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Microsoft wants Edge to automatically open by default every time you turn on your Windows 11 PC (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 1 week ago by nil@piefed.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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When will they ever learn?

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[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

/home/$(whoami)

-- Frost

[–] jim3692@discuss.online 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Please use $HOME instead of this. There are configurations that do not rely on the usual /home/$USER format. The root user is a good example, having their $HOME set to /root.

[–] forestbeasts@pawb.social 2 points 1 week ago

Oh heh, yeah, o'course! I wasn't really meaning that seriously, more just riffing off the thread of silly $HOME expansions. :3

Probably good to mention that in case someone comes along and thinks /home/$(whoami) is actually a good idea though, hah.

(Mac has normal users' homes in /Users!!)