These changes are only applicable to users in the EEA. For those outside the region, Windows will continue to function as it is!
The changes to Windows for DMA-compliance include:
- You can now uninstall Edge and Bing web search using the built-in settings. Earlier, the option was greyed out.
- Third-party web search application developers can now utilize the Windows search box in the taskbar using the instructions provided by Microsoft and choose any web browser to show results from the web.
- Microsoft will no longer sign-in users to Edge, Bing, and Microsoft Start services during the initial Windows setup experience.
- Data collected about the functioning of non-Microsoft apps, primarily bug detection and its effects on the OS, from Windows PCs will not be used for competitive purposes.
- Microsoft, from now on, will need explicit user consent before combining data from the OS and other sources. It will also deliver new consent screens where required.
The reason you don’t ever hear linux users say how much their OS sucks is because all of you are just fucking cultists.
I don’t like windows, I don’t like microsoft, but I’ll tell you this the headaches I’ve gotten from supporting 10 Ubuntu desktops was five times greater than the 200 other windows users on-site.
Acktshully,
All the Linux users you’re not hearing bitching about their OS is because they can’t get to a browser right now, due to their environments all being borked due to [ the latest update putting them in circular dependency hell / a default option shipped with their distro hidden in a config file somewhere is not set to a sane value / their Wi-Fi driver is not compatible with the latest kernel version / nVidia drivers exploded after enabling the wiggly window effect / unexplained kernel panic / failure to read the wiki ], choose all that apply.
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Not going to lie I’ve had some of those issues be the reason I gave up on any one of my 9 attempts to go full linux as a daily driver.