You forgot trying to uninstall edge
That’s because your average Windows user is only going to download a .exe. Only power-users (and idiots/daredevils) are going to do anything remotely close to the other things, and they would be well aware of what they are doing.
Do you actually think your average windows user knows what any of the other things mean? Nope.
I’m pretty sure you get warnings trying to delete system32.
Edit: And I mean beyond the standard UAC pop-up.
Meanwhile MS EXCEL: This file with random macros from a shady website could gain admin rights, install 3500 viruses, lock you out, join a botnet, put a million dollar ransom on your PC all within the first minute after opening without you even noticing. Please click ok if you are fine with that.
In before yadda yadda so glad linux yadda yadda
Are you crazy? An exe could corrupt the registry, delete system32, format C:, or delete the MBR! They’re dangerous!
Windows defender works, and it works really well. I haven’t had a virus or used an anti virus (most of which feel like viruses themselves with how intrusive and annoying they have become) in like two decades.
Whoever made this is evil. I tried to blow that stupid dot of paint in the middle off my screen
wouldn’t it be “a .exe” because you pronounce the ‘.’ as “.dot”
.dot would be pronounced “dot dot”
that’s fine, I wasn’t planning on using that 20% of my CPU cycles anyway. And take all the RAM you need on the way out, I was actually saving it for you. thank you sir windows
Windows only pretends to let you be the administrator, until Microsoft wants to do something shitty to you.
Linux actually makes you the administrator, so any screw ups are on you.
User installs Chrome.
It’s not about security. Not anymore, anyway. Maybe when Authenticode was first added to windows. Now they just want to scare users into getting everything through their store, because they’re perennially jealous of the shit Apple can get away with.
Ah yes, chasing the huge success of the Mac app store
More thinking of the ios app store in this case. But they’re also ripping off the osx dock, IMO. :P
they’re perennially jealous of the shit Apple can get away with.
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this is why ill never use anything past win7 and for newer systems just use linux instead (yes im actually moving on from windows)
7 was the last good one :(
I’ve not booted into windows for a few weeks now. It’s been pretty smooth sailing, one horrifically unoptimised game aside.
And people say Linux lets the user shoot himself.
Tbf, you could use portable / user installs (if everyone would actually do their apps right), you can (now) use a package manager and you can (sometimes…) get an official, verified version of an app through the store and even if not, installers are (usually…) signed these days (although criminals do apparently get signatures too…)… And then this all falls apart, because you need a random driver from a random website. Security 👉👉
I poked around in the registry a bit too much awhile ago and managed to delete my only user. Oops! Completely bricked my install, couldn’t even unfuck it with safe mode shenanigans. Had enough space to clone my entire drive so I just lost a couple days of time fiddling with it, only a couple hours actually copying my shit back and forth.
