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Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC
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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.