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by segphault 1683 days ago
And then every time Edge updates it displays a modal dialog that tries to bully me into changing the default search engine to Bing. It feels like Windows gets more user-hostile with every update.

All of the effort that Microsoft has put into things like WSL and Docker integration to make the platform compelling to web application developers is undermined by these tactics. I'm getting really tired of playing whack-a-mole with all of the shady growth hacking that is built directly into the operating system. It bothers me enough that I'm ready to either switch to a Mac or go back to Linux.