Microsoft is testing a new Windows 11 Search toggle that disables Bing, MSN, and Microsoft Store results, ending years of forced web results.
  • earthworm@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12 hours

    I assume they’re replacing it with Autopilot Scout TotallyNotAIGuysISwearThisTime.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      12 hours

      and I’m sure it won’t turn itself back on anyway every software update… with 15 promtps “hey are you really sure you don’t want to use this, we’ve improved it, why don’t you try it again before you disable it again”.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8 hours

      Gamers do, because game devs suck up to Microsoft by not putting PC games on Linux or macOS. Sadly, even “indie” devs.

      • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8 hours

        99,9% of all games I “own”, I can play on Linux just fine. Except fucknuggets like destiny2, which you technically could play if only bungie allowed it. Might look slightly different if you only play multiplayer, I dunno. Those with aggressive root - kits anti-cheat maybe.

        Actually I even game better now. Before I made a tool just to be able to pause a game at any time, which worked like 50% of the time, sometimes fucking all up. On Linux it’s a small script with 100% success. To me, a major improvement.

        I still have a windows drive for “emergencies” when a game won’t run. Haven’t booted it since I switched in January. And I game like 4-8hrs a day (with breaks) with different games all day.

        Thanks to steam’s efforts, Linux gaming is absolutely viable. All is fine, performance, HDR, sound, input…nothing is worse now.

        • Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish
          3 hours

          Lol I switched to cachyos also about 4 months ago and I completely agree with you.

          My only game that doesn’t work is Battlefield 6 and it’s just because their anticheat doesn’t authenticate linux environment. They could but explicitly said that would permit linux cheaters to ruin the game. Well too bad, I lost one game and gain a lot of freedom and “sovereignty” over my operating system. I also have a dusty windows partition that I dread having to boot after 4 months. I’d rather not imagine the state of that W10 outdated partition :/

          I also think I game better on cachyos mostly because I have more free RAM and less background stuff running I don’t need while I’m playing.

          The only thing I don’t really agree with you is HDR. I kind of gave up for now on tweaking games to support it. On some games I never could make it work even with a lot of tweaking (gamescope etc). On some other games I made the effort but just couldn’t see the difference so it seemed not worth it. On Windows I had nothing at all to do to get 100% functional HDR on all games.

          Still very very happy to be gaming on linux and the fact that I play even more on linux than I did on Windows shows how practical it is.

        • orclev@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 hours

          I game almost every single day, and haven’t booted Windows in years. In the last 3 years I haven’t actually had any game I wanted to play not be able to run in Linux. I’ve had one that crashed non-stop, but judging by the thousands of complaints from Windows users about the same thing that wasn’t a Linux problem.

          So yeah, gaming is no excuse, you can game just fine under Linux as long as the devs don’t intentionally block Linux like what happened with Destiny 2 (which Bungie just summarily executed so they can dump more cash into the trash fire that is Marathon, RIP Bungie I await the bankruptcy announcement).

        • ripcord@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6 hours

          The interface for getting it set up is still worse if you’re not using Steam. But I agree it is way way way more viable than it was even 3 years ago.

  • Sexy Animal Fucker@thebrainbin.org
    11 hours

    They’ll probably still make it break something after removing it and then be like “Oh tHis prObLEm CAn bE fiXEd bY iNStaLLinG biNG”

  • rants_unnecessarily@piefed.socialEnglish
    8 hours

    But you’ve always been able to turn it off…

    One of the first things I do to a new computer/reinstall.

    Maybe it was from regedit, not sure, but still possible.

  • Turbodad@feddit.orgEnglish
    12 hours

    I can’t wait. Forced to work on windows this bing stnuts thing popping open when I press return too fast is fing annoying as hell.