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Bro Windows 11 is hot garbage even just for games, my xbox games kept getting corrupted after EVERY update. I don't care about anticheat games anymore its not worth it getting frustrated every single damn update. I will literally play retroarch forever before caring about MICROSLOP again.
People are annoyed with this I was already annoyed back in windows xp when I originally switched to Linux.
Idiots...
As a computer user with ~30 years' experience with Windows: why? Why does the browser need to open? Since Windows 98, the OS and the browser have shared common elements. Those get preloaded already whether you like it or not. This is how IE got its performance gains and this is how Edge gets them as well. Firefox once had an extension that did a similar thing, it added a system tray icon that would preload parts of the browser. The effects were not that great, but some people kept it around. I suspect Chrome has similar things in Android/ChromeOS.
So generally I say this is fine, especially since you can opt out and it probably won't touch business/enterprise, government users, and maybe even Windows 11 Pro users who are spared a lot of the bullshit.
As a Mac guy, I don't think macOS is loading any part of Safari without permission. Safari isn't part of Finder (the file manager), it's not part of the OS aside from being included with it. I run Firefox full time on both my Macs.
And of course Linux is less likely to do this. They typically bundle Firefox (some bundle Chrome or something else) and Firefox isn't really meant to do that out the gate, so I doubt it's happening at all on Linux.
But even if I had 11 Home to game on, I'd just opt out, but also accept that it's probably still loading parts of Edge that other parts of the OS use (like the help system, is that still a thing? Haven't seen it since 98 or 2000 or maybe XP).
But also, my Macs and iPhone convert the Windows company to, let me just type it so I can show you, Microslop . Yeah, I set that up. It was funny for a while. It's still funny. Maybe if it stops being funny, I'll disable it.
Glad that they specified WindyPlop11. Linux wins in every branch of every one its splendid variations
Laughs in Linux...
Change this anytime in Settings.
Will do
Edge will connect to the online Windows remote OS server so you can run your applications in it and access your data from the MS data servers. How convenient.
They will never learn because they make Windows for Microsoft not for users. They do whatever suits them and they think will maximises profitability and their share price. They have to keep "growing" so they have to find new ways to make money.
As for the article; what shill bullshit is this?
It probably makes sense for a lot of users to have their default browser of choice open automatically at login, as most people spend the majority of their time in a web browser. Windows already automatically preloads Edge in the background by default to increase its startup performance, so it's not a huge leap to automatically display the app itself if Windows knows you're going to open it anyway.
No, it does not make sense to do this. Apps can be set to auto launch if users want them to. This only makes sense from the perspective of Microsoft trying to push Edge onto user so it can grow it's market share and harvest even more data.
Like in the old days, you open windows, and an internet explorer pop‑up appears.
