Comment on Microsoft Edge could use a win

• Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m in the US and have never ran into half of the stuff people say MS forces on them on a daily basis.

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  • whofearsthenight@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think this has a lot to do with what license you bought. My old Win8 Pro key install has never had ads and shit pop back up or re-enable candy crush or whatever. One of our shitty laptops at work with a win10 home license I absolutely dread updating because there is some new bullshit nearly every time.

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    • Default_Defect@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m on 11 home. :/

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  • HawlSera@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same

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• bonn2@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had it happen once after a windows update, it has put a shortcut on my desktop enough times that I wrote a script to check for and delete them whenever it does.

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• chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What is does do way too often is make itself my default PDF viewer. I’ve got Adobe Acrobat Pro and Bluebeam. I have zero reason to ever want to see a PDF in Edge.

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• JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m still on 10, but half the shit I see people complain about with Windows I’ve never experienced personally. Maybe I’m just lucky? Maybe I just read? I don’t know, but I’m not having the same experience as a lot of people on here.

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  • Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In general any bad thing about windows that it manages to fixes still gets commented about online for several years after the fact. For example: BSODs stopped being a regular thing in windows user’s life very long ago, but it took another 10 years after that for people to stop making BSOD jokes online.

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    • JokeDeity@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ironically enough, I actually did have my first blue screen in likely 5+ years yesterday. I was so shocked by it I wasn’t even mad, just impressed it’s been so long.

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• Phen@lemmy.eco.br ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From time to time when you update windows it’ll show you a welcoming setup again similar to the first time you logged in. In that process it will try to convince you to setup some Microsoft stuff on your pc, including changing default apps, but it shouldn’t do it on its own.

  But sometimes it does. It happened once for me this year.

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• WashedOver@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There was a while there where it would default to Edge for PDFs and as a web browser after a update. Quite annoying for a factory full of PCs that I wanted to use Chrome and Adobe Reader instead.

  I tried Edge for a bit but stuck with chrome. Recently I’ve gone back to Firefox but I’ve not had one of those major updates yet that even tries to get me to log into Microsoft as a log in so it will be interesting when that happens again if Edge shows up as the default.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have to use Acrobat for my job. If it opened it up in Edge every time instead, I’d go nuts.

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