This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
why stop at edge, open every single program at start up and also fill the screen with pop up ads while you are at it
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.
SteamOS Desktop can't arrive fast enough. Once it has, I will jump ship to either CachyOS or SteamOS, depending on what reviewers say.
Just jump to something like Bazzite and get rid of windows, don't wait unless you have to
It's amazing the level of contempt for the average user most tech companies have these days.
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.
I prefer Firefox, so I was using that as default browser. Windows asked me every fucking time I started my laptop if I wanted to use edge as default. Sometimes it just went ahead and made the change anyway. Windows was consuming loads of my download data, fuck knows what for. Then the copilot stuff. Finally installed mint and feel like I got my laptop back.
Welcome to the Linux family. 🤌🫂
Thanks, feels good 👍
Once I went Linux I loved computing again. I was getting angry at my PC every time I used it before due to backward ass idiot microslop decisions.
Laughs in Linux...
This is why you should use Linux instead
Why stop there, you could just make a whole operating system out of it and call it EdgeOS.
Linux is easier than ever to adop, distros like Mint just works out of the box, gaming with on Linux with proton and newer Wine much easier now…
Macs are cheaper than ever with MacBook Neo, if you want something that would just works out of the box.
So people have options and they need to realize there is tons of options for every need.
Wasn't MS just saying that they were going to work to de-shittify Windows? Evidently the same decision makers for the previous shit are still in charge.
By "de-shitify" they meant removing all the shit which isn't owned and controlled by Microsoft.
That's great. Yet another reason to tell people when they ask me why I'm using Linux on my computers.
Microslop promising to improve windows 11 and give users agency back.
5 minutes later...
