Not being allowed to remove an app has lead about two people to switch from windows in the last 10000years.
When will the EU force Vim to let users out?
Hit Esc then type “q!” <- how hard was that? Don’t listen to the vimxit liars
Don’t forget the ‘:’ before the q!, when you type ‘:’ you enter command mode, the q command quits the file and putting an exclamation mark after the q doesn’t save the file and forces the file to be closed
Ok, I may have forgotten about the “:” but I stand by the rest, if you can’t remember how to do a qw, then you can’t be trusted to write to a file.
So you can’t be trusted to write a file.
No, I’m not trust worthy
Thanks for being honest. I’ll ask someone else when I need to write a file.
In the end linux is about choice, if you don’t want to remember the commands to edit with vim, there are text editors like nano or some kind of notepad program from your DE
Or if you want to text edit in hardcore mode, only use :x to exit. For after you’ve gotten used to vim and want to bring back some of the challenge.
Open a new terminal and type
sudo killall vimreboot to assert dominance
Reject modernity, return to having a single 120v power switch on the front of the computer!
There was a post about custom PC starting switches, and one built a gong starter. Now that would be a boss reboot.
You must still be trapped
I’m very close to just editing that comment
‘ZZ’ you heathen
I still dual boot for a few games and one piece of hardware that just don’t work on GNU/Linux, but I’m almost certainly never going back.
There was an ad for Tik Tok in my Start Menu after the last update. Fuck everything about that sentence.
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If your corporate environment didn’t use GPO to just disable the suggestions (just like what you can do on the home edition to get rid of any and all ads), then I suggest they get someone actually knowledgeable in IT to manage their servers.
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I know it’s a meme but it’s crazy to me that some people think the average person cares about computers at all (let alone what OS is running)
Same. Literally the reason I started using Zorin OS was because it was pretty. Not any sort of logical reason, just “Windows is Ugly, Zorin is Pretty”
Well I guess I’m one of the 2 then
But they still won’t be able to remove all of the baked-in spyware.
Try Ubuntu, you can uninstall the baked in spyware
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Try Debian, you can install the spyware
Tried Debian stable, kept not being able to get stuff to work because of the packages always being too old. Not advocating for Ubuntu either, but Debian? For a desktop? GTFO! I’d sooner start using emacs instead of vim.
So many things these days are flatpaks and app images. So it almost doesn’t matter.
I’m don’t know your situation but I’m sure there are reasons someone might not be able to use Debian desktop.
isn’t ubuntu based on debian stable and so have even older packages?
Ubuntu has its own repos independent from Debians
A somewhat anecdotal comment here, but I’ve using Debian stable as a daily driver for years, both at work and at home. Haven’t had any issues yet. It’s so stable it’s almost boring. 😀 However, this is fine since I can focus on getting stuff done instead of messing about with the distro.
I wanted to, and did manage to figure the installer out once, but damn it’s user unfriendly… The os seems fine, installer was not. I had some other issues I was hoping would be fixed in Debian that weren’t, so unfortunately I did not stick with it
The website is the least user friendly of all distros lol
Moving to an entirely different operating system is a big step just to… end up with closed, proprietary software and spyware again.
Snaps, I think I’ll pass.
Even without them, I don’t have time to uninstall/remove everything I don’t need.
DIY distros suit my needs more, but thanks anyway.
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If you switch why not go alway? Try Linux from scratch or Arch/Debian, Ubuntu is only a few steps behind MS in term of spyware
You can try linux mint debian edition
If it really was that much spyware, the EU would already have created laws to do something about it.
More likely is that it really isn’t spyware as much as it is basic unanimous telemetry, which you can disable in the settings.
I’m not really concerned about getting more people to use Linux. Am I the only one?
As a person who cares about the gaming ecosystem, I think it would be really healthy for Microsoft to not have full market dominance.
They’re busy making studio acquisitions which are gradually centralizing the market, which could become very problematic if they start taking anticompetitive approaches to distribution.
More people on Linux means more pressure for software availability on Linux, and if people can just move over relatively easily that prevents Microsoft from going full corpo-digital-prison-hellscape.
I feel like I don’t really care what my peers use, or what people in general use, but the more adoption linux desktop gets, the more people getting involved in community projects there are, as well as more bug reports and the like, so the sooner things get improved upon and the better they become.
