Microsoft to stop forcing Windows 11 users into Edge in EU countries

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/5/23859537/microsoft-windows-11-default-browser-links-eu-eea-changes

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11 Comments

tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y (9 replies)

Just leave windows. It’s never going to get good. It has been resting on it’s laurels since windows 95.

detalferous@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Hear him! Hear him!

Jumper775@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Everything below the gui and all the ads in the gui sucks, but man I can’t get over how much I love the winui 3 look (libadwaita is close but the color stuff windows 11 does is just so nice) and the windows taskbar. Nothing is quite like it. If a Linux distribution offered proper mirrored taskbars on all screens I would absolutely and Wayland as well as a competent app launcher without 10 hours of configuration I would use it. I would even look past it not looking so good compared to winUI 3, but nothing offers any of that. Closest I have been able to come to replicating it was gnome with dash to panel, but even then I couldn’t get it to work quite right.

Please alert me if this has become possible.

tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I’m surprised after all these years that someone hasn’t made a better “control panel” for those things. I mean, not everyone likes editing config files.

Jumper775@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

OpenSuse has YAST and KDE plasma does a good job of gui configuration for itself it’s just that such options literally do not exist. The closest I could get was using plasma and a script that would update other panels to match the main one which is really janky. Gnome with dash to panel did a bit better with mirroring, but it started to wrap icons way way to early, and it didn’t seem changeable as it was an issue with how it works fundamentally.

tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

I wish someone would just settle on something and put a crap ton of work into the GUI. Even if it wasn’t perfect, it would be a lot better than it is. I mean, macOS 10 years ago is still demolishing Linux.

BlitzKrieg2552@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)
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tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

You can’t afford a $599 MacMini? It’s damn fast. What is it that you think is both cheap and good?

BlitzKrieg2552@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)
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tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

Name a cheap gaming PC

HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

COMEON! EXTEND IT TO EVERYONE! Edge can go suck a duck.

rsh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What did the duck do to deserve being sucked on by Edge?! Duck doesn’t deserve that.

Edge can suck a cold poison turd from Bill Gates sweaty asshole.

Leave duck alone. Sheesh.

Lol

tsonfeir@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y

Duck duck stop!