Not being allowed to remove an app has lead about two people to switch from windows in the last 10000years.
When will the EU force Vim to let users out?
Hit Esc then type “q!” <- how hard was that? Don’t listen to the vimxit liars
“Oh man, I’d love to use Linux because then I wouldn’t have to have Edge installed!” - Nobody. Ever.
People use Windows because it comes with the PC and it runs all their shit (maybe except some yellowing-beige and blue scanner from 1997) with no fucking about needed. They were never incentivised to use Linux. They don’t know what an OS is, and more importantly, they don’t care.
Also most software is written for that default os and if they ran into most of the common issues linux users do theyd throw it in the bin.
Idk, the whole “Megacorp is forced to do reasonable thing, but will still only do so in regions where the law applies” should further encourage people to move away from all their crap.
People have already proven they will put up with about anything Microsoft throws at them, so they were never going to switch anyway.
Also you still can’t uninstall the bootloader under windows.😆
Yeah people will download a patched windows iso, go through an extremely complicated install process to have everything the way they want, flip a few bits in windows with some shady ass tool and give up updates instead of just using linux.
Doing all that takes about 2 hours. The shady ass tool is also unnecessary since you can manually change the registry entries. Once it’s done I can install anything by double clicking the exe and it runs 99.9% of the time.
Linux meanwhile only takes half an hour to setup and update (if we are talking about a beginner friendly one like mint cinnamon), but you will use a lot more hours trying to get everything to run. There rarely are good drivers for peripherals, to get even slightly more then the most barebone functions of my logitech gear I have to run a shady github project someone slapped together 3 years ago. The adaptive clock on my laptop doesn’t work, I loose about 2 hours of battery life and the touch pad stops working after a few hours.
I dualboot a win10 ltsc version and mint. By now most stuff runs fine on Linux, but it has taken me 10 times the effort to get to that state compared to windows. And even now I occasionally have to fiddle with wine cause it decides that this specific programm isn’t to its liking. And that’s ignoring the issue it was to run anything with anticheat. That requires a VM with GPU passtrough to even remotely work.
Once it’s done I can install anything by double clicking the exe and it runs 99.9% of the time.
cybercriminal heavy breathing
That’s only an issue if you torrent your stuff in which case linux wont save you. A windows virus/cryptominer/keylogger/etc. won’t natively work on Linux, but it will work if used with wine.
You joking right? Torrents are not the main attack vector XD who told you this fairy tale?
Also imagine using wine, wtf
As someone who has has tried repeatedly for more than ten years to use Linux, Linux is already doing a good enough job at that without their help.
skill issues
What are the limits of this new law? Certainly state sponsored spyware are protected from this, for example
Time for Ubuntu to ship with a mandatory Edge installation
Don’t give them any ideas
meanwhile, me on Arch:
yay -S microsoft-edge-stable-bin
And still, it’s been years (even decades) that all computers in France were supposed to be proposed without OS preinstalled and yet it’s very difficult to find one, or even to be refunded the licence Price a posteriori. Laws are being voted, removed, revoted, reremoved etc. and all justice actions have been a massive failure for consumers. I hope this law will be more applied than what we had until now.
We are moving the correct way but we still are so far from equity.
I get the point, but there’s for example
Evolutionwhich you cannot uninstall from GNOME without uninstalling the GNOME itselfThe year of Linux cancelled. /s
Funny because I have edge installed on my Linux laptop for some work stuff
Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of reasons Windows sucks and they’ll only make it worse.
I disagree with the premise, but even if it’s true that people stay with Windows because it sucks less, that’s still a success story for Linux. External comparative pressure leading to more end user freedom. Think of where it could go next!
Edge isn’t as bad nowadays, and it’s not much more of a spyware than Google Chrome, the meme browser.
It’s a little naive to think that this was an incentive to use Linux for ppl in the first place.
