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    [–] eochaid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Did I say I was defending MS' restrictions on Edge? No. I think it's dumb, but not for the reason you think.

    MS prevents you from uninstalling edge because for some stupid reason a bunch of system processes and their store all require and use edge as a dependency. Removing edge would actually break a lot of things in windows. Is it stupid? Absolutely. But the reason they don't want to do that is because MS implements a lot of restrictions like this to prevent their end users from breaking windows with stupid mistakes.

    But this meme isn't about allowing people to removing edge. Its trying to flex on the capabilities of linux vs. windows but using the laziest smooth brained way to do that. There are a lot of benefits to linux over windows. But the ability to sudo fuck your bootloader isn't one of them.

    [–] thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

    The reason they don't is because of the antitrust suit they had back in the day. The tried to argue internet explorer was a integrated part of the OS so they didn't have to remove it. Now they are forcing edge to be just that so they do their old anti trust shit again

    [–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    Are those lot of things actually useful? I forcibly removed edge or most of its files anyway and had no issue. The links won't work obviously but that's a feature to me. Fuck edge and windows.

    [–] eochaid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

    Look I'm not going to defend windows or Microsoft. Personally I doubt its useful at all but it doesn't really matter. A broken dependency is a broken dependency.

    Even if it's a pet project from a bing exec that's completely unnecessary - if removing it will break things, an os geared towards a general public should prevent it from being removed.

    [–] voidMainVoid@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

    One of the things that people like about Linux is how configurable it is. This meme is alluding to the power that Linux gives users through a technique known as "humor".

    [–] eochaid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Oh duh, you're absolutely right, I forgot about the oft used configuration option of "sudo fuck my boot loader = enabled"

    If linuxmemes thinks this meme is humor, it explains a lot.