tech savvy ppl and non-techy ppl both dont like Edge, Bing and copilot
ppl
\sigh
You forgot the panel where the tech savvy people wash their hands afterwards
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.
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
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…
Ohh
What I find interesting is when typically non tech savvy people start using things like Brave.
Goes to show how shit the tech industry is
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.
In my experience non-techy people just don’t know what Edge and Bing are.
Which “non-techy people” are we talking about here?
Nowadays some people only use smartphones or maybe tablets, and they might not know that. But most non-techy desktop users still use Windows and they certainly ought to know the default browser (and its search engine) on their OS, I would think.
I’m talking about people on Windows desktops. They don’t know what Windows is, they confuse Office with Windows all the time, they go online through the “internet symbol” which is their default browser that they don’t know the name of. Google is their default search engine and they’ve never seen any other search engine.
If Google is their default search engine, they must at least be tech-savvy enough to have changed the search engine in Edge, or installed another browser (probably Chrome).
No they complained to enough people around them that “the internet doesn’t work” until someone did it for them
They might know the icon; they probably don’t know its name tho.
For many non-techy people it’s probably simply the internet button.
Did I tell anyone about that time that I use arch?
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.
Google isn’t as good as it was and bing isn’t as bad as it once was
Id feel better about DuckDuckGo if it wasnt shoehorning ai
DDG seems fairly gentle about pushing it though.
Meh
Not just DuckDuckGo - the majority of search engines and voice assistants that aren’t Google use data from Bing. It’s the largest search engine that has a public API. Even search engines that have their own index usually use Bing to supplement their results.
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.
Non tech savvy people don’t care which browser they’re using. A lot of them do actually use Edge, since it comes with Windows.
I hate Bing but right now I am sour on anything Google.
I’m pretty tech savvy, I daily drive Arch and I don’t use Firefox or anything based on Gecko. Meme doesn’t check out.
