• Mozilla has issued a warning about Microsoft’s design practices, claiming that the company uses harmful design tactics to influence users to switch to its Edge browser.
  • The report highlights how Microsoft interrupts the installation process of Google Chrome on Windows devices, promoting the security and privacy benefits of Edge.
  • Mozilla calls for regulatory action to restore browser choice and competition across major platforms.

Archive link: https://archive.ph/koBY6


Chrome

Windows

Well there’s your problem!

    • XenoDial@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      And that’s the part that everyone ignores. They’ll say open a VM or use wine or there’s an open source alternative. But if I’m going to run native Linux just to open a windows VM to run the primary software I use, what’s the point? I’m not bashing on either side. I use Windows when I need and, and go back to Linux when I’m finished, but that’s because that’s the solution that works for me.

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      File the required issues with those manufacturers then. Support for Linux is trivially easy to add compared to Microsoft: the kernel sources and stuff to create your modules are right there.

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        9 months ago

        That works until they explicitly say they won’t support Linux, eg. Adobe, Bungie, GoXLR, etc

        Plenty of companies know that it’s trivial to implement. They just simply do not care, nor will they ever care.

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      Same here, to a certain extent.

      I was referring only to Linux’s lack of bullshittery in comparison to Windows, nothing else.

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      Linux community arrogance is to deny the device driver issues and think Apple is fine, when the reason Apple thrives is because they don’t have open hardware like Linux, BSD, Windows…

      Hardware companies are rarely held account for their absent support of Linux - some campaigns have come and gone, but in the end Linux users tend to arrogantly say it’s trivial to switch and embrace dishonesty. I guess they figure Microsoft is dishonest, so they normalize it.

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      9 months ago

      100% same

      I was needing to boot back to windows multiple times per day to accomplish simple tasks, and that made Linux no longer worth the hassle.