Re:Spectre mitigations murder userspace performance
by vladvasiliu on Sunday June 20, 2021 @01:20AM
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> Give it time; it's a trickle campaign. Just this morning I updated my Win 10 Pro desktop, and on reboot I got a full screen wizard prompting me to "use recommended browser settings" which is doublespeak for changing my default browser to Edge.
Yeah, I actually think this is a case of "don't explain by malice that which could be adequately explained by stupidity" or something.
I'm only a casual Windows user (only use for it games) and never bother to install another browser, Edge works well enough to download Steam and occasionally look up something on the internet.
Earlier this week when it installed the new update I also got the same "use recommended browser settings" dialog box. I think I had disabled 3rd party cookies or something as well as the random junk on the new page, so not willing to click around for half an hour I denied using anything and all went well. I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time I see the "use recommended settings" on this PC, since seeing it gave me an "again?!" reaction.
This is a Win10 Pro that's always been kept up to date.
Yeah, I actually think this is a case of "don't explain by malice that which could be adequately explained by stupidity" or something.
I'm only a casual Windows user (only use for it games) and never bother to install another browser, Edge works well enough to download Steam and occasionally look up something on the internet.
Earlier this week when it installed the new update I also got the same "use recommended browser settings" dialog box. I think I had disabled 3rd party cookies or something as well as the random junk on the new page, so not willing to click around for half an hour I denied using anything and all went well. I'm pretty sure this isn't the first time I see the "use recommended settings" on this PC, since seeing it gave me an "again?!" reaction.
This is a Win10 Pro that's always been kept up to date.