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Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 16 hours ago by nil@piefed.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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When will they ever learn?

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[–] weew@lemmy.ca 21 points 2 hours ago (10 children)

I honestly might switch to Linux. I know people say that a lot, but gaming has been the only thing keeping me on Windows.

But I've also come to realize I just don't have that much free time to game any more. Most of my computer use is putting YouTube on in the background or web browsing. I still occasionally game, but Linux support keeps improving and even if I only pick Linux supported games... I still won't have enough time to play them all.

[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

I don't consider myself to be an advanced PC user, but even I was able to get Arch Linux to run with some googling and tinkering as my first dive into Linux. I really think you should make the switch if you don't have any work restrictions. I dualboot still, just in case, but I can't remember the last time I needed to use Windows.

Like you and the others say, if you have limited time gaming or don't play AAA on launch day, that's just one more reason not to use Windows! Good luck!

[–] chris@lemmy.grey.fail 1 points 14 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago) (2 children)

Doesn't "consider [themselves] to be an advanced PC user..."

Picks Arch as their first Linux distro.

Found Linus Sebastian.

[–] mysticalone@lemmy.world 2 points 7 minutes ago

Lol that loser can't even install popos right

[–] wookiepedia@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago

Nah, he would have removed his DE.

[–] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

As long as you don't jump on AAA title games on launch day, you'll be fine gaming on Linux.

That, or if you are a fortnite, LoL addict... Those don't work for reasons totally up to the devs.

[–] apple_train@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

Gaming works great on Linux now and often better. The only scenarios I can think of where things are majorly behind are competitive games with anti cheat that doesn't work on Linux and anything requiring peripherals with custom software, for example SIM racing. This means that the vast majority of games work great!

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 6 points 1 hour ago

I switched to Linux a year or two ago. Pretty much every game I've played has worked fine. (Elden ring, guild wars 2, nioh2, pillars of eternity...)

Even non-steam stuff was basically click and go with Heroic launcher

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

You can test most Linux distros using a “live” image on a thumb drive. If you put Ventoy on a drive, you can try as many ISOs as you can fit on the drive.

Bazzite or Fedora are both really good places to start.

[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I game often, and 100% on Linux. Unless you're doing competitive multiplayer games with kernel level anti-cheat (read: rootkit malware), games run perfectly fine.

[–] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 hours ago

Good news!

Apparently DeNovo’s been hacked!

P.S. I’m shit at games… so I don’t know if this actually really matters 😝

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

There are two exceptions to this still, STALKER Gamma doesn't work on Linux still and SKSEx64 doesn't work either. Also modding Baldurs gate 3 through Nexus is fucky.

[–] BitsAndBites@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Come on in, the water is great!

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 points 1 hour ago

I just gonna go live in the woods and take up bird watching or something.

[–] hydroxycotton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago

Your scenario sounds like mine. Don't game much anymore and definitely don't play triple A crap that requires kernel.level anti cheat. Been on bazzite for about 6 mos and everything has been great. So much better than Windows.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago

Pop_OS has been a piece of cake to use. Switched last year, never looking back.

[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 20 points 3 hours ago

Why would my browser Downloader need to start again after I download other browsers?

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 20 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I want Edge to fuck off.

#linux

[–] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

If you're stuck on Windows for work or whatever, just disable Edge's executable in Group Policy. Let Microsoft fight Microsoft.

[–] TotalCourage007@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago

Bro Windows 11 is hot garbage even just for games, my xbox games kept getting corrupted after EVERY update. I don't care about anticheat games anymore its not worth it getting frustrated every single damn update. I will literally play retroarch forever before caring about MICROSLOP again.

[–] Bad_Ideas_In_Bulk@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

No means no, Microsoft.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I said NO, Microsoft.

Stop digitally raping me.

[–] Teppa@lemmy.world 1 points 9 minutes ago

The rapings will continue until profits materialize.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 16 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Why does everything microslop does feel forced?

