tech savvy ppl and non-techy ppl both dont like Edge, Bing and copilot
Something about Microsoft UI just feels so off for some reason. Material UI, Apple stuff all feels good to use but clicking on a button in Microsoft UI is just… bad.
Windows-only users would never know, but people who’ve either used a modern mac or linux computer will understand.
Or windows users that have been around 20 plus years…
Really it is sad just how bad its all gone.
It makes me think of Fisher Price toys.
yeah it does really feel plasticky in the worst way
Fisher-Price actually has solidity to it. I’d take that over these pseudomagical plastic sticky notes.
People called Windows XP “Fisher-Price”!
You forgot the panel where the tech savvy people wash their hands afterwards
Edge is just Chromium now (so worth hating still, but for different reason), and Bing has its uses. Hell, isn’t DuckDuckGo basically Bing?
Bing has its uses
Porn?
Also yes.
Also
Go on…
Like I said, it’s one of the engines that drive DuckDuckGo. These days I only turn to Google on the rare occasion that DuckDuckGo fails me, so Bing gets some appreciation from me there.
Id feel better about DuckDuckGo if it wasnt shoehorning ai
Yeah, it’s like bing but actually anonymous.
Yup. Never understood the Bing hate, they got better years ago. DDG is a source in my SearXNG instance, does fine.
Tech savvy people like Duckduckgo, Duckduckgo uses Bing under the hood
I host my own search engine lol.
Ah, finally someone using the European open Search index?
No lol. SearXNG. But would look up what you mentioned
SearXNG is not a search engine. It is a Frontend for everything from Google to bing.
Ik that. I was talking in terms of a layman.
We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results.
DDG uses a whole bunch of stuff, including feeding anonymized results through the bing API, but they’ve been largely driven by their own indexes for several years now after using Bing to bootstrap themselves.
i like edging
Did I tell anyone about that time that I use arch?
Honestly, the preinstalled spyware aside, Edge is a pretty good browser. It’s, like, Chrome but better
Edge is a pretty good browser.
Setting aside my requirements to minimize spying and avoiding big tech. I agree.
But the dick is at least lubed!
Chrome is fucking us all no matter what form it happens to be taking at the time.
I use Edge on Linux
Hello Satan.
Google is fucking unusable as a search engine now. Bing is literally better now if you block the AI part.
Was searching for something very simple. Google literally wouldn’t find it. Changed the search terms multiple times.
Tried bing and it literally popped up as the first result with the same first search I tried on Google.
This isn’t a one time thing either. Give me an alternate to Bing. But Google is literally hot garbage now.
Bing is a better search engine than Google, but both are pale imitations of their former selves. It’s amazing how bad search has gotten in the last ~5 years
Bing used to be better than Google for a time but it has gotten worse too to the point where I use Google again. Edge is, IMO, unfairly maligned. It’s a perfectly good browser, although Microsoft begging me to use it is quite annoying.
On my work computer I actually use Edge over Chrome since it has vertical tabs by default.
Edges vertical tabs are actually one of the best implementations. Zen is close but it can be unstable, especially if you start moving tabs out of the existing window, it fucks up essentials.
Edge is actually pretty great. Bing…well, the image search is okay.
Don’t knock Bing Videos, either. It’s the best porn search engine in existence.
I’ve heard that! But I’m gay so I’m not sure the shareholders want it to serve me.
I’m pan and trust me it’s not an issue. You can find anything you want there.
I know this is the wrong place for this but I like edge.
Im dumb, whats the w logo?
Waterfox. It started out as a 64-bit build of Firefox for Windows, back when Mozilla didn’t offer that yet. These days, I believe, it just offers a few different defaults…
Like librewolf its basically firefox without mozilla bs
And it also has an android versionAnd with RFP on by default.
I didn’t knew librewolf had an android version. Fdroid?
They don’t. On their website they recommend ironfox for android. Haven’t tried it yet myself though (i have hoarded over 100 tabs on my phone so it’s kind of a pain to switch browser).
Ohh
