tech savvy ppl and non-techy ppl both dont like Edge, Bing and copilot
You forgot the panel where the tech savvy people wash their hands afterwards
i like edging
Something about Microsoft UI just feels so off for some reason. Material UI, Apple stuff all feels good to use but clicking on a button in Microsoft UI is just... bad.
Windows-only users would never know, but people who've either used a modern mac or linux computer will understand.
Or windows users that have been around 20 plus years....
Really it is sad just how bad its all gone.
It makes me think of Fisher Price toys.
Fisher-Price actually has solidity to it. I'd take that over these pseudomagical plastic sticky notes.
Non tech savvy people don't care which browser they're using. A lot of them do actually use Edge, since it comes with Windows.
What I find interesting is when typically non tech savvy people start using things like Brave.
Goes to show how shit the tech industry is
In my experience non-techy people just don't know what Edge and Bing are.
Which "non-techy people" are we talking about here?
Nowadays some people only use smartphones or maybe tablets, and they might not know that. But most non-techy desktop users still use Windows and they certainly ought to know the default browser (and its search engine) on their OS, I would think.
I'm talking about people on Windows desktops. They don't know what Windows is, they confuse Office with Windows all the time, they go online through the "internet symbol" which is their default browser that they don't know the name of. Google is their default search engine and they've never seen any other search engine.
If Google is their default search engine, they must at least be tech-savvy enough to have changed the search engine in Edge, or installed another browser (probably Chrome).
No they complained to enough people around them that "the internet doesn't work" until someone did it for them
Is the 1# bing search still "google"?
Edge is just Chromium now (so worth hating still, but for different reason), and Bing has its uses. Hell, isn’t DuckDuckGo basically Bing?
Bing has its uses
Porn?
Also yes.
Also
Go on...
Like I said, it’s one of the engines that drive DuckDuckGo. These days I only turn to Google on the rare occasion that DuckDuckGo fails me, so Bing gets some appreciation from me there.
Google isn't as good as it was and bing isn't as bad as it once was
Id feel better about DuckDuckGo if it wasnt shoehorning ai
DDG seems fairly gentle about pushing it though.
Meh
There is noai.duckduckgo.com at least? Yeah, meh. Still American.
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Not just DuckDuckGo - the majority of search engines and voice assistants that aren't Google use data from Bing. It's the largest search engine that has a public API. Even search engines that have their own index usually use Bing to supplement their results.
Honestly, the preinstalled spyware aside, Edge is a pretty good browser. It's, like, Chrome but better
Edge is a pretty good browser.
Setting aside my requirements to minimize spying and avoiding big tech. I agree.
But the dick is at least lubed!
Chrome is fucking us all no matter what form it happens to be taking at the time.
Google is fucking unusable as a search engine now. Bing is literally better now if you block the AI part.
Was searching for something very simple. Google literally wouldn't find it. Changed the search terms multiple times.
Tried bing and it literally popped up as the first result with the same first search I tried on Google.
This isn't a one time thing either. Give me an alternate to Bing. But Google is literally hot garbage now.
I use Edge on Linux
Hello Satan.
Did I tell anyone about that time that I use arch?
Bing used to be better than Google for a time but it has gotten worse too to the point where I use Google again. Edge is, IMO, unfairly maligned. It's a perfectly good browser, although Microsoft begging me to use it is quite annoying.
Not true in my experience, I would say the majority of windows users I see these days use edge and bing. Most don't use copilot though
I'm pretty tech savvy, I daily drive Arch and I don't use Firefox or anything based on Gecko. Meme doesn't check out.
ppl
\sigh
I'm using Edge and Bing right now, on Windows 11
ew
Edge is actually pretty great. Bing…well, the image search is okay.
Don't knock Bing Videos, either. It's the best porn search engine in existence.
I’ve heard that! But I’m gay so I’m not sure the shareholders want it to serve me.
Hint: :q!
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