If you don’t use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.
They are not wrong.
To mend your machine:
- Ditch Windows
- Install Plasma
- Your computer is ready.
@kde@floss.social
I remember decades ago when a US court convicted Microsoft to seperate their browser from windows. The court wrote the verdict that Microsoft ilegally tried to prevent competion . Since Microsoft lost it shouldn’t be difficult to file the next suit .
@kde@lemmy.kde.social@enigma @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
During the Clinton era Microsoft was a hair’s breadth away from being broken apart for all its anti-competitive monopolistic shenanigans – including the browser war thing that you mention.
But then Bush Junior got into power (I resist using the words “was elected”) and he swept all that away.
@enigma @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
As I recall:
Microsoft Windows used to have good online help, circa 1991-1994 (Windows 3.1).
It was based on the Rich Text Format (RTF).
Then Microsoft added a web browser, and called it Internet Explorer.
Internet Explorer really wasn’t very good for exploring the internet, apparently because its development had been rushed and it didn’t display some things like other browsers would.
Then Microsoft argued in court that its web browser was an integral part of Windows, which Windows could not work without.
Then the judge removed the web browser from his own Windows-based computer and experienced no problems.
Then Microsoft changed its online help to HTML and made us use its web browser to access it.deleted by creator
What is wrong with all those kde links in the comments? Are y’all bots?! Hella annoying.
They probably either use a different client, or a different federated service, that lets them mark multiple participants in each post of the thread.
I think they may be using mastodon and that’s how you post in a lemmy community via mastodon, using the @ tags.
Federation is taking some getting used to I guess.
Mastodon users need to mention the user and the community name in order to make or reply to Lemmy comments.
You know you don’t have to click the links right?
The next step will be for Windows to tell you that you are broken if you chose another browser.
Apple had to learn the hard way: Under the DMA (thanks @EUCommission !) they were forced to give users a choice regarding the default search engine and browser on their systems.
What are we going to do about Microsoft misleading users?
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1689
Is the browser selection on Windows no longer required in EU?
It is still required, as Google had to do the same with Android, offering multiple search engines and presenting them to the user (at least that happened to me with my phone), but after doing it in Windows 8.1, Microsoft probably thought that it was enough compliance to keep “those nagging EU politicians” away.
Alright but what does that have to do with an image of the reddit servers?
I assume because they run on windows.
Dark pattern and antitrust legislation doesn’t mean anything if it’s not enforced.
This is actually pretty frustrating
I don’t even use Edge and I’m upset
Yeah it’s a shitty thing for them to do
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I’ve been using Plasma 6 as my daily driver for three weeks now, and it’s really good! I’m grateful for all the time that developers, testers, and doc writers have spent on this project. I decided to ditch Windows after getting yet another nudge to “please create a microsoft account”.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I am already running KDE on my desktop and GNOME on my laptop with Fedora. Maybe when I will have time, I will package KDE for #MatuushOS.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I hope this can get out there, 'cause I feel like on here, you’re pretty much preaching to the choir. :)
- “Repair” computer.
- Use MS Edge for the first time.
- Use bing.com for the first time.
- Search for “best Linux distro for gaming”.
- Ditch Windows.
Never did i think id see KDE Propaganda
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I have fixed three laptops this way. Can confirm. 👍
- Ditch Windows
- Install Plasma
- Your computer is ready.
Oh, hey, I already did that! I’ll have you know that once I did, my computer was no longer broken and my life changed— Colors became more vivid. Birdsong sounds sweeter. Food tastes better. My wife got even hotter. And I even discovered the secret to nuclear fusion!
Joking aside, ever since switching to Linux, my machine had never run better.
I have rescued several laptops that were struggling with Windows by installing Linux, and KDE Plasma is excellent these days. My 7 year old Dell XPS, which had become unusably slow and hot under Windows 11 despite repastes and cleaning, runs OpenSUSE Tumbleweed like it’s a new machine.
The picture looks like two mildly offended Decepticons
