If you don’t use Bing with Edge, Microsoft will tell you your computer needs repairing.
They are not wrong.
To mend your machine:
- Ditch Windows
- Install Plasma
- Your computer is ready.
Dark pattern and antitrust legislation doesn’t mean anything if it’s not enforced.
Fuck Plasma!
Message courtesy of the XFCE gang
Backed by the GNOME possee
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I have fixed three laptops this way. Can confirm. 👍
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I’d like to use Plasma, but the last time I tried it, it didn’t run very well on my PC.
Compared to Windows? Because then it’s probably not plasma but the underlying distribution.
@qaz @shanesemler I can vouch this. The way Garuda used Plasma for a while lagged the heck out of my desktop. They switched it up a few versions ago and runs like butter now.
@qaz No. I use XFCE. I tried Plasma not even a year ago. Moving windows around made the low frame rate obvious.
You also could try Linux Mint cinnamon
What is wrong with all those kde links in the comments? Are y’all bots?! Hella annoying.
Mastodon users need to mention the user and the community name in order to make or reply to Lemmy comments.
They probably either use a different client, or a different federated service, that lets them mark multiple participants in each post of the thread.
I think they may be using mastodon and that’s how you post in a lemmy community via mastodon, using the @ tags.
Federation is taking some getting used to I guess.
You know you don’t have to click the links right?
Ehh, time to play a bit of a devil’s advocate.
“Bing with Edge”,
- it’s talking about search engine in edge
- a lot of malware will change your search engine, so that may make sense, for less knowledgeable people
- it won’t do anything on its own, you need to accept the repair step, for your default browser and/or search engine in edge to change
t won’t do anything on its own, you need to accept the repair step
Do you know what else works like that? Pop-up tech support scams. The target doesn’t have to do anything, but it’s become a thriving business in many poor regions (Kolkata, India is notorious) and a problem for moderately tech-illiterate users.
I would even say that this anti-feature promotes bad personal security practices because the user may be more inclined to believe “your computer needs repair” pop-ups if the first one they encounter comes from a legitimate, trusted party.
Yes, it’s not a great security practice, and it probably should work more like "we’ve noticed you have randomly changed your search engine from google/ddg/bing/whatever to this ‘random search engine no-one heard about’’ instead of blindly reverting to edge and bing.
It seems to be a tool for tech illiterates. A power user will know how to avoid malware, and remove it if they catch it.
They should do a much better job than that, but helping people that don’t know what they’re doing is not itself a bad thing.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I’ve been using Plasma 6 as my daily driver for three weeks now, and it’s really good! I’m grateful for all the time that developers, testers, and doc writers have spent on this project. I decided to ditch Windows after getting yet another nudge to “please create a microsoft account”.
So, criminal fraud.
If you aren’t using Bing on Edge, then I’m sorry to say you are streets behind my friend.
Coined and minted!
This is actually of frustrating
I don’t even use Edge and I’m upset
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
3. Install msedge for linux and open BingUsing Edge on Linux is like cooking up a banger vegan meal and then drenching it in bacon grease.
So repair it.
With Linux!
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
I use DDG on Edge, and haven’t seen this.
I’ve got Mint on an old laptop. It seemed to require the least amount of fuckery to get working. No idea what Plasma is.
I just want an OS and browser, not a project.
You literally typed this in a KDE community, how do you fail to know what Plasma is?
It showed up on my feed. I see similar advice posts regularly “Just ditch windows and…”
Aside from my work tools not working on Linux natively, there are usually a few other steps involved in making the transition. Most people don’t want to fuck around with that sort of thing.
I played around with Ubuntu back in the early 00s, before reverting back to Windows.
I looked into what was the easiest current distro to install in order to revive an old laptop. The consensus seemed to be Mint. It works fine and the old hardware was all recognized and so on. I’m still primarily a Windows user, even with all the the BS that goes along with it.
Using Linux is hardly a project anymore, unless you want it to be one. Plasma is just an interface, you can get many distros with it if you want including Fedora, Debian, OpenSUSE, Kubuntu, Arch, and so on.
You have to realize just how alien that sounds to anyone unfamiliar with the Linux ecosystem.
I was vaguely familiar with different distros, and how it’s basically the Lego of operating systems, from tinkering around with it twenty years ago.
It was funny asking for recommendations and getting everything from Mint to Arch.
For someone else who had absolutely no idea, and who’d only ever used Windows, it would absolutely be a project.
Browsing All does that.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social I hope this can get out there, 'cause I feel like on here, you’re pretty much preaching to the choir. :)
Btw, I’ve been loving plasma recently. Thanks KDE folks!
