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[–] [email protected] 211 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Too much trouble. Just uninstall the entire OS.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

yup, switching to linux is the way

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav 98 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Nice! Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Does it uninstall windows?

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Removing Edge may cause update failure loop.

beautiful

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Works perfectly on Linux.Just run rustup.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, have you?

areweanticheatyet.com

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine what the poor bloke who had to delete this witnessed

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They're not the only ones:

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Definitely not lol, this one also went well

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 85 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

who up edgin they browser

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

So that's what Edge is for!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn, why delete a post with 938 likes!?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

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

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