[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 1 points 13 minutes ago

Because it is. The question is why a good product needs to be forced on users.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Because they’re the Oracle of OSes. They only exist to supply lucrative corporate contracts.

[–] badgermurphy@lemmy.world 1 points 11 minutes ago

Ooh, does that mean that we're in for a big "actually we're restructuring our licensing all the sudden and everyone owes us 10x, effective as soon as you renew" rug pull? All the cool silicon valley mega corps are doing it!

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 20 points 4 hours ago

This bullshit again?

[–] Loce@lemmy.world 4 points 3 hours ago

Laughs in Linux...

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 8 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

SteamOS Desktop can't arrive fast enough. Once it has, I will jump ship to either CachyOS or SteamOS, depending on what reviewers say.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

If you're on a PC, SteamOS won't give you anything that any other major distro already offers. Cachy and Bazzite are probably the most similar to SteamOS, but Fedora, Mint, Pop are all also solid choices. There's no reason to wait for Steam to switch to Linux.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

SteamOS comes with a mighty corporation to fully fund its development, plus likely being the default for the wider gaming community. If the desktop version is flexible enough to let me do mods, locale, and so on, it would be ideal for my usecase. I hate the idea of distro hopping, because I don't want to spend time and energy figuring out things more than once.

It is my preference to only have one OS for each machine, for its entire lifespan. I would stick to Windows, if it weren't for Microsoft being invasive and commandeering.

[–] ItsMeSpez@lemmy.world 1 points 58 minutes ago

FWIW it doesn't seem like Valve is really looking to make Steam OS a general-purpose operating system. They are developing it to work on their hardware offerings and may or may not add support to other hardware. This means that they may not work on supporting Nvidia cards well unless they start shipping gabe cubes or decks with Nvidia hardware.

Just because a corporation is backing the OS doesn't mean that they are doing so for anything beyond their own products.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

You need to do more research. Valve has in total about 300 employees, and maybe a dozen work on SteamOS. Their priority will always be to maintain it for Valve-produced hardware. If you're expecting golden unicorns from SteamOS on a PC, you will be very disappointed.

To make matters somewhat worse it's based on Arch, which is one of the more difficult distros to work with from a user perspective - Valve uses it because it provides more flexibility to aggressively optimize it for their specific hardware. You will not get the experience you are thinking you will get from it.

Fedora on the other hand is based on and funded by Red Hat, which is one of the largest names in enterprise Linux. It's been in production for PCs for over 20 years. On top of funding, Red Hat also has employees working on it.

Red Hat was purchased last year by IBM for $34B USD, roughly 3x what Valve as a whole is estimated to be worth. If you want a so-called "mighty corporation" backing your OS..... valve ain't it.

[–] scala@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

So does bazzite technically. They are based off fedora.

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Just jump to something like Bazzite and get rid of windows, don't wait unless you have to

[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago (12 children)

Between this and Lemmy, I'm ready for a switch to Linux now even though I don't know how it works.

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 15 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

You ask people online and get 78 different answers, then get caught up in decision paralysis and stick with windows.

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[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Has there been a fix for 240hz 32:9 monitors for their full refresh rate? That's what's stopping me.

[–] parzival@lemmy.org 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] possumparty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Do it! Just choose the most normie distro you can find (probably something like Mint or Ubuntu) and free yourself!

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[–] BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

They will never learn because they make Windows for Microsoft not for users. They do whatever suits them and they think will maximises profitability and their share price. They have to keep "growing" so they have to find new ways to make money.

As for the article; what shill bullshit is this?

It probably makes sense for a lot of users to have their default browser of choice open automatically at login, as most people spend the majority of their time in a web browser. Windows already automatically preloads Edge in the background by default to increase its startup performance, so it's not a huge leap to automatically display the app itself if Windows knows you're going to open it anyway.

No, it does not make sense to do this. Apps can be set to auto launch if users want them to. This only makes sense from the perspective of Microsoft trying to push Edge onto user so it can grow it's market share and harvest even more data.

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