955
Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC
(www.windowscentral.com)
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2026
955 points (98.5% liked)
Technology
84478 readers
4052 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Between this and Lemmy, I'm ready for a switch to Linux now even though I don't know how it works.
You ask people online and get 78 different answers, then get caught up in decision paralysis and stick with windows.
I went down this rabbit hole recently: irked about a broken Windows update, I picked up on people's advice to try Ubuntu. To say I was disappointed doesn't really do it justice—I was mostly just surprised that it looked and behaved exactly like the Ubuntu I had used in college in 2006.
I'm really disheartened to say that after 20 years, it's still the same sluggish, dated, janky UI that I remembered from way back and honestly it just misses basic functionality. As a random example, there's no way to adequately control DPI settings for two monitors and messing around with screen resolution settings breaks the entire Gnome UI to the extent that you need to reboot. Some folks here on Lemmy were saying I should install KDE or something else, but I doubted it would be a miracle fix and didn't bother going that route.
I totally understand that it's built by volunteers and I think that's absolutely awesome! Personally, I just don't think it's for your average Joe.
Went with Kubuntu as I prefer KDE, and it's not been good on a multi monitor setup (at least with my hardware).
While I did make it further there than on some of the other distros I tried, it was still a no go.
Think I'm going to pave it and give OpenSuse another shot, just have to get some other bits sorted out.
Unfortunately, Canonical has kinda lost the plot lately - don't take that as "all there is" that Linux offers.
That being said, KDE is a world apart from Gnome for the features it offers, it's by fer my preferred DE, especially if you get a distro that offers plasma 6 and Wayland. I've been running Fedora with KDE for the last ~6 months and have been more than happy with the experience.
Seems I really struck a nerve. Again, it's not my intention to put linux in a bad light. I'm just sharing my not-so -great-experience that returned me to Windows.
FWIW, the broken update was fixed by reinstalling Windows, which was done by the time I finished cooking dinner with literally everything left in place. I don't really understand the hate on Windows.
Are you reading the hate on Windows?
Microsoft is a multi-billion dollar international mega-corp, and their software is meant for enterprise use as a tool to get a job done--a means to an end. All of its other uses are distantly secondary to that.
In that context, the tool becoming progressively less reliable, fast, and predictable makes it ever less fit for purpose. Sure, you used that time for something else productive, but when you need your computer for something important right now, it failing to work because its maker broke it when you weren't looking is a lot to take. Dollars and jobs can be lost because of Microsoft's cavalier attitude toward quality.
Contrast that with Linux, a free program made by volunteers in their spare time. Its own updates can cause problems like Windows, but they are ever less common, while the opposite is true for Windows. Furthermore, if I have important upcoming use for my PC, I can delay or ignore updates as long as I want, even forever. The owner gets to control the computer's use, because they're the owner, a fact Microsoft does not respect at all, and seems to be taking measures to change.
People do not like to be told what to do, nor when or how to do it. People that know how computers work and use them heavily understand how to maintain their computer, and those people are heavily represented here. They are getting their skilled PC management replaced by forced, shoddy, automation of that task and it causes them unnecessary problems, often at inopportune times.
That's why Windows gets hate here--Microsoft keeps kicking them in the balls and they hate that.
I've read and understood those concerns, hence my comments pointing out the contrast in my experience. In my case, Ubuntu was unable to accomplish what I needed it for and I returned to using Windows. I know this is a controversial position, because nobody wants to be supportive of a for-profit corporation, including me.
However, I try to separate criticisms of the corporation from my day to day needs and I feel misled by the community to go down a route to try switching to something that, in my very sincere opinion, was objectively a bad choice. I understand that many may disagree with me, and perhaps my specific choices were not the right ones, but I'd have wanted to hear some discourse and balance in opinions before I had wasted my time.
I honestly cannot relate to any of the points you've raised with Windows. Perhaps my experience here in Europe is somehow different? In any case, I hope somebody finds this comment to be more constructive input than an upteenth comment parroting that Windows is bad and everybody should just switch to Linux.
You're absolutely right about how the grievances against the company should be factored in. You've formulated it very well and I entirely agree with you.
To be clear, what puzzles me about this community is the fervor you mention about Linux. In my own experience, and while giving Ubuntu the benefit of the doubt out of frustration with Windows, I personally found it to be exceedingly disappointing. I don't think it's fair to say that I'm among the lucky ones to have few issues with Windows, because distilling my experience with Linux, I might draw sweeping generalizations about Linux as a whole.
While I, too, encourage everybody to try Linux, I would caution them to set their expectations accordingly. In my opinion and experience, Linux is tailored towards an audience of users with more time to troubleshoot problems and a willingness to accept a lower quality bar (for a lack of better words) in exchange for distancing themselves from the corporation behind it.
Don't worry, none of us did until we gave it a go
Do it! Just choose the most normie distro you can find (probably something like Mint or Ubuntu) and free yourself!
To give some balance from my experience, I don't recommend Ubuntu.
I'm not interested in getting into a distro war. I think we should encourage people to get into the ecosystem via whatever user-friendly means possible. Once they're in, then they'll be a lot more likely to try out another distro.
Honestly the popular linux distros are pretty polished / user friendly these days. You'll run into little issues, and you need to be at least a little bit curious / tech savvy to figure them out, but it's nothing a little googling can't solve typically.
I'm here for any questions you may have , just pm me! I enjoy helping and I can usually break things down into easy to understand bits.
Havent touched windows at all in a year except for work. And I did try Linux back in the early 00s but I wasnt ready then (wanted to game). Its come sooooo far.
Literally the only things I can't do: play pubg, and battlefield games. Both made by shit devs we should never support anyway. Oh, and use my Keith McMillan 12 step foot synth program on it. I have a spare junky win 10 laptop for that.
Has there been a fix for 240hz 32:9 monitors for their full refresh rate? That's what's stopping me.
I haven't heard of that issue but my guess is if you had it it was related to a specific distro or am, not the Linux kernel, but I might be wrong
It's fairly inherent to Linux from what I'm hearing and requires a lengthy reconfiguration of my monitors EDID. It'll allow you to run at 120hz in 1440p, or 240hz in 1080 resolution. Someone created a custom edid for a different model G9 but I'm not sure it works on a G93SD
Hi friend, it’s surprisingly easy to jump into. Zorin OS is a great place to start, or bazzite
Don’t be too worried about how it works, none of it is permanent, you can always reinstall windows if things go tits-up
At this day and age it works pretty much as you expect it to work. I'd recommend something like ubuntu (or kubuntu if you want it to look and feel more like windows). Something that is stable and not on the bleeding edge and mainstream so you can easily Google for help if you need it. Apart from that I think you can use a gui for pretty much anything you might need.
Little side note: the new long term support version of Ubuntu will be released this month. I'd wait for that so you have a pretty up to date version. If you need help or advice you can DM me if you like.
Thabk you, sir. I'll fiddle around as I ready myself. I probably need to research a bit more.
Maybe you could try the system in live mode to get a feel. You can simply make an install USB stick and boot from that and just select the live install. This will start the system directly form the USB stick without installing anything and then you can just play around with it and get a feel. Just be aware that all changes are temporary and are not saved to the stick. Most major distributions have such a functionality.
Just do it and ask questions later.
If you want something easy to install that has active updates I recommend Bazzite I've been using it for over 4 years now.
similar to mac and windows