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I finally got so fed up with Edge quietly changing my preferences back to their defaults I decided to completely stop using it. I have an MS account, Office 365

I finally got so fed up with Edge quietly changing my preferences back to their defaults I decided to completely stop using it. I have an MS account, Office 365 for work, etc. I thought, this is great, I'll continue using Firefox for personal and Edge for work, it integrates with my company account, that's neat. But no, they can't leave well enough alone and just let me use my machine the way I want to. I don't want news on my work homepage, heck, even the weather widget bugs me because I can't turn it off. So I found the Edge executable, added "off" to the end of the file name and now it's just sitting there, broken. I'm sure some update will come along and "fix" it for me but for now this slightly passive aggressive but mostly useless reaction on my part made me feel slightly better. I'm not the same MS hater I was in the 1990's but sometimes they make it hard to forget that time, wish they would learn to get out of their own way and mine.

bogwog 5y ago
Why not switch to linux? Even if you can’t use an Office 365 alternative, there’s a browser version.
- brettermeier 5y ago
  Linux has all these driver problems... most things won't work with plug'n'play... I understand why people stick to Windows.
  - bogwog 5y ago
    > Linux has all these driver problems... most things won't work with plug'n'play... I understand why people stick to Windows. Linux of the early 2000s maybe. I've never had a driver problem with Linux, and it has been my primary OS on my desktop and various laptops for the past ~7 years, and I've installed it on computers for other people many times. Is driver support worse than on Windows? Of course; hardware manufacturers usually only bother to make drivers for Windows. But is it a problem most people will run in to? Definitely not.
- bombcar 5y ago
  Browser office blows compared to desktop.
  - s0rce 5y ago
    Linux teams also sucks
    - breakingcups 5y ago
      So does Windows Teams. Finally, parity.

bogwog 5y ago

Why not switch to linux? Even if you can’t use an Office 365 alternative, there’s a browser version.

brettermeier 5y ago
Linux has all these driver problems... most things won't work with plug'n'play... I understand why people stick to Windows.
- bogwog 5y ago
  > Linux has all these driver problems... most things won't work with plug'n'play... I understand why people stick to Windows. Linux of the early 2000s maybe. I've never had a driver problem with Linux, and it has been my primary OS on my desktop and various laptops for the past ~7 years, and I've installed it on computers for other people many times. Is driver support worse than on Windows? Of course; hardware manufacturers usually only bother to make drivers for Windows. But is it a problem most people will run in to? Definitely not.
bombcar 5y ago
Browser office blows compared to desktop.
- s0rce 5y ago
  Linux teams also sucks
  - breakingcups 5y ago
    So does Windows Teams. Finally, parity.