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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by gscott on Saturday March 08, 2025 @10:46PM (#43306002)
If you buy a cheap computer with Windows S it is very hard to get out of the S configuration and in S configuration you can't install Chrome at all or Firefox.
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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by gnabgib on Saturday March 08, 2025 @10:56PM (#43306056)
You can switch out of S mode (for free) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/switching-out-of...
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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by Suppafly on Monday March 10, 2025 @01:16PM (#43322728)
Doing it that way is a pain if don't want to create a microsoft account, which when tries to convert your computer account to a microsoft account. Pretending that it's easy to switch by requiring you to use the microsoft store to do so is a really shitty antipattern.
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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by alt227 on Monday March 10, 2025 @02:15PM (#43323734)
99% of Windows users use a microsoft account these days, so this method is trivial for most.
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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by dboreham on Saturday March 08, 2025 @11:47PM (#43306339)
Not very hard in my experience. Not even hard.
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Re:The DOJ Still Wants Google to Sell Off Chrome by Panzer04 on Sunday March 09, 2025 @12:02AM (#43306425)
But very much nonobvious. I recently had to help one of my parents when they couldn't figure out how to install some software, and it turned out to be S - but I had to do a bunch of digging to figure it out and I'm good with computers.
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