tenchiken,

Overnight, millions will suddenly somehow become European.

I wonder if they will try IP based Geo enforcement? How long do you think before Rufus allows flipping the bit to force this globally on install?

Honza,

No. A lot of people simply don’t care about their browser enough to take any action, let alone to bypass geo-restrictions.

drcabbage,

The people who do care have already switched to Linux.

JCreazy,

It’s going to be one of those things where someone is either going to switch to Linux or they’re not. Most people will take convenience over privacy.

PopOfAfrica,

Honestly, Windows isn’t even that much more convenient. It’s just what people are used to.

Now that I’m used to Linux Windows makes me pull my hair out.

TrickDacy,
@TrickDacy@lemmy.world avatar

Exactly

Holzkohlen,

Even just creating a functioning bootable usb stick with windows is a pain. Why are those stupid windows iso so damn picky?

Speiser0,

Since when does microsoft windows have good privacy?

Zuberi,
@Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

You misread OP’s comment

Speiser0,

Oh, you’re right. I’m seeing now they were referring to the short term inconvenience of installing an OS, and not comparing windows and linux distros.

ZILtoid1991,
@ZILtoid1991@kbin.social avatar

Edge isn't as bad nowadays, and it's not much more of a spyware than Google Chrome, the meme browser.

Sheeple,
@Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

Which still is pretty bad. Honestly we should avoid chromium.

But as far as chromium is concerned, yeah Edge is pretty good. I used it until the anti adblock shenanigans

ColdWater,
@ColdWater@lemmy.ca avatar

Same here, switched to FF for almost a year now beside AdBlock Edge is far better than Chrome

Sheeple, (edited )
@Sheeple@lemmy.world avatar

Ayy. Seems like the Edge to Firefox Pipeline is real.

Tbh I switched out of protest, not out of personal issues caused. It’s why I use duckduckgo instead of Google too.

AlexWIWA,

Brave, but true. If one is going to use chrome, then Edge would probably be better for them.

Hupf,

Time for Ubuntu to ship with a mandatory Edge installation

RmDebArc_5,
@RmDebArc_5@lemmy.ml avatar

Don’t give them any ideas

Flaky,
@Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

meanwhile, me on Arch: yay -S microsoft-edge-stable-bin

cyanarchy, (edited )

Godspede to the madlad who needed that to exist

Honza,

Yeah, as if Arch was not bleeding edge enough.

Sept,

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.

vsh, (edited )
@vsh@lemm.ee avatar

I thought Linux was long dead, so I installed piOS or whatever they call it rn on a spare computer and it seems to be working fine. It’s still alive guys.

cley_faye,

The overlap of people that will not remove the initial bloat (even if it’s a button displayed prominently on first start) and people inclined to use Linux in the first place is not that great.

Smoogs,

There’s an app called “whatever”? Is it the new WhatsApp? Or an app about being indifferent?

sederx,

If you are too stupid for your own good it’s not our problem.

ftbd,

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.

kumatomic,

Don’t worry, there’s still plenty of reasons Windows sucks and they’ll only make it worse.

orcrist,

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!

lntl,

What are the limits of this new law? Certainly state sponsored spyware are protected from this, for example

badbytes,

Plenty more reasons, thank you very much.

BuddyTheBeefalo, (edited )

There are no apple ads on twitter.

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