• DrownedAxolotl@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      To be completely fair, he nuked his desktop environment when it absolutely shouldn’t have happened. Yes, there was the warning and he should’ve read it, but coming from Windows, how many times is the “This app may harm your PC” threat legitimate? Linus made an honest mistake, but pop truly made a massive oversight.

  • AccountMaker@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    When I was first starting out my programming adventures with Python, someone told me that I should work with Python 3 instead of 2 because that’s what will be maintained in the future (this was some 8 years ago). I decided to listen and when I got home I opened up my terminal, wrote:

    sudo apt-get remove python

    Followed by

    sudo apt-get install python3

    Only to be suddenly greeted with:

    sudo: command not found

      • myrrh@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The search function’s really weird, was having trouble finding a community on a different instance as well. I think it works best if you remove the ! and everything after @. I went onto sh.itjustworks, went to the Communities tab, then all, then searched “windows_help” and I found it. Hope. that works!

  • const_void@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Edge is so trashy. It’s constantly trying to shove politics, celebrity gossip and Bing down your throat.

    • 𝕾𝖕𝖎𝖈𝖞 𝕿𝖚𝖓𝖆@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      I got sick of Edge constantly pushing penis pills and whatever pseudo-medicine bullshit on me. So I changed the settings to get rid of all that garbage. I did the same on my work computer, except it’s a dark grey screen with just a search bar. I only use Edge once in a blue moon on my own computer, but I use it a lot on my work computer because we use Azure for logins. It just simplifies the process a little. We also have a few antiquated systems that only work through Edge with IE mode.

      spoiler

      I’m also not a big fan of Pocket on Firefox so I’ve got all that turned off, too. I haven’t exactly hardened it, but I’ve taken steps to just make it look clean. If there’s anything Chrome does absolutely right, it’s a simple, lightweight, uncluttered welcome/home screen that you don’t have to do anything to get there. Still ain’t picking it over Firefox, though.

      I used to use Momentum back when I used Chrome so I’m sure that can also fix Edge’s trashiness with a simple add-on.

      • const_void@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Ever notice how you can’t change the new tab/home page in Edge? It’s locked down to some page on a Microsoft server (often slow to load too).

    • azuth@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Snap, and just uninstalling a snap provided program is even easier. Or just getting the system to use your own non snap program as default.

  • N00b22@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    You can actually uninstall Edge, Microsoft just says it will break your system. Not a big deal, you can always reinstall Edge later via winget

    • halcyon@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Even if it was perfect and everyone should use it. The issue is that you can not remove (uninstall) it, which you should be able to do, especially for a browser.

      • tboyer96@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        In terms of usability? Yeah, edge is good, especially if you are a fan of vertical tabs. After all, it’s just yet another chromium-based browser. In terms of privacy? Oh god no, given Microsoft’s track record it’s probably the worst browser out there in that regard.