on Edge, and haven’t seen this.
I’ve got Mint on an old laptop. It seemed to require the least amount of fuckery to get working. No idea what Plasma is.
I just want an OS and browser, not a project.
You literally typed this in a KDE community, how do you fail to know what Plasma is?
Browsing All does that.
It showed up on my feed. I see similar advice posts regularly “Just ditch windows and…”
Aside from my work tools not working on Linux natively, there are usually a few other steps involved in making the transition. Most people don’t want to fuck around with that sort of thing.
I played around with Ubuntu back in the early 00s, before reverting back to Windows.
I looked into what was the easiest current distro to install in order to revive an old laptop. The consensus seemed to be Mint. It works fine and the old hardware was all recognized and so on. I’m still primarily a Windows user, even with all the the BS that goes along with it.
Using Linux is hardly a project anymore, unless you want it to be one. Plasma is just an interface, you can get many distros with it if you want including Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE, Kubuntu, Arch, and so on.
You have to realize just how alien that sounds to anyone unfamiliar with the Linux ecosystem.
I was vaguely familiar with different distros, and how it’s basically the Lego of operating systems, from tinkering around with it twenty years ago.
It was funny asking for recommendations and getting everything from Mint to Arch.
For someone else who had absolutely no idea, and who’d only ever used Windows, it would absolutely be a project.
You can pretty much just install Mint or Pop OS and go. There are a lot of options (I would argue too many) but you can ignore most of them as a beginning user. No one should recommend arch to a beginner and anyone who does should be shot.
Also are you on a mastodon instance or something?
@[email protected] @[email protected] I hope this can get out there, 'cause I feel like on here, you’re pretty much preaching to the choir. :)
