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InternetUser2012 ,

Really love being free of Windows and this bullshit.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yup, the only Microsoft product I use at home is GitHub, my home computer is Linux, and my work computer is macOS, so I just don’t see this BS.

DrWeevilJammer ,
@DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml avatar

Gitlab is pretty great!

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Yeah it is, and that’s where I put my personal projects. But I like contributing to other FOSS projects, and most of those are in GitHub.

stib ,

Codeberg too. Though I’m still using VSCode because for some reason no one in MS management has remembered that they need to make it awful yet.

ArtVandelay ,
@ArtVandelay@lemmy.world avatar

My system76 laptop is in the mail and I’m excited.

InternetUser2012 ,

I run popOS and it’s awesome, it just works.

Ugurcan ,

Yeah, it’s been a breeze since I moved into Apple ecosystem. Nothing really being shoved down your throat feels nice.

whodoctor11 , (edited )
@whodoctor11@lemmy.ml avatar

So you change from the payed system that advertises but at least still have the option to use other things to the free os/over priced device that doesn’t need to advertise since the only option is to use their shit? Really an improvement…

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seeg , (edited )
@seeg@toot.whatever.cz avatar

@InternetUser2012 @const_void Haven't had Windows installed since like 2005. Did I miss something?

doublejay1999 ,
@doublejay1999@lemmy.world avatar

Windows 11 is malware . I’m older than yoda, I used windows all my life. Switched to fucking Mac last year which is shit, but iits not tracking my every move, is arguably not loaded with bloat, and nagging me about my choice of browser.

Cargon ,

Apple is still tracking you, they just aren’t as donkey-brained as Microsoft.

NightOwl ,

Yeah, one of things that stood out was how much Apple tries to push signing into account too. And compared to Linux doesn’t seem like you can use their App store without logging in on MacOS compared to Linux App Store.

Ugurcan ,

At least I know it’s only Apple tracking me and selling that data to a only handful, premium ad agencies. With Microsoft and Google, I don’t have a faintest idea if any 13 yo bengali kid with fakest company name can bulk purchase my browser history or not.

baseless_discourse , (edited )

Richard Stallman, who art the in freedom of software, hallowed be thy name; the kingdom of GNU come; thy will be done; on every machine as it is free.

Give us this day our daily free softwares. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who touches macos. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from the scorched land of Microsoft.

For free softwares are the kingdom, the power and the glory, for ever and ever.

Richard Stallman wearing a halo, holding a book, looking like a christian saint

amio , (edited )

Edge* is fucking shitty, to boot. It keeps serving my grandma fucking scam ads, how in the ever-loving motherfuck is that a thing in an official Microsoft browser?

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Are you expecting a browser to filter search results for you? The blame should go to the search engine, and you should be using an ad blocker to boot.

amio , (edited )

[sass-reduced because having written the wrong damn thing, it's my fault]

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Huh, I’ve never actually used Edge, so I assumed you were talking about Bing search results, since you said Bing served your grandmother ads.

amio ,

Shit, I just noticed, that is what I said. And here I'm being all sassy. My bad - I did mean Edge of course.

(Edge really is fucking awful though, so you're lucky, I guess)

HughJanus ,

You’re conflating search results with ads

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Google and Bing do as well.

HughJanus ,

Sure but the person you replied to did not

RvTV95XBeo ,

Darn, beat me to it today, can I post this tomorrow?

On a more relevant note:

We are aware of these reports and have paused this notification while we investigate and take appropriate action to address this unintended behavior

What is utter bullshit, Alex?

recycledbits ,

Is the explanation that this is unintended actually better than owning up to it? So some rogue employee can code this up, pass it through localization teams and then on to customers’ computers without any oversight? I’m somehow not calmed by that.

HughJanus ,

unintended behavior

Who do they expect to believe this shit?

Like “oops we accidentally injected ads into your browser”?

