Microsoft Edge is actually good lmao

Hi, do you have a moment to talk about Arch Linux? I got a pamphlet and reading material for you.

Yep. It's me. Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and savior, GNU/Linux?

Those bricks are laid incredibly poorly, look at all those gaps

Try to understand, not everyone likes windows. They require quite a bit of maintenance, are usually insecure and speaking personally, some setups just don't look good. It's why some people opt for skylights instead.

Windows bad, give Internet points!

This is hilarious.

My husband runs our Lemmy instance, and he's subscribed to the Linux community, which is one of the most active on Lemmy (I probably don't need to tell you that.) I'm basically just here for memes and I ultimately blocked the Linux community because it was all over my feed. I'm a normie and I just don't care about Linux whatsoever, not enough for every other post to be about it anyway.

My linux config does give me a boner tho

Okay, but windows has become alarmingly invasive and dumbed down.

I don’t hate windows as much as I hate Microsoft.

ReactOS is a cool project and I hope it goes somewhere.

Edge isn't a bad browser. However it's based on Chromium so using it just feeds into the Chromium monopoly.

Firefox or Safari is the only way.

I use arch btw…

Hell no it ain't

.world really is the Reddit of lemmy smdh my damn head.

I mean I know people who are still trying to find bypasses to get around Microsoft and their online only strategy.

If you're still doing this, you.need to try Linux.

Come to Linux mountain charrrleeee

Username checks out.

I like the memes, but that's it. I use Linux, sure, but I also have to use Windows for a few programs because WINE doesn't work with said programs, and the alternatives aren't the best

With that being said, would I prefer Linux to be mainstream? Yes. Will it ever be? Probably not. Too many people just want something that works out of the box and don't want to spend hours fixing some obscure bug.

I am a nerd. Therefore, I am okay spending time working on my machine and making sure everything runs well. I have previously looked at an OS that doesn't seem to work or is starting to have issues and completely swap to a different distro using a base I have used and know will work 100% of the time

I don't have a problem with Edge itself. We use it at work and it's fine. I have a problem with microsoft constantly trying to trick me into using it among all their other shitty practices.

When it comes to browsing the web and showing content and having good add-ons, edge does a good job.

But why does it need to constantly advertise itself and other microsoft things to me? It's annoying when Firefox does this, but it feels like edge does it almost every time I open it.

The guy that became a Marxist because of Linux?

just block me now then I don't have any other personality traits

To be honest I'd still be on Windows if MS hadn't screwed me out of the license I bought through the MS store and attached to my MS account. I do kinda miss the new Bing assistant in Edge, that was neat to screw around with for free while I was on that OS

Okay but hear me out, Linux.

I use arch btw Edge sucks

Since you asked, I recommend Fedora.

What about using Edge....on Linux....🤔

We all need to revert back to Windows Vista.

The one thing I cannot stand about Edge is that if you want to use it for some specific webapps, but still use another browser as the system default, it will always open links in Edge.

For example, I use Teams and Outlook for work. I have each of them as a PWA installed as a webapp. I used to have them via Edge, but use Chrome for everything else. But anytime I clicked on a link in an email or Teams message, it would open a new Edge window and ignore my system settings.

To be clear, I'm doing this on Ubuntu, and not Windows. So we're not dealing with that anti-user choice crap that Microsoft does with Edge over and over.

The Chromium Edge really started to win me over a bit with how well they have done vertical tabs (Brave only just recently got something even close). Was cool up until Microsoft really seems like they have gotten insecure about trying to be popular again. I fix people's computers so I see it more than a normal user would, so I will just say that now. But it feels like every time I open Edge it seems to just bukkake my eyes with "helpful" pop-ups trying sooo bad to trick me into turning on more and more data collection "features". It is already annoying that they try to cover up the area where the download starts if it detects that it is on the Chrome download page.

But they took what was looking to be a shockingly good alt to Chrome, and I have even gone out of my way from time to time to let customers know that they don't really need Chrome and Edge. Instead I try to at least offer Firefox as a second option. As I do find that if a site is messed up for Chromium based browsers FF might at least give them a usable site until Edge/Chrome starts working again.

That being said, I am really curious how the original Edge would work if they had kept at it. It sucked at first because all browsers suck for awhile when new. The extensions being through the app store seemed about as normal as what Apple does with Safari. But the Edge extensions didn't require first signing into the store in order to get free ones. So that was much less frustrating. Jumping to Chromium just further enabled Google to be on more fuck shit.

I'm y'all's worst nightmare. I would gladly let them collect my data

I prefer to use edge over chrome due to windows integration and you can install chrome addons. But my default would always be firefox. I only use edge over certain sites that have issues with firefox.

Ew.

Yea I do get a little tired of all the Windows-hate haha

Fuck the Linux supremacists, but edge is horrible, haven't had a worse ux on any other browser

IE actually outperformed chrome for a good amount of time but the circlejerk was so strong nobody believed me even as I provided evidence.

Lemmy is a privacy-focused network. If you aren’t here for that, go back to Reddit.

Lemmy is more left than reddit, suck it up buttercup.

that's why I have Linux into my list of blocked communities

Come on have you even tried compiling the whole os by yourself, it only takes 3 days!!

Just block the user, then you don't have to deal with them

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And communism...