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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When I was first starting out my programming adventures with Python, someone told me that I should work with Python 3 instead of 2 because that's what will be maintained in the future (this was some 8 years ago). I decided to listen and when I got home I opened up my terminal, wrote:

sudo apt-get remove python

Followed by

sudo apt-get install python3

Only to be suddenly greeted with:

sudo: command not found

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I remember I did the same mistakes few years ago. If I'm not mistaken, there is a big warning message when you try to remove Python, no?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To be completely fair, he nuked his desktop environment when it absolutely shouldn't have happened. Yes, there was the warning and he should've read it, but coming from Windows, how many times is the "This app may harm your PC" threat legitimate? Linus made an honest mistake, but pop truly made a massive oversight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Tbh that's Windows' fault in crying wolf so many times for nothing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

xkcd 149

also shamelessly plugging [email protected].

edit typo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

For those wondering which xkcd:

xkcd 149

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is great

And so are you

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it easier to remove Snap from Ubuntu or Edge from Windows 11?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Snap, and just uninstalling a snap provided program is even easier. Or just getting the system to use your own non snap program as default.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

For VR Gaming, I installed https://ameliorated.io/ onto a fresh Windows 11. Seems to replace Edge with Firefox and more other programs with Open Source ones.

But what if you would do it manually? I guess on a Vanilla Windows its not even thaf easy or possible because Windows Updates tend to fix it. But i am just a Linux user who jist wants to play VR and not really use the Desktop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Edge is so trashy. It's constantly trying to shove politics, celebrity gossip and Bing down your throat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The way they promote it intrusively in every corner of windows they can manage is trashy too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is how I feel about Java vs Go/C#/etc

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which is java and which is C# lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Java is the top, C# is the bottom. The Java language designers consider unsigned integers harmful (and this). They're basically saying "You could hurt yourself with this so we're taking it away." I find that patronizing and disrespectful. On the other hand C# and Go tell you, "Yo bro, doing pointer math and direct memory manipulation is not safe, but I'm not gonna stop you."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I love that about C#. It's safe and managed, but if you need the unsafe features for performance etc, then they're available. It's the best if both worlds, imo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Steps to remove GRUB on Debian: "doas apt purge grub-efi* -y" "doas rm -rf /boot/efi/EFI/debian"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Look at this guy with his fancy efi bootloader..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Yes, I know what I am doing"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

*system fails to boot

*surprised Linus face

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Can you refer to windows as edge/windows?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can I have you number?

"Ew, no"

Sudo can I have your number?

"Sure, here you go!"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well last week I nuked my X11 KDE installation by removing random python packages.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Oh same lol fuck Linux

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can actually uninstall Edge, Microsoft just says it will break your system. Not a big deal, you can always reinstall Edge later via winget

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well you can still uninstall edge on windows, even if it break your system, you can do it. There are tons of guides you can find on internet. It's basically running the installer with an uninstall flag.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does it actually break the system tho?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some functionalites are broken, for example some settings in the settings panel wont display, because it's a react ui (mostly everything related to onedrive/online account), lots of software expect it to be present and use it (like visual studio). Git (to connect with oauth).
But a lot of things still works.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Can you refer to windows as edge/windows?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Edge is decent, it’s my main browser now

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Decent browser? Absolutely. Privacy oriented enough to trust with my data? Lol, heck no!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Even if it was perfect and everyone should use it. The issue is that you can not remove (uninstall) it, which you should be able to do, especially for a browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I used edge for a while, but went back to Firefox after about decade of not using it. Love having extensions on mobile, makes browsing a lot better!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Enjoy your spyware.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The thing that started sending all your pics to Microsoft for "enhancement"?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In terms of usability? Yeah, edge is good, especially if you are a fan of vertical tabs. After all, it's just yet another chromium-based browser. In terms of privacy? Oh god no, given Microsoft's track record it's probably the worst browser out there in that regard.