Also more about being mainstream. I’m being forced to use proprietary centralised locked down platforms because others demand it. Free software going mainstream is one of my aims
platforms because others demand it.
like?
Whatsapp, google meet, gmail, google classroom…
But all of those have web versions no?
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That doesnt matter. I want softeare freedom and not just to barely run on linux. Forcing proprietary platforms ate ridiculus.
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I am using a mobile phone
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I care because by not using linux there is money going to microsoft or apple hands, which are not very friendly to user rights.
I have people asking me to help them install linux all the time. I am glad, in theory, but sad, in the practicality of having to work for free on my spare time.
i used to care, now i dont give a flying fuck.
if people are too stupid to use a superior and free system, fuck em.
Haha well, that’s one way to think about it I guess.
Lets be honest, people don’t switch to Linux because it’s better, we switch because of the cute pinguin mascot !
And because it’s free in many ways.
Or Chameleon if in EU.
It’s OpenSUSE.
Or Larry the Cow.
Who gives a shit what other people use?
Too many Linux users do, unfortinuately.
Windows is made by a company that would make this change in some countries but not all countries. We are not free until we are all free. Some operating systems guarantee that. Others do not.
I don’t disagree with you but dude people are sick of the politicization of everything and their operating system doesn’t even get onto that radar. They are ignorant and quite happy of it. Please let the pigs eat their shit in peace.
That said, it is quite telling that Microsoft apparently finds it more advantageous to have two divergent feature sets than to apply the change universally.
I get where you are coming from. FWIW I’m being a jackass for the hell of it rather than trying to start a flame war. But if someone is to get upset about it, perhaps its something for them to reflect on later.
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It’s a little naive to think that this was an incentive to use Linux for ppl in the first place.
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
While you can’t uninstall Safari, it doesn’t constantly discourage you to use other browsers like Edge does. Nor does Mac OS prevents you from installing competing apps.
The bigger problem is iOS, but the EU already took care of that and we’ll be able to sideload apps on iOS pretty soon.
True, I forgot that part. Thanks! Still, it comes as weird for me to have software (zero tied to OS functions ) I cannot remove
I remember Mac os ignoring my default browser choice many times and instead launching a web page in safari.
App association is done at the OS level, and the apps are normally responsible for that. So it could be either the OS not registering the selected browser properly or the other browser not registering itself correctly as the default browser.
They need to basically register themselves as responsible for html files and a bunch of protocols (http, https, etc). I’ve never had a problem like that, and I’ve been using macs for almost 30 years (I’ve used many different browsers as default in the past).
But browsers are pretty complicated beasts, so I believe you. There are a lot of things that can go wrong and your choice may not end up being respected.
Mac literally doesn’t allow any other browser engine. They only allow webkit.
So your options are:
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Safari
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Safari with Chrome aesthetics
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Safari with Firefox aesthetics
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Safari with [insert browser here] aesthetics
No, you’re confusing MacOS with iOS. Mac allows whatever you want. Each browser has its own rendering engine. iOS is the one that only allows (for the moment) Webkit. But that’s going to change (at least in Europe). Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_browser_engines#Support
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Like what ?
Older MacOS versions had stuff like the chess game preinstalled for no reason, though I don’t know how current versions look like.
I also don’t know how easy it is to remove preinstalled apps nowadays. Back in the day, you could disable System Integrity Protection, remove whatever you want, and re-enable Protection afterwards.
That chess game even predates OS X, it was a tech demo that came with the NextStep OS and has barely changed since the mid nineties. At this point it would be said to see it go.
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.
Also most software is written for that default os and if they ran into most of the common issues linux users do theyd throw it in the bin.
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!
What are the limits of this new law? Certainly state sponsored spyware are protected from this, for example
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.
The year of Linux cancelled. /s
The year of the DESKTOP Linux. Linux has already won everywhere else.
Edge isn’t as bad nowadays, and it’s not much more of a spyware than Google Chrome, the meme browser.
Which still is pretty bad. Honestly we should avoid chromium.
But as far as chromium is concerned, yeah Edge is pretty good. I used it until the anti adblock shenanigans
Same here, switched to FF for almost a year now beside AdBlock Edge is far better than Chrome
Ayy. Seems like the Edge to Firefox Pipeline is real.
Tbh I switched out of protest, not out of personal issues caused. It’s why I use duckduckgo instead of Google too.
Brave, but true. If one is going to use chrome, then Edge would probably be better for them.
