haha nuke the partition, put Linux on it
This experience helps users quickly understand content
They really think we’re stupid. Unfortunately, they may be mostly right.
Using a macbook for the picture tho. Rude.
I only use Edge at work because of some screen refresh glitch with Chrome. Whenever I would do something in Outlook, the entire screen would blink for a second. Very annoying. I never put a ticket in because Edge worked fine. Now I will have to enter ticket hell.
I’ll hate it because this already happens with links in MS Teams where despite having a high spec work computer it makes the system so sluggish that the mouse cursor won’t move smoothly for 15 seconds or so while it sorts itself out.
I mean I’ve already got a Core i7 with 32G of RAM and an NVME sitting on my desk so how much freaking horsepower is THIS little stunt going to take?
You don’t have enough AI-ready GPU cores so Teams is running the local copilot model on the CPU with your most recent outlook emails in order to prepare a dummy to send to the cloud for further analysis
…I don’t know if any of the above is true but if it didn’t even stop you for a second to question it, isn’t it time to get off Windows?
I’m not even going to recommend an OS, just anything but Windows. Fucking Apple is more trustworthy.
Edge browser now required a GPU with 12Gb VRAM minimum.
OF COURSE YOU CAN RENT GPU CLOUD COMPUTE!
Steve.
Steve fuckin’ gets it.
Just let the AI have a teensy weensy peek at all of your emails, guys, it’s just an itsy bitsy little peek, what’s the big deal, why don’t you trust us??
The only thing Edge is good for is downloading literally any other browser…
Better to use winget, though. That way you don’t even need to bother with Edge’s initial setup screens.
Better to use apt-get though. That way you don’t even need to bother with the dumpster fire that is Windows 11.
As Ftumch said, winget is really the way to go these days. No browser, just:
Terminal > winget install mozilla.firefox > Done.
It’s good for viewing PDFs
It also has a good use of being the toilet of browsers. As in, if you ever are required to temporarily install some pervasive plugin or extension to take a proctored exam or something, Edge is good to use because you know you won’t use the that browser for anything you care about and you can protect good browsers from those garbage plugins.
That’s what I have an entire laptop for. I call it the Dust Collector. It’s sole purpose is to collect dust and maybe once or twice a year be ready for a proctored exam. It’s not even allowed on my home network.
No, that was IE. Edge is decent enough browser for normies, equal to chrome.
You’re not wrong. Edge is just Chromium with MS branding. It’s not a bad browser like IE was.
Although if they do shit like this it will be.
Edge is nice at work because it works with all the apps we have that still expect IE rendering quirks.
I wouldn’t bother with it if you are at home.
Fair enough, let me rephrase that to “5 years ago, edge was decent enough”. But so many big companies are ruining their product with AI these days. It s almost the status quo.
The Grammarly plugin also started opening their AI chat panel in the side panel randomly once a day. And they also have a ton of false positive highligting that’s just plain ridiculous since they ‘improved’ their spelling checker with AI. I uninstalled it.
So somebody took a look at the modern web and thought “Hey, this is pretty good, but you know what would make it even better? Even more shit you didn’t ask for popping up in your face with every click!”
Luckily there’s still the trick of not using Edge. Who knows for how long.
you wouldn't sideload browser ai you hatei you hate?
Because Dennis is a bastard man!
Cool. Well, Billy pedogates, edge sucks, Outlook sucks, and copilot sucks. Don’t use them. Always try to remove them. I know you love to try to shove it on me like your trying to dose the wife for you stds. But Microsoft will always be tainted by you.
“Customers hate AI” means “Cram more AI into everything” to Microsoft.
I thought they wanted people to use their products?
this just pushes people away.
Who uses edge though
People installing firefox or chrome.
I’m pretty sure now you can do a powershell one liner for that
I feel like most people with a new Windows installation aren’t going to know that one.
