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Edge does have one good use case
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Lol not even, I just keep FF installer on USB. No Edge, ever.
Windows is next ๐๐ป
Github has a lot of stuff meant to be run after a Windows install that removes as much of the bloat and spyware Microsoft puts on it as in can and downloads and installs programs you want.
Got any links to repos you recommend?
IIRC I used this one with some of the community scripts. winutil is the one that downloads and installs.
Seeing comments like this is like seeing a battered spouse make excuses for their abuser's behavior. Sure, you could do all those workarounds, but why should you have to put up with it?
Have some self-respect, kick Windows to the curb, and get an OS that actually respects your property rights as owner of the computer by actually doing what you want it to do instead of letting a corporation weaponize it against you.
I try not to use Windows as a daily driver, but I still need it for some things, most of them work related. I assume a lot of people are in this situation and I'm trying to be helpful.
That being said, while I appreciate evangelizing software that doesn't turn you into a commodity, I don't appreciate the domestic abuse comparison.
Too bad, because it's apt nonetheless. And you should be shocked, not because you think I'm making light of domestic abuse, but because I'm forcing you to consider how harmful corporate abuse is.
Corporate abuse may be less severe than domestic abuse from an individual, but it's so much more widespread that it risks becoming normalized in society. They are trying to do no less than destroy our property rights, infantilize us with learned helplessness, and turn us into serfs to be milked for rents. From that collective perspective, corporate abuse could arguably be considered an even worse problem overall because it harms everybody including bystanders who had no say in the matter instead of just the metaphorical "spouse" who made the choice to stay with the abuser.
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