What happens if you try to download and install Firefox on Windows

Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by isoprophlex on Sunday April 03, 2022 @10:42AM (#30897273)

Yeah I fully agree... incidentally I started a new job april 1st, my employer provided me with a windows laptop. That's why I had this knowledge ready.

First windows experience in many years, it's been equally gross and amusing.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by rejectfinite on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:06AM (#30897453)

>it's been equally gross and amusing.

How?

A domain joined Windows laptop should have GPOs to remove the ads and shit also SCCM/Intune software center / company portal to install the apps you need.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by Godel_unicode on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:13AM (#30897517)

You're giving the average IT department far, far too much credit.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by rejectfinite on Sunday April 03, 2022 @11:15AM (#30897537)

I work in one that does this so maybe?

Having some kind of Windows 10 "golden image" with SCCM/Intune/PDQ for apps is fairly standard.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by isoprophlex on Sunday April 03, 2022 @02:39PM (#30899466)

Gross because the lock screen insists on serving me dumb ass photos with """interesting""" factoids, in an attempt to ???

Gross because I clicked somewhere by accident and the bottom right of my screen was filled with news snippets and some MS ads.

Hilarious because I wanted to change the (default ?) UI scaling from 150 to 100%; there was no obvious way to just type "scaling" somewhere and get to the point, instead I navigated three layers deep through the settings panel, which had three different visual design styles. I read all the windows design snark on HN, without really knowing what is what... turns out it REALLY is as bad as people make it out to be, haha.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by alar44 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @09:45PM (#30902602)

You can change your lock screen to whatever you want.

I don't care what system I'm on, if I wanted to change display settings, I wouldn't search for scaling, I'd search for display settings.

I'm failing to see anything of substance here other than "I didn't immediately know how to do something."

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by rejectfinite on Monday April 04, 2022 @04:52PM (#30911796)

> Gross because the lock screen insists on serving me dumb ass photos with """interesting""" factoids, in an attempt to ???

> Gross because I clicked somewhere by accident and the bottom right of my screen was filled with news snippets and some MS ads.

Yea these suck but you can turn them off. In lock screen settings, and the 2nd one if you right click on it you can turn it off.

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Re:What happens if you try to download and install Firefox o... by Johanx64 on Sunday April 03, 2022 @08:32PM (#30902231)

Coming from win7 to win10 ltsc is still pretty gross and a downgrade overall.

The metro UI... that has to be the ugliest shit I've seen on desktop. And I've seen my share of ugly UIs on Linux.

And the responsiveness/perf is down the drain too... on a new PC with fast nvme

Calling back home on every other thing probably slows things down too.

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