It's about damn time. I hope this is true across all OSs. Dashlane is one of the biggest holdouts on supporting YubiKey on Firefox Linux because Firefox didn't support biometrics.
Windows can go fuck itself, Iām sick of their shit. Teams kept opening links in Edge even though itās not my default browser. Found out that Teams specifically has a setting to ignore the default browser and use Edge anyway. The fuck is that about?
Then I wanted to turn off the web search in the Start menu and I had to do a fucking RegEdit! Theyāre making it more and more complicated to not use their services, whereās the anti-trust regulations when you need them?
This is the norm. They have settings in Group Policy for a lot of this (sans the teams opening in edge, that is absolutely utter horseshit).
The regedit you did (and most regedits to āfixā stupid default settings) is a manual version of the GP setting to just disable web search in the start menu.
If you donāt use Windows with a Pro license, and you stay with Windows, next time buy a Pro license from a bulk OEM Pro License seller for cheap (or look up the latest way to spoof licensing and get it for free), and get access to Group Policy. Itās effectively Control Panel/Settings menu on steroids for corporate sysadmins.
I swear that 80% of peoples complaints with Windows can be handled with Group Policy. Shit that itās locked away from the average user, but the average user literally canāt tell the difference between web browsers if you make the shortcuts have the same icon.
Honestly, donāt buy Windows license. If you insist using that piece of malware, at least allow yourself a little bit of decency and just āpirateā it
I swear that 80% of peoples complaints with Windows can be handled with Group Policy.
One shouldn't have to go into the Group Policy screens just to restore basic functionality like 'use my default browser' and 'stop searching the web when I am searching my computer' and 'stop sending all my actions to your servers'. There is a reason people have been telling others to use Linux, rather than continue to put up with Microsoft's crap.
Install Pro or Enterprise, or Tiny10 and then go here and run the Power Shell script: https://massgrave.dev/
And choose the first option. Takes a minute but then you'll be fully activated. If you don't trust the script, download it and check it yourself.
Then you can use the Group Policy editor to turn a bunch of crap off that Home users aren't allowed to. I use Winaero Tweaker to edit all these things with a UI. It works even on the Home edition except for the few settings that require the Group Policy.
I understand the need for security, but default is powerful, which is why the eu requires os vendors to provide a browser choice screens instead of letting the os vendors to pick their own default browser. Without coupling this restriction with a browser choice screen, this would guarantee to increase edge market share simply because itās the default.
Your assuming everyone understands how default apps work. And you are forgetting that most people get intimidated by the popups trying to get you not to change the default.
It is complete enshitification if you ask me. There should be no reason why a application can't have a button to make it the default.
It's possible that I've been lucky, and my experience of end users when it comes to Windows lately have been using it since Windows 10 which strongly pushed the Default Apps configuration vs previous versions. The world is a big place after all
Maybe I'm just over reacting. But people like us deal directly or indirectly with the fallout of such madness. I hope that the DOJ goes after Microsoft at some point soon or at least scares them a little.
Are you going to claim that you play 400 games, let alone 1000? Besides, you can always use windows in a VM and do GPU pass-through. But i guess the convenience of windows is hard to give Only time will tell when people will get fed up of taken for a ride by corporations.
Source? I game a lot on Linux and have only ever found two games which I couldnāt play on Linux. Genshin and valorant which have incompatible anti-cheats.
Thatās not to say that most games which have anticheats donāt work. A lot of them Iāve tried do work like helldivers 2, ow2, titanfall 2.
Then this discussion doesnāt apply to those people. I donāt like the argument that Linux isnāt ready for mainstream yet but the reasons quoted are often some game that is itself a niche.
Edit: this is why I specifically said 90% use cases in my previous comment.
āThe simple act of coordinating human resource decisions with IT department actions, such as revoking account access for dismissed personnel, would significantly mitigate such risks.ā
HAHAHAHAHā¦ ahhā¦ yeah, like thatāll ever happen. How do I know my users have been deleted? When I find out by accident 90 days later. I have worked for several companies where HR doesnāt do shit for IT. I find out employees have been hired when they show up to my desk, asking for a login and laptop. I find out they were let go when the 90 day expiration report shows who got expired for not logging in for 90 days. āJimās admin password expired.ā āJim left in October.ā I have worked for companies where the simplest of forms, a form generated by an email or a popup in some ticketing system only requires checking off a checkboxā¦ nothing. Canāt be arsed.
This seems like major strike for the Ukraine if true, but I assume the effects of the ensuing chaos might take a bit of time, because taxation data is kinda at the infrastructure planning and maintenance point and infrastructure takes a lot of energy or time to change (ie destroy/demilitarise in this case).
That would be fake new and propaganda. To say one is being played by the enemy because you disagree with them is problematic at best. We should try to work out our differences instead of arresting our rivals.
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