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Microsoft is letting you kill Bing in Windows 11 Search, after years of forcing it on every PC
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this post was submitted on 08 Jun 2026
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Bing search? I got nothing like that on Bazzite smh
Only to be replaced by Copilot.
People still use Windows? Like voluntarily?
Gamers do, because game devs suck up to Microsoft by not putting PC games on Linux or macOS. Sadly, even "indie" devs.
99,9% of all games I "own", I can play on Linux just fine. Except fucknuggets like destiny2, which you technically could play if only bungie allowed it. Might look slightly different if you only play multiplayer, I dunno. Those with aggressive root - kits anti-cheat maybe.
Actually I even game better now. Before I made a tool just to be able to pause a game at any time, which worked like 50% of the time, sometimes fucking all up. On Linux it's a small script with 100% success. To me, a major improvement.
I still have a windows drive for "emergencies" when a game won't run. Haven't booted it since I switched in January. And I game like 4-8hrs a day (with breaks) with different games all day.
Thanks to steam's efforts, Linux gaming is absolutely viable. All is fine, performance, HDR, sound, input...nothing is worse now.
"Voluntarily" is a strong word
But you've always been able to turn it off...
One of the first things I do to a new computer/reinstall.
Maybe it was from regedit, not sure, but still possible.
I assume they're replacing it with ~~Autopilot~~ ~~Scout~~ TotallyNotAIGuysISwearThisTime.
and I'm sure it won't turn itself back on anyway every software update... with 15 promtps "hey are you really sure you don't want to use this, we've improved it, why don't you try it again before you disable it again".
Too late to fix the shitass OS, I'm already on Linux Mint lol
Too late.
They'll probably still make it break something after removing it and then be like "Oh tHis prObLEm CAn bE fiXEd bY iNStaLLinG biNG"
I can't wait. Forced to work on windows this bing stnuts thing popping open when I press return too fast is fing annoying as hell.