If you don’t use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.
They are not wrong.
To mend your machine:
- Ditch Windows
- Install Plasma
- Your computer is ready.
It doesn’t say anything about repairing, this is such a low class clickbait.
All it says is that the default settings are changed, and they recommend resetting to their service. Because of course a company is going to recommend their own services. Would be a bad company if they didn’t.
This is the actual picture they used in the article:
It doesn’t say anything about repairing, this is such a low class clickbait.
It is literally under the “Repair tips” tab.
A repair tip
A tip for if things went wrong, like if some virus installed a weird browser and set it default, and you want a quick fix.
It isn’t saying that if you installed any other browser the system is broken and it should be repaired to Edge. That is just ridiculous and why I call this clickbait.
It is aimed at people who don’t even know what a default browser is. You know, the average user.
You are working with hypotheticals. We cannot judge what the reasoning is. We can only judge what it is. It may have been done with good intentions as you say. Given MS’s track record, highly unlikely, but either way the fact is MS is telling its Windows users that anything that is not Edge and Bing is damaged or malicious. That is anticompetitive bullshit (intentional or not) and FUD.
Fuck Plasma!
Message courtesy of the XFCE gang
What is wrong with all those kde links in the comments? Are y’all bots?! Hella annoying.
They probably either use a different client, or a different federated service, that lets them mark multiple participants in each post of the thread.
I think they may be using mastodon and that’s how you post in a lemmy community via mastodon, using the @ tags.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Guess what, Firefox does the same thing (a refresh will reset your privacy settings and your default browser, all of which affect Mozilla’s revenue streams) but they’re a tad sneakier/cleverer(?) about it.
(Firefox is not private by default so getting you to reset your settings is how they try to influence you to return to their preferred configuration.)
@aral @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
Here, you dropped this…
Because, guess what? Plasma does not force you to use Firefox either.
@Bro666 @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Which would make perfect sense if I had said “Plasma forces you to use Firefox.” Would you like any other straw men to rile against?
@aral @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I wouldn’t call that one deceptive design tbh, it says what it is doing on the box, resetting the browser to its default state. That includes search engines and privacy settings. Resetting settings to defaults is a completely normal feature that many apps have, and can be useful for fixing issues.
@dajix @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social It’s deceptive. They know exactly what they’re doing. That’s why they also ask if you haven’t used your browser for a while.
@aral @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I still dont consider this deceptive design. A prompt to reset is perfectly normal in programming, and it would be weird if they did not reset privacy settings with that. Resetting settings is resetting ALL settings. In fact, since resetting is often used for fixing issues you are having in your browser, resetting security settings is a good thing, since some of them can break sites.
@aral @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Wait, but isn’t the whole point of a refresh to reset everything?
I agree though, out of the box Firefox has become pretty bloated.
@Aaron @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social Yes, to non-private defaults. Let’s put it this way: if Firefox’s defaults respected your privacy, Mozilla would go bankrupt tomorrow.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
I use DDG on Edge, and haven’t seen this.
I’ve got Mint on an old laptop. It seemed to require the least amount of fuckery to get working. No idea what Plasma is.
I just want an OS and browser, not a project.
You literally typed this in a KDE community, how do you fail to know what Plasma is?
It showed up on my feed. I see similar advice posts regularly “Just ditch windows and…”
Aside from my work tools not working on Linux natively, there are usually a few other steps involved in making the transition. Most people don’t want to fuck around with that sort of thing.
I played around with Ubuntu back in the early 00s, before reverting back to Windows.
I looked into what was the easiest current distro to install in order to revive an old laptop. The consensus seemed to be Mint. It works fine and the old hardware was all recognized and so on. I’m still primarily a Windows user, even with all the the BS that goes along with it.
Using Linux is hardly a project anymore, unless you want it to be one. Plasma is just an interface, you can get many distros with it if you want including Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE, Kubuntu, Arch, and so on.
