This meme shows up here way too often…like every other day…
Obviously there’s a need for people in this comm to uninstall their boot loaders, and a frustration that Windows won’t let them.
And it’s not even that great of a flex too. “My OS lets me sudo commands that will break my system.” Great, so your system lets you accidentally break the system with a fat finger mistake? Why would I want that?
Windows is geared towards a general audience that includes some of the dumbest and least technically literate people to ever walk the earth. And they have to support it. Of course they’re going to limit your permissions.
Using that argument as a basis for why it’s ok for MS to disallow uninstallation of Edge: 🤡
Did I say I was defending MS’ restrictions on Edge? No. I think it’s dumb, but not for the reason you think.
MS prevents you from uninstalling edge because for some stupid reason a bunch of system processes and their store all require and use edge as a dependency. Removing edge would actually break a lot of things in windows. Is it stupid? Absolutely. But the reason they don’t want to do that is because MS implements a lot of restrictions like this to prevent their end users from breaking windows with stupid mistakes.
But this meme isn’t about allowing people to removing edge. Its trying to flex on the capabilities of linux vs. windows but using the laziest smooth brained way to do that. There are a lot of benefits to linux over windows. But the ability to sudo fuck your bootloader isn’t one of them.
It could be said that while there’s a million good reasons to allow uninstallation of edge, this is taking one of the weakest ones.
You could easily vouch for it and still think it’s not really that great to point out something that would easily break the PC for a lot of inexperienced users.
In case anyone is wondering, that pile of symbols means true in brainfuck
Wait, all of that for just a Boolean true value or is that some sort of logical expression?
Me: “I’m going to change Python3 default to >3.7” Ubuntu: scream in exceptions
pyenv and chill. Practical default it in your shells without messing with what installed packages expect.
Yeah, but still those packages should probably not be calling the generic python3 if they need a specific version of python. If they depend on system installed pip packages, there’s got to be a better solution.
@Amity_Noceda @AbsolutelyNotCats
This is why I love NixOS so much.
Oh I was wondering why some people mentions when replying. Now with double mentions i found you are from mastodon
Yeah mastodon does that by default and I am too lazy to remove them…
Wait… Microsoft is still pretending that having their web browser installed is vital to the continued operation of their OS?
Mac does the same. You can’t remove Safari and you can’t sudo chmod 0 /Applications/Safari.app
Ask me how I know 😒
Isn’t it required for all networked services they provide via windows (for example windows update, network connectivity checks, etc)
Yes, Windows has an app store, and a CLI package manager called Winget now.
But the Windows app store is garbage and Windows users are pathologically afraid of the terminal so…effectively no.
Meh, weak argument in my opinion. If one happens to run into the problem of having no browser, there are other ways around it. E.g., using your smartphone to download the installer of a browser and transfer it to the PC. People, who run into situations where they could end up with no browser are usually those who are overwhelmed with the internet anyways.
That they don’t make it easy to uninstall edge, while it’s easy to fuck up your system in other ways, clearly shows that it’s not about helping DAUs, but about forcing edge onto users.
Unlike Linux, Windows tries to accommodate any kind of user.
And how it tries to accomodate user that does not want any browser?
that brainfuck code gives a memory error :(
No way you actually tested it. It would be impressive
This is the correct piece of shit code, somehow my lemmy app didn’t write it well in the title
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Online compiler said it was W
Sorry, I don’t visit http sites. Do you have a secure alternative for that website?
How TF can a brainfuck program throw a memory error? It operates on an infinite array of bytes that wrap around on overflow.
This website prints “Wipp” for the code in the title.
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