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      4 months ago

      I haven’t kept up with Edge Shenanigans since I no longer use Windows, but the last time I used it I had no issues using Firefox instead of Edge.

      Yeah sure you can add repositories to replace Canonical Sources to evade those dummied out packages, but you really really shouldn’t need to do that in the first place.

      So the only difference is: MS enforcement is more stringent than Canonical, but they both force their respective ways onto the user (which may or may not versed enough to actually add/remove apt repositories).

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          4 months ago

          Oh so that’s still a thing that you need to set every file extensions and protocol separately to the other browser. Yeah that is stupid.

          And it only takes a minute on Ubuntu if you Know what you are doing. The regular user probably only see that their applications are slow to start and need to search the internet why, if they care at all.

          And why is that? Because Canonical doesn’t tell you that you installed a snap, Microsoft is “honest” enough and tells you that they are shitty and want you to use Edge.