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Google Chrome Warning Issued For All Windows Users (www.forbes.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Mozilla has issued a warning about Microsoft's design practices, claiming that the company uses harmful design tactics to influence users to switch to its Edge browser.
The report highlights how Microsoft interrupts the installation process of Google Chrome on Windows devices, promoting the security and privacy benefits of Edge.
Mozilla calls for regulatory action to restore browser choice and competition across major platforms.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Far easier to do too. I did one of each last month and there's no question that the Windows setup experience is terrible in comparison.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The software and hardware I'm using won't work on Linux.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

And that's the part that everyone ignores. They'll say open a VM or use wine or there's an open source alternative. But if I'm going to run native Linux just to open a windows VM to run the primary software I use, what's the point? I'm not bashing on either side. I use Windows when I need and, and go back to Linux when I'm finished, but that's because that's the solution that works for me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

File the required issues with those manufacturers then. Support for Linux is trivially easy to add compared to Microsoft: the kernel sources and stuff to create your modules are right there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That works until they explicitly say they won’t support Linux, eg. Adobe, Bungie, GoXLR, etc

Plenty of companies know that it’s trivial to implement. They just simply do not care, nor will they ever care.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I wanna switch to Linux, but it just won't work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Same here, to a certain extent.

I was referring only to Linux's lack of bullshittery in comparison to Windows, nothing else.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

100% same

I was needing to boot back to windows multiple times per day to accomplish simple tasks, and that made Linux no longer worth the hassle.