This is so stupid. I was wondering if I could recommend to less technically-skilled family members to just stick to Edge, but I've decided that I definitely won't, as I do not want to explain countless times how to switch back to Google from Bing, etc. Bing is simply terrible and Microsoft's push of it is ridiculous. I'll keep recommending Firefox + uBlock to everyone.
Also, I find it disrespectful to its customers. Windows is not free. If you buy a computer that already comes with it, you're paying for it. If you buy a license, you paid for it. It is not fair that its users are constantly nagged and mistreated in this way. And by the way, Apple started doing the same with Big Sur: when I open Firefox on macOS, a popup asks me to switch to Safari. This happens once in a while and there's no clear way to dismiss forever this notification. A user pays a lot for Apple hardware: can't they use it without being bothered? And of course Google does the same on their websites (even if luckily uBlock Origin allows me to avoid that).
If only Linux could support all the tools I need for my work, I'd switch to it in a heartbeat and be done with this intrusive and disrespectful nagging.
Yes exactly, this has been the best part of switching to Linux at home. It just does what I tell it, when I tell it, and that's so relaxing. Using corporate platforms is like inviting a Microsoft/Apple/Google representative into your home. Imagine if when you bought an Ikea kitchen setup, it came with an Ikea rep who lived with you and reminded you periodically that the cabinets "work best with Ikea flatware(tm)!".
A computer should be an appliance which executes instructions on command, and that's it. Everything else is electricity theft as far as I'm concerned.
Also, I find it disrespectful to its customers. Windows is not free. If you buy a computer that already comes with it, you're paying for it. If you buy a license, you paid for it. It is not fair that its users are constantly nagged and mistreated in this way. And by the way, Apple started doing the same with Big Sur: when I open Firefox on macOS, a popup asks me to switch to Safari. This happens once in a while and there's no clear way to dismiss forever this notification. A user pays a lot for Apple hardware: can't they use it without being bothered? And of course Google does the same on their websites (even if luckily uBlock Origin allows me to avoid that).
If only Linux could support all the tools I need for my work, I'd switch to it in a heartbeat and be done with this intrusive and disrespectful nagging.