Something about Microsoft UI just feels so off for some reason. Material UI, Apple stuff all feels good to use but clicking on a button in Microsoft UI is just... bad.
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It makes me think of Fisher Price toys.
yeah it does really feel plasticky in the worst way
Fisher-Price actually has solidity to it. I'd take that over these pseudomagical plastic sticky notes.
People called Windows XP "Fisher-Price"!
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In my experience non-techy people just don't know what Edge and Bing are.
Which "non-techy people" are we talking about here?
Nowadays some people only use smartphones or maybe tablets, and they might not know that. But most non-techy desktop users still use Windows and they certainly ought to know the default browser (and its search engine) on their OS, I would think.
I'm talking about people on Windows desktops. They don't know what Windows is, they confuse Office with Windows all the time, they go online through the "internet symbol" which is their default browser that they don't know the name of. Google is their default search engine and they've never seen any other search engine.
If Google is their default search engine, they must at least be tech-savvy enough to have changed the search engine in Edge, or installed another browser (probably Chrome).
No they complained to enough people around them that "the internet doesn't work" until someone did it for them
Is the 1# bing search still "google"?
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They might know the icon; they probably don't know its name tho.
And in my experience, non-tech people use the default browser and its default search engine. If they hate it, they certainly don't show it.
For many non-techy people it's probably simply the internet button.
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You forgot the panel where the tech savvy people wash their hands afterwards
What I find interesting is when typically non tech savvy people start using things like Brave.
Goes to show how shit the tech industry is
Edge is just Chromium now (so worth hating still, but for different reason), and Bing has its uses. Hell, isnβt DuckDuckGo basically Bing?
Bing has its uses
Porn?
Also yes.
Also
Go on...
Like I said, itβs one of the engines that drive DuckDuckGo. These days I only turn to Google on the rare occasion that DuckDuckGo fails me, so Bing gets some appreciation from me there.
Google isn't as good as it was and bing isn't as bad as it once was
Not just DuckDuckGo - the majority of search engines and voice assistants that aren't Google use data from Bing. It's the largest search engine that has a public API. Even search engines that have their own index usually use Bing to supplement their results.
Id feel better about DuckDuckGo if it wasnt shoehorning ai
DDG seems fairly gentle about pushing it though.
Meh
There is noai.duckduckgo.com at least? Yeah, meh. Still American.
Qwant/Ecosia team up for new European search engine development waiting room.
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Yup. Never understood the Bing hate, they got better years ago. DDG is a source in my SearXNG instance, does fine.
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i like edging
Tech savvy people like Duckduckgo, Duckduckgo uses Bing under the hood
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Did I tell anyone about that time that I use arch?
Yeah, this is "tech" "savvy" people, not actual people who understand tech.
The current version of Edge is literally just Chrome with extra bells and whistles.
Yup. This is the meme of a kind of person who is βtech savvyβ as an affectation they use to adorn their personality. Itβs nothing more, with no deeper thought involved.
I just call myself a "guy on linux with a firefox fork" and nothing more to be honest.
Non tech savvy people don't care which browser they're using. A lot of them do actually use Edge, since it comes with Windows.
Bing used to be better than Google for a time but it has gotten worse too to the point where I use Google again. Edge is, IMO, unfairly maligned. It's a perfectly good browser, although Microsoft begging me to use it is quite annoying.
Honestly, the preinstalled spyware aside, Edge is a pretty good browser. It's, like, Chrome but better
Edge is a pretty good browser.
Setting aside my requirements to minimize spying and avoiding big tech. I agree.
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Bing is a better search engine than Google, but both are pale imitations of their former selves. It's amazing how bad search has gotten in the last ~5 years
Edge is actually pretty great. Bingβ¦well, the image search is okay.
Don't knock Bing Videos, either. It's the best porn search engine in existence.
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Im dumb, whats the w logo?
I love edge...
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On my work computer I actually use Edge over Chrome since it has vertical tabs by default.
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Where is Vivaldi?
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