Skimmer ,

Are they begging for another antitrust?

const_void OP ,

That would require a functional or semi-functional government which we currently do not have.

jordanlund ,

Outlook the other day insisted it was better opening links in Edge instead of my default browser… Yeah, I shut THAT down…

alehel ,

I encountered this at work today. I just assumed I couldn’t turn it off. Will def be looking for that setting tomorrow.

jordanlund ,

liontreegroup.com/…/how-to-fix-outlook-links-open…

ridago ,

Tbf, they did recently (I think) implement a feature where Edge would open with the email in a sidebar when opening links from outlook. So at least there’s some point to it… if that’s a feature anyone actually wants…

daYMAN007 ,

Outlook devs also doesn’t know how the internet works. After all they use word as there email renderimg engine

sugar_in_your_tea ,

I don’t think I have ever seen that, but that could be because I only use Outlook on my work computer, which runs macOS. It looks like Edge works on macOS, but they don’t seem to be pushing it.

LinkOpensChest_wav ,
@LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one avatar

There’s an alternate timeline in which I actually give Bing and Edge a chance because Microsoft’s not flinging their feces at their users constantly the way they are now

AngrilyEatingMuffins ,

I find bing to be slightly less shit than google these days.

Dee ,
@Dee@lemmings.world avatar

I’ve actually found Bing to be way better than Google for a while now. It’s not even close, idk what Google did to their search engine but it’s pretty frustrating. It’s all ads and irrelevant links.

LinkOpensChest_wav ,
@LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one avatar

I’ve switched entirely to Startpage and SearXNG instances, and I’m having a much better time

hayhay ,

It’s wild because Bing is generally quite good now, but I switched away from it recently because it kept trying to advertise edge…

Meanwhile edge tries to advertise “pay later” schemes and really gets in your face about bing…

LinkOpensChest_wav ,
@LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one avatar

So to be honest, I did use Bing for a good while, mostly for the rewards, and it wasn’t bad, but at some point I was using a Canadian IP with a VPN, and Microsoft stubbornly switched everything to Canadian currency and would no longer let me redeem my rewards with US dollars or within the US lol. Honestly, it’s one thing that nudged me to start thinking more about using a search engine that’s not as problematic as Google or Bing.

hayhay ,

Yeah I’ve had similar experiences with Microsoft switching my currency out of nowhere and it was weird…

Recently been using Brave Search but in general I feel like there just aren’t any good search engines anymore?

Spiritreader ,

It was a really good time when the new chromium edge just came out and was a lean, quick and bs-free browser with a few power user features.

evatronic ,

Until about maybe six months ago, Edge was great (please ignore the massive amount of data it sends to MS) as a browser. The user experience was top notch.

Some product owner with shit for brains was hired and started cramming Bing and AI nonsense into every corner.

MS needs to ease up, fast.

alehel ,

Not to mention pay later credit card cr@#.

Double_A ,
@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

The sad thing is that Edge is actually decent, and Bing is also not terrible… E.g. as an user there is absolutely no reason to use Chrome instead, but Microsoft managed to make it seem so annoying with shit like this.

sovietknuckles ,
@sovietknuckles@hexbear.net avatar

E.g. as an user there is absolutely no reason to use Chrome instead

What do you mean instead? Edge is a Chromium rebrand

Double_A ,
@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Installing Chrome… since Edge is already there. If anything they would have to install Firefox to make a difference.

HughJanus ,

Chrome is not the same thing as Chromium. It’s not a “rebrand”, it’s a fork.

Swarfega ,

Edge was decent in beta and upon release. I find now though they have slowly been adding in their own features and now it’s a browser packed with Microsoft’s products.

MonkderZweite , (edited )

Edge is actually decent

And also it tracks you, same as Chrome.

ChaoticNeutralCzech ,

Normies barely know what that means, and don’t care.

Duckef ,

It’s built on chromium.

saltesc ,

I did that once. I’m Firefox and DuckDuckGo now. Love it. The difference in being served the internet and surfing the internet. Ha. Haven’t heard that term in a long time.

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