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Why would I need such "Bing2Google" extension if I can set Google as default search provider already?
by rehemiau 10y ago
Why would I need such "Bing2Google" extension if I can set Google as default search provider already?
- greglindahl 10y agoBecause Cortana, the chatbot thing, doesn't use your search default.
- nvr219 10y agoI've been using win10 for a while now, love it, never used contara.
- milankragujevic 10y agoI've been using win10 since it came out, despise it, never used the holographic blue lady.
- philliphaydon 10y agoWindows 10 is the best version of Windows to date. What do you despise about it.
- milankragujevic 10y ago1. I bought a laptop with Windows 10 with secure boot that cannot be disabled. I am stuck with it. FOREVER. 2. Forced updates and forced spying that auto-turns-on after updates 3. Cannot turn off updates 4. AntimalwareServiceExecutable uses 50% of my CPU constantly. With 2 cores at 2.2 GHz, that's A LOT. 5. Crashes due to driver issues that Windows installs itself from Windows Update 6. BSODs from drivers from WU 7. More spying 8. Explorer crashes constantly and sometimes the whole computer freezes and I have to restart Please note that this happens on multiple new and old computers, so don't give me the "oh it's a hardware issue" bullshit, my best friend who works as a PC service technician also experiences the same complaints from many people.
- morganvachon 10y agoI had a taste of the update madness just this evening; I was planning to use my wife's laptop to enjoy my screen time in the same room with her while she was reading. We hadn't used the laptop in a few months, so of course the first thing it did when I turned it on was try to catch up on updates. Three hours later, she's done with her book and I'm still at 37%. It literally just finished, she's asleep and I'm typing this as quietly as possible in the dark. Very, very frustrating. I simply don't understand why Microsoft can't do what Linux and the BSDs (including macOS) have been doing for years; no matter how big the update, it can be done in the background and only requires one quick restart to complete.
- jcheng 10y agoI agree, especially for seldom-used Windows machines. The updates take so long, it's hard to imagine what they could be doing. That said, Windows actually has real file locks so it can't update libraries and executables that are in use, unlike Linux. And I have recently noticed Mac OS updates taking a long time at bootup as well, the last one took 15 minutes, I assume because of System Integrity Protection--granted it's very rare unlike with Windows.
- CountSessine 10y agoMy experience with windows 10 has been pretty awesome. And a lot of the points on your list (which is only about 4 points long when eliminating dramatic duplication) come down to being an informed consumer. Secure boot, for example, might be an impediment for you, but I'd rather my grandma's laptop wasn't clandestinely red-pilled with a hypervisor by malware.
- milankragujevic 10y agoI agree with you. But people need to understand that just because someone uses the computer for more than just a browser (I'm not judging those people like my (grand)parents) doesn't mean they have to pay large amounts of money and waste lots of time just to get a computer like it was 5-10 years ago. I want a $200 laptop that I can buy that will let me do with it whatever I want. My salary from freelancing is only about $300/mo so I can't afford a $1000 Dell XPS 13 or something like that, and old Thinkpads are slow and noisy and the batteries don't last long... I was satisfied with a MacBook Air but my father got sick and I had to sell it, and that's why I mainly bought the horrible glorified tablet with a Atom Z3735F CPU. Oh, and I forgot, my mom hates Windows 10 because Flash that she uses to play some games crashes because the display driver it automatically installed for an AMD E1-2100 APU is bad and incompatible. Meanwhile Windows 7 works fine, so that's what I installed for her. My grandparents share a Ubuntu 12.04 which I will upgrade to 14.04 sometime next year, but that's only because their computer can barely run XP and I don't want XP anywhere on my network...
- roryisok 10y agoGlad to hear someone else who shares my opinion. It's a great OS
- Tempest1981 10y ago> never used the holographic blue lady. Cortana through the ages: https://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Cortana#Appearance https://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Cortana#Appearance
- scholia 10y agoCortana is partly a cloud-based AI service, which is somewhat like Siri and Google Now, and it works with Bing. Does Siri give you any choice about using Safari? Does Google Now give you any choice about using Chrome?
- pseudalopex 10y agoWith the exception of Siri on iOS, yes, they do. I don't think any of them let you choose the search provider.
- scholia 10y agoOK, how do I use Google Now in Firefox or Edge on Windows?
- pseudalopex 10y agoGoogle Now, Cortana, and Siri are operating system features. Chrome on Windows has Google voice search, but that isn't the same thing.
- Sephr 10y agoTo force Cortana's web searches to go through Google.