Bye bye edge

Not being allowed to remove an app has lead about two people to switch from windows in the last 10000years.

But they still won't be able to remove all of the baked-in spyware.

Time for Ubuntu to ship with a mandatory Edge installation

People have already proven they will put up with about anything Microsoft throws at them, so they were never going to switch anyway.

Also you still can't uninstall the bootloader under windows.😆

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.

I'm not really concerned about getting more people to use Linux. Am I the only one?

Lets be honest, people don't switch to Linux because it's better, we switch because of the cute pinguin mascot !

Who gives a shit what other people use?

It's a little naive to think that this was an incentive to use Linux for ppl in the first place.

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.

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?

Shouldn’t the same be applied to MacOS? There are a myriad of stupid apps impossible to uninstall. Maybe even safari

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

"Oh man, I'd love to use Linux because then I wouldn't have to have Edge installed!" - Nobody. Ever.

People use Windows because it comes with the PC and it runs all their shit (maybe except some yellowing-beige and blue scanner from 1997) with no fucking about needed. They were never incentivised to use Linux. They don't know what an OS is, and more importantly, they don't care.

As someone who has has tried repeatedly for more than ten years to use Linux, Linux is already doing a good enough job at that without their help.

The year of Linux cancelled. /s

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

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!

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

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.

I get the point, but there's for example Evolution which you cannot uninstall from GNOME without uninstalling the GNOME itself

Plenty more reasons, thank you very much.

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.

Funny because I have edge installed on my Linux laptop for some work stuff

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

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.

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

Install Linux anyway

Why would you pay for an incompetent sabotaging system?

I installed both windows and Linux about a week ago. Linux was (with download and USB creation) a little over 30 minutes. Windows was an agonizing 7 hour journey through all sorts of dumb vague error messages, internet searches disconnecting and reconnecting drives, various rewrites the that USB drive, having to spin up a VPS in Linux and install windows there first... It was a fucking nightmarish hellscsape caused by a mix of windows developers (and their managers) incompetence and pure sabotage of people that use real operating systems.

Fuck everything about Microsoft, install Linux and stick with that. We have cookies

As great as Linux can be, using windows without the bloat or spyware is fine by me. Hell, using it with all that is fine just so long as the end user is happy.

Are we still forgetting that Win12 will have subscription? Or at least it might. Then their terms of agreement state clearly that they will collect your personal data and share them if they see the need for it. I mean there's more to it than being able to uninstall IE.

I for one am perfectly content with fewer people using Linux.

There are no apple ads on twitter.