POOF

Wish 1: Delete your self (the genie deletes your sense of self)

Edge is the best browser for downloading much better browsers lol

You needed permission from the SYSTEM or TrustedInstaller account.

Which you can give to yourself if you are admin.

Did it work after that?

Not necessarily. Linux can have files that are r---r---r--- too

Me, realizing I can't delete Edge because the OS assumes it's installed

Only if you don't know how to use Windows.

Which I am starting to suspect a ton of Linux users on here are incapable of.

I still remember the biggest brainfart moment as a child. I was playing video games on my computer, and kinda just looked around. On the pc was a turbo button, so i pressed it, turbo makes games faster. I looked again and one button said power. I wonder what that doe... I'm dumb.

In the basic case you go to settings and change permissions.

In the more typical case for os modifications, you go to that tab, open advanced properties, change the owner account by typing in "everyone" or your account name by hand, saving, closing reopening the advanced security settings, probably disable inheritance then create a new permission entry.

In the most extreme case, where you change files belonging to something critical like windows defender or edge, you can't.
The only way I am aware of is booting into an older windows install iso, or a live linux iso, then performing the modifications there.

Disclaimer: I have not done this on windows 11 yet, but I can't imagine the process got simplified.

Windows has a lot of systems that allow some more complicated modifications. Those are often unnecessarily obfuscated, the registry for example doesn't have to be a weird custom database, it could have been part of the filesystem or at least a more standard database format. Windows will sometimes bite you with weird sketchy systems breaking expectations, and this tends to become inevitable when you try to change stuff Microsoft has decided to remove consumer choice on.
If Edge and the account push were as easy to avoid as learning how to take basic file ownership, we might not be where we are now (i.e. on Linux).

Glad to see another voice of sanity regarding Windows.

If you haven't learned by now, on Lemmy the only valid option for dealing with Windows configuration and basic Windows admin tasks is to yeet Windows and go to Linux.

Iirc there are ways to format your command to get it to do this. So whatever app you're using just chose to format its command the simpler way.

Some do. I'm sure it is possible with terminal programs. In KDE, you do get authenticator pop-ups.

Linux apps follow simplicity principles. If you don't have permission to delete a file, why assume you may know the password of the user who has permission?

You can preface sudo to any command to execute it with root privileges, which would be similar to running as admin in windows.

Graphical apps do tend to ask for authentication if it makes sense. No userland apps should need more permissions than the current user's in order to run.

The GUI apps do (depends on your DE). Terminal apps like nano are designed to work without fancy desktop stuff, like Polkit. Any sort of graphical text editor should prompt you for your password.

systemctl still asks for a password, though. Because it's systemd, and it's part of everything.

Wrong root password, this incident will be reported

 sudo chown -R <user> /

Never have a permission issue again! Lmao

Why use a hack when you can just go into properties and take ownership there?

The only thing this does is make a shortcut.

God that is great mascot. It sears itself into your brain.

So... Go try that and notice Windows is basically always encrypted at rest nowadays.

You can always decap your TPM and use a STM to read the static charges on its memory... But, good luck doing that.