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Edge rule (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by Clbull@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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[-] azron@lemmy.ml 209 points 11 months ago

Friendly reminder that you can uninstall edge due to an EU ruling. Remove-MS-Edge

[-] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 98 points 11 months ago

Alternatively, you can use Bulk Crap Uninstaller, which is a super useful tool for uninstalling nearly anything!

[-] eldain@feddit.nl 14 points 11 months ago

Nice! Thanks.

[-] Roastchicken@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Does it uninstall windows?

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 98 points 11 months ago

Too much trouble. Just uninstall the entire OS.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

yup, switching to linux is the way

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 77 points 11 months ago

Removing Edge may cause update failure loop.

beautiful

[-] catbaba@lemmus.org 25 points 11 months ago

Definitely not monopolistic at all. Not worthy of an anti-trust investigation, NOPE!

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[-] Zulu@lemmy.world 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

My favorite part is how it'll reinstall itself every so often when the OS updates. I used to be able to brick that in registry but its changed again to where that trick doesnt work anymore.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago
[-] Zulu@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Correct, but thats not really a solution as i would still need to emulate a windows OS to play the games i want.

That said, linux has come a far way in that regard. Hopefully just another few years.

Windows becoming more of a service/subscription will hopefully speed that process up as people abandon ship.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

That said, linux has come a far way in that regard. Hopefully just another few years.

Have you actually tried it lately? I've been gaming exclusively on Linux since a few years ago, at this point.

[-] JonsJava@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Sadly, I have one game that will not work in Linux. I have thousands of hours in it, and I truly love it.

Rust

Also, apparently I'm a masochist

[-] alci@jlai.lu 4 points 11 months ago

Works perfectly on Linux.Just run rustup.

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[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That says more about the games you play than the capacity of Linux. Now do it without proton or wine, or pick any unsupported AAA game.

[-] Darorad@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Saying do it without proton or wine in response is insane, it's like saying "Now do it without your gpu plugged in." They aren't native Linux, but who cares as long as they run well.

The few games with problematic anticheat are a deal issue though.

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

No, there no equivalent because windows doesn't need third party interpretors for AAA gaming software

[-] grue@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Delete the win32 API and DirectX DLL files (which is basically all WINE is replicating) and see how well Windows plays your games then!

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

I'll delete what my system is having to replicate and you do too, let's see who can run games.

[-] Darorad@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I simply don't care. Games run fine under proton, why should I?

It's not even extra work you have to do, steam handles pretty much all of it.

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

You don't have to care, but don't expect others not to just because you're OK with a substandard experience. If you're OK eating shit that's fine, but don't trytell me it's chocolate when I'm holding real chocolate.

[-] Darorad@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Proton simply does not deliver a meaningfully substandard experience. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean it's worse. I'd bet the majority of steam deck users don't even know what it is.

Most games take a slight performance hit, so small you won't notice unless you're watching the numbers. Some games even have better performance on proton than native windows.

Why do you think it's substandard?

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[-] fallingcats@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

You out here comparing windows to real chocolate?

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[-] Dimpships@feddit.uk 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah, have you?

areweanticheatyet.com

[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't give a fuck about a negligible 117 games, compared to the thousands upon thousands that run in Linux just fine. Posting a pie chart that ignores the existence of those just so it can misleadingly pretend 37% of anything is "broken" on Linux is bordering on bad faith.

[-] Darorad@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Love that they chose to cherrypick the one thing pretty much everyone has talked about being the issue left to fix. Looking at games people actually play, it's like 3%

[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Gaming for me is mostly fine on Linux, it's running Ableton with standard plug-ins that doesn't work, surprisingly. Basically the only way I can run my own hardware for a music rig is through Windows. Also the odd thing like "run this firmware update utility" for various devices, then you'll have to go forum diving where people have tried all the workarounds to realize the workaround is just "use winblows."

I'm a mixed environment sysadmin for almost 15 years so Windows doesn't bother me as a product as much as others, I don't like Microsoft's business practices, but I can pretty much disable anything I don't like on Windows Enterprise. Like they are compliant with security regulations regarding critical infrastructure, as much as people justifiably rant about privacy concerns they try and force on to end users, but you can get around a lot of that with the same old commands. Our isolated environment isn't sending data to Microsoft or anything from our workstations for instance, and this traffic is heavily monitored and audited.

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[-] vox@sopuli.xyz 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

well there used to be a hack that had kept my win10 system edge-free for around 4 years, edge just reinstalled itself tho (yesterday)

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[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 96 points 11 months ago

Imagine what the poor bloke who had to delete this witnessed

[-] jopepa@lemmy.world 35 points 11 months ago

I like to believe it’s Rick Santorum, with a growing paranoia that everything is becoming a synonym for scary lights on sex stuff.

[-] Odo@lemmy.world 89 points 11 months ago

They're not the only ones:

[-] Verat@sh.itjust.works 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Definitely not lol, this one also went well

[-] Klear@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago

And here you are, spreading their ads even in a community that's super pretective of their adblocks. It works as indended.

[-] N0body@sh.itjust.works 84 points 11 months ago

I like to Edge by using a defective browser over and over before I open Firefox and climax.

[-] bbpolterGAYst@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 11 months ago

who up edgin they browser

[-] pigup@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago

So that's what Edge is for!

[-] crsu@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago
[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago

Conceived in a hell beyond your depth of perception break of the edgecrusher

[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 26 points 11 months ago

Damn, why delete a post with 938 likes!?

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 44 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Probably because they had accidentally asked people to share amateur porn with them. NSFW Wikipedia article about edging

[-] NekoRogue@slrpnk.net 29 points 11 months ago

I feel like they did it on purpose for the attention. Otherwise what would a "memorable edge" be? A screenshot of a website? They knew what they were doing.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's tough to tell with Microsoft, really. They're definitely cynical and duplicitous enough to do it on purpose and play it off as an unfortunate mistake, but they've also shown themselves to be stupid and out of touch enough that it could be an ACTUAL mistake 🤷

Otherwise what would a "memorable edge" be?

Ever since Google became a verb, tons of other corporations have been super needy about wanting to be verbed, nouned or (as in this case) verbed and then nouned. It's pathetic, really.

[-] lemmylommy@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

They actually paid money to get „bing it“ into tv shows:

https://youtu.be/nfHuZ5qrYX4

https://youtu.be/talcGAOj9YQ

So yes, they are absolutely that pathetic.

[-] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Haha that’s so sad. I only use Bing because I get a free month of gamepass every now and then through their points.

(Send me cheque now please MicroSoft)

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 months ago

Just because it's amateur doesn't mean it's not good.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

True, but it's probably even more of a legal and PR minefield for Microsoft to ask people for than pro porn would have been lol

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[-] nLuLukna@sh.itjust.works 14 points 11 months ago

Why on earth would they delete a post with nearly 1000 likes? Cant quite see why

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