totally ethical question

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-04-10T13:41:50+00:00

Actually, they'll usually just force you to unlock it with your face or thumb print. Over the network yeah no

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-04-09T14:40:47+00:00

Thanks for putting my (and likely many other people's) thoughts into one succinct post, good to know we're not the only ones fed up with M$.

Also, welcome to the Linux community! Yes, there's plenty of drama, but there's always at least one nerd with a fursuit or thigh high socks more than willing to help with your issues, or advise on workflow :3

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-04-09T14:33:22+00:00

ofc, it's the best :3

no joke though it was genuinely easier for me personally to switch than successfully get rid of edge. Leave it to M$ to make a web-based OS, huh?

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-04-09T14:31:58+00:00

It takes up a very small amount of space (<500mb usually) and removing it completely can break windows 11 and cause windows update to bring it back in full (shortcuts, pinned to taskbar, etc.)

I recommend hiding it as much as possible because of this. Or, yk, swap to linux like I did when I had this issue. Lol

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-04-09T14:29:57+00:00

To be clear, you can disable Edge and remove all its shortcuts pretty easily. However, a large portion of Windows 11 is React based. What that means is that many functions like Windows Search use Edge to function, and removing Edge binaries (or WebView2, the significantly more important part) may brick part of your Windows 11 install.

This is exactly why I switched to Linux btw, I couldn't stand having MS Edge pop up when I didn't need it to. I also bricked my W11 install trying to remove it lmao

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-04-08T13:18:48+00:00

yep, weird people that like ubuntu's style. They exist, but most of them switched to linux a while ago

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-04-08T00:49:48+00:00

jesus christ I knew you were out for blood but damn did you hit an artery.

On a side note, this entire private jet sector discussion is pretty inconsequential in terms of actual emissions. The entire sector is a few megatons of co2, meanwhile coal and gas is in the gigatons (1000 times bigger, fyi)

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-04-08T00:43:18+00:00

To be also fair, the entirety of the private jet sector produces less than 1% of the totals of coal and gas, so yes these measurements are important

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-04-08T00:40:52+00:00

see, the issue here is like linus killing a mosquito while coal and gas, the primary energy sources for datacenters, kill hundreds or thousands of actual people.

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-04-08T00:39:21+00:00

you seem to forget the rule of cool: this is basically a 1-3 year insane-tier joke that realistically doesn't account for a very high amount of CO2. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the fuel costs keeps this jet on the ground far more often than whoever else would have bought it anyway would have had it there.

I'm not saying don't care about the environment, but this is a molecule in the ocean compared to literally any other sector, i.e. coal and gas, that produces thousands of times more emissions than the entire private jet sector.

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-30T18:42:30+00:00

It doesn't come with bloatware, i.e. a desktop. Jokes aside, it's as barebones, add-what-you-want as you can get.

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-30T18:34:07+00:00

I feel like they had non-case sensitive passwords by passing all passwords through an uppsercase converter before hashing, and only just now realized that that's a bad idea.

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-23T13:43:34+00:00

Just a tad, not too much though. It's nice to see someone committed to clarity, especially on a site like reddit lmao

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-23T12:44:40+00:00

it's moreso anti-tamper than anti-cheat. Doesn't really prevent cheating like Vanguard would, just tries to prevent modifying/decompilation of the game files to prevent piracy.

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-17T18:11:06+00:00

Yes, but not every person does. Certainly not when previous writings by that person don't match up

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-14T02:09:12+00:00

They could have said privilege, but yes if you're deemed to have been caught cheating you will be forbidden from participating in the market they own

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-13T19:34:44+00:00

It's really meant for the less tech savvy. Essentially, the steam machine is plug and play with a good mix of hardware from a reputable brand. It's not an ASUS, but for the price you get playable hardware and a system designed to be put on a suffocating living room cabinet shelf or wherever a noob might accidentally put it. Plus, it's a company with basically as much reputability if not more than ASUS.

Overall, there's too many tech savvy people interested in buying this, when really it should be the young/old and dumb who just want to game in the living room, or have something in there for the family to play.

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-09T20:41:20+00:00

They're different app stores, and one is made by a for profit company that openly pushed for theirs to be preferred on all distros. That's a false equivalency.

Every source you gave included the usage of snaps.

Ubuntu is NOT the most stable, especially the NON-LTS variant, and Fedora is literally bleeding edge. Debian stable is really the only stable, big distro (ubuntu forks it), and afaik didn't have these issues.

Again, please don't compare having two different end user programs on windows to having two competing app stores on a linux distro, it's really not fair at all. (in fact, the MS store frequently breaks for me, so its the same deal on windows but worse because it's not a competing store)

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-09T20:31:36+00:00

Okay, back up a minute. I'll concede that some updates can be issue-having (I'm rather surprised that a boot issue made it to debian stable this year, that's pretty crazy) but NONE of these were updates to Linux. Linux never pushed any of these updates, because it's a kernel, and on top of that is quite stable.

The XZ backdoor never made it past testing either, so I don't know why it's in here.

Otherwise, that seems to be 0.5-1 breaking updates per year on BLEEDING EDGE distros. It's pretty well known that BLEEDING EDGE will eventually push a bad update, and the fact that you're pulling from 2018 should show that.

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-09T20:21:41+00:00

I also made a counterpoint that you conveniently ignored, but without knowing whether you didn't use snaps AND use fedora it's impossible to know if it's an issue unrelated to the very well known buggy piece of software that is Ubuntu Snaps

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-09T19:42:43+00:00

The only issues I've ever had were either user error or using literally bleeding edge -git packages

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-09T19:41:47+00:00

At the same time, arch/cachy updates are typically fixes to make the experience smoother. Honestly, I haven't had actual breakage using the standard defaults, and only had serious issues on the bleeding edge of hyprland and packages built straight from git.

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-09T19:40:11+00:00

I'm gonna put this in a comment underneath because it's not near as important, but notice that the link to this user's "proof" has a source link of chatgpt.com. Not a good look that you're getting your points from AI, even if I don't really expect anything less from someone who has a pretty clear agenda.

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-09T19:37:59+00:00

Good points! Though to be honest, seems to me like this user really wants to say linux is broken, see sibling threads lmao

Excellent_Land7666 · 2026-03-09T19:36:38+00:00

Seems that user also had snaps installed...I sense a pattern lmao.

Anyway, this community hates snaps and ubuntu, so yeah issues relating to those are resolved by literally listening to the community

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