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.
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@kde@floss.social
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 .
@kde@lemmy.kde.social
@enigma @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
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.
@enigma @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
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.
Then Microsoft changed its online help to HTML and made us use its web browser to access it.
Apple had to learn the hard way: Under the DMA (thanks @EUCommission !) they were forced to give users a choice regarding the default search engine and browser on their systems.
What are we going to do about Microsoft misleading users?
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689
Is the browser selection on Windows no longer required in EU?
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Well, I ditched Windows many, many, many years ago, but Plasma still doesn’t make any sense to me, so I use XFCE. But thank you for Plasma!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social 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”.
This is actually pretty frustrating
I don’t even use Edge and I’m upset
Yeah it’s a shitty thing for them to do
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
I love KDE so much. If I didn’t rely on certain creative software for work, I’d ditch macOS in an instant.
And I think that’s one of the reasons people just aren’t able to switch over from Windows.But hey, every other computer in the house that isn’t a Mac runs Fedora KDE. 😃
I feel the same about KDE and Windows. I only keep Windows for some music production stuff and legacy .NET application maintenance. The rest of the time I avoid it and use Linux and KDE, a far more pleasant experience.
So repair it.
With Linux!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I have fixed three laptops this way. Can confirm. 👍
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I hope this can get out there, 'cause I feel like on here, you’re pretty much preaching to the choir. :)
The next step will be for Windows to tell you that you are broken if you chose another browser.
@kde@floss.social on my latest laptop I didn’t even activate Windows. I just plugged in a USB stick with a KDE distro.
Who needs Windows?Alright but what does that have to do with an image of the reddit servers?
I assume because they run on windows.
- “Repair” computer.
- Use MS Edge for the first time.
- Use bing.com for the first time.
- Search for “best Linux distro for gaming”.
- Ditch Windows.
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.
Useful red circle
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.
I can see windows internet related services being tested with edge.
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.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I am already running KDE on my desktop and GNOME on my laptop with Fedora. Maybe when I will have time, I will package KDE for #MatuushOS.