Microsoft can't spend a week without reminding people of switching to Linux.

I downloaded MicrosoftSettings.exe and ran it on my test PC. The installer is 22.2MB. I have Chrome and Brave set up with their own defaults, and searching from either pulled up Google and Brave Search respectively.

The first screen is titled “Welcome to Microsoft Recommended Search Settings,” with a toggle already switched to “Yes” for setting Bing as your search engine. Small text underneath says the change applies to Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Google Chrome.

Installing Firefox takes like 3 minutes, you couldn't spin up one more browser for science?

This type of app is classified as Chromeloader malware when it’s used to force install Yahoo Search with an affiliate ID. Why does Microsoft think it’s fine when THEY do it?

Remember the days when microsoft would get slapped with an antitrust lawsuit for simply preinstalling a browser? Pepperidge farm remembers.

$M💩 needs a massive antitrust lawsuit to put them in their place

It used to just be good fun to rip on MS for having a shitty OS. I never thought they’d start doing it on purpose.

I wonder if it's there for OEMs.

It’s almost like M$ is trying to push people to Linux at this point

You misspelled Microslop.

At this point in history if you’re still on windows you deserve what you get

Sure, annoy people some more why dontcha?

We Are Microsoft.

You Will Be Assimilated.

Resistance Is Futile.

Yeah I feel like this is getting close to violating anti trust laws like when they got into trouble with Microsoft Explorer.

This is malware. I've had viruses that have done similar.

I do not understand Linux. I do not understand terminal. Logically I should be using the more popular, easier to understand, financially backed operating system. The pattern used to be 1 bad windows release then 1 good release. XP was good, Vista was bad. 7 was good, 8 was bad. So I expected 10 to be good. And it just wasn't. And the thing is, it never got back to how amazing XP was for it's time. 7 was good, but it felt lacking. It should have been better. I didn't switch from XP until the very end. And then I think I went another year or two unsupported. Until finally that PC died, and then I bought a Windows 7 PC almost into the days of Windows 10. And used that until 2023. I still use the PC hardware, but now I have ZorinOS. Which is fine. I almost know how to do things after 2 years. I still can't figure out installing Audacious. Keeps telling me the package requires dependancies, but won't install them. But day to day browsing, and various other tasks I get by reasonably well enough.

So you'd think I should have stuck with windows, but FUCK THAT SHIT!!! I will pay for a good operating system. I don't care about the money. What I care for is a minimalist UI, with a start button and a task bar. Clock in the lower right, along with a shortcut to various other toggles, like bluetooth, wifi, display settings, ect. and next to the start button should be 3 shortcut program buttons. Right now I only have two. Firefox and the file manager. I need to right click the taskbar to have a context menu to give the option to start the task manager.

Zorin has all of that. It's been two years, so I don't remember how much of this I customized. I know for the first month I STRUGGLED. Then I finally got things the way I like. I know my current task bar is a mod. My setup feels very Modern day Windows XP. Except instead of "Start", my start button says "Fuck", because it makes me giggle that I can do that. All in all, I feel functional in someone elses home. You know when you stay with your friend on the other side of the country? And you're there for like 2 weeks, and by day 10 it starts feeling like you kinda sorta know your way around everything in the house? But maybe you don't know how to work the stereo system to work with the TV. So you just watch it with the TV speakers. That's how I feel with Linux. I can get things done, but I don't feel at home.

So when I see microsoft headlines like this, where it's just straight up bullshit, I feel bad for those who still use windows. Then suddenly Linux starts to feel a lot more like home than Windows does these days. So good job Microsoft. You legitimately drove me away as a customer, and continued to keep me at bay simply by existing as you currently are.

Laughing in Firefox's Forks on my Linux distro.

Calm down guys, it's just some random exe on their server they made sometime in history.

Maybe they wanted to push it, but then reconsidered. Maybe the fines would have been larger than the revenue from this move or whatever. It's how those megacorps work (and why they shouldn't exist).

I clicked uninstall on Windows years ago.

lmfao, they really don't know how to stop failing, i see

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