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Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users.
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For casual users that only need a web browser, a mail client and an office suite, Linux is a great replacement for Windows.
You all keep saying that, and I'm not saying I can't ultimately make the move, but there's always something that doesn't quite work as easily.
Then there's always a solution to that which isn't quite what you want and involves a lot of terminal which isn't really something casual users want.
For me this time it was OneDrive which I want to be able to use, trust, and have control over without terminal commands and a half baked GUI. I get it, fuck Microsoft, but it's already paid for and we're not moving because my wife, who is doing dome contracting work, doesn't want to mess with what she is familiar with.
That does make change difficult.
Incredibly so.
There is also the issue that if you want to work together with other companies who use 365, they often want you to send them files in Office formats. Yes, you can also make Office 365 work on Linux, but at that point people already don't want to try it out anymore.
Personally I just tried Linux Mint for a short period and there is a lot to love. But I'm doing a huge personal project in which I'm reorganizing tens of thousands of photos which I want to store in OneDrive and backup on a drive. Currently I'm just more familiar with Windows and I understand how OneDrive works (instead of something like rclone on Linux). After I'm done I'm going to reinstall Mint or something similar on my secondary SSD and try to set up OneDrive in a satisfying way.
Ironically I'm biting the hand that feeds me as I work as a lowcode developer using Microsoft Dynamics/Power Platform. But still, Microsoft can eat a bag of sweaty sausages for what they've done with privacy, bloat, annoying restrictions in Windows 10/11.