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Edge is my browser of choice. Chromium base, great features (collections, vertical tabs), performant, and allows me to automatically clear all history and cache

Edge is my browser of choice. Chromium base, great features (collections, vertical tabs), performant, and allows me to automatically clear all history and caches every time I close the browser.

gnud 5y ago
Edge is probably a fine browser. But I'm phasing out Microsoft on my computers - even overlooking all the crappy ads and shady telemetry, they fundamentally don't build usable account systems. "Microsoft accounts" are really bad. And I'm not even talking about the 'personal' or 'work/school' split, which is also horrible. I'm talking about having multiple different accounts with different names. I've worked hard to only have one private one. But since I have three different ones through work, I've discovered a few fun things. When all accounts have the same initials (from my name), it's usually impossible to see which one you're logged in as. Teams generally crashes when you try to change accounts, and notifications don't work properly across accounts. Signing in to a WinUI "modern" app is really scary, as it might "take over" your whole computer and render other apps semi-unusable if you're not using those with the Microsoft account you just signed in with Sign-in browser views generally don't show up in the window list, and generally don't explain why you're asked to sign in, or what app you're signing in to. The window list thing is a UI annoyance, the lack of information is a security issue. And also makes me sign in with the wrong account when I guess wrong. Oh, this wasn't Teams, it was Git. Oops, other account. Also, Microsoft wants me to always be signed in to their system when I'm just using my computer at home, offline. It's mentally taxing. I don't want to keep track of 43 different privacy settings to make sure I don't have a "Created 10 PowerPoint slide transitions" badge visible on my "profile" or whatever. But I understand that last issue might be less important for other people.
- _jal 5y ago
  I have a Win 7 VM that has a set of CAD/CAM tools than runs my little machine shop. It is more valuable to me than most other data I keep, because I'm pretty sure I can't recreate anything like it. I have a clean copy from shortly after it was created that I re-clone every so often, and it is allowed no network access. I will be running this VM until I don't care about these machines anymore. Aside from that and Excel at work, MS still has no other role in my life.

Edge is my browser of choice. Chromium base, great features (collections, vertical tabs), performant, and allows me to automatically clear all history and caches every time I close the browser.

gnud 5y ago

Edge is probably a fine browser. But I'm phasing out Microsoft on my computers - even overlooking all the crappy ads and shady telemetry, they fundamentally don't build usable account systems. "Microsoft accounts" are really bad. And I'm not even talking about the 'personal' or 'work/school' split, which is also horrible. I'm talking about having multiple different accounts with different names. I've worked hard to only have one private one. But since I have three different ones through work, I've discovered a few fun things. When all accounts have the same initials (from my name), it's usually impossible to see which one you're logged in as. Teams generally crashes when you try to change accounts, and notifications don't work properly across accounts. Signing in to a WinUI "modern" app is really scary, as it might "take over" your whole computer and render other apps semi-unusable if you're not using those with the Microsoft account you just signed in with Sign-in browser views generally don't show up in the window list, and generally don't explain why you're asked to sign in, or what app you're signing in to. The window list thing is a UI annoyance, the lack of information is a security issue. And also makes me sign in with the wrong account when I guess wrong. Oh, this wasn't Teams, it was Git. Oops, other account. Also, Microsoft wants me to always be signed in to their system when I'm just using my computer at home, offline. It's mentally taxing. I don't want to keep track of 43 different privacy settings to make sure I don't have a "Created 10 PowerPoint slide transitions" badge visible on my "profile" or whatever. But I understand that last issue might be less important for other people.

_jal 5y ago
I have a Win 7 VM that has a set of CAD/CAM tools than runs my little machine shop. It is more valuable to me than most other data I keep, because I'm pretty sure I can't recreate anything like it. I have a clean copy from shortly after it was created that I re-clone every so often, and it is allowed no network access. I will be running this VM until I don't care about these machines anymore. Aside from that and Excel at work, MS still has no other role in my life.