Stephen shared a fantastic Windows installation tool. Ninite.
As for willy-nilly searching ambiguously for "google chrome" I think you
deserve to have those results served to you. Since that lazy mentality is
the exact target of that attack vector. It is not that difficult to go to
the authorized webpage for the content you are seeking.
As users we should not fully trust the tools we use. It is nice to have
higher quality tools. But those higher quality tools can still be spoofed
to serve us malware. Bashing on Microsoft is not an appropriate use of
energy, electrons, or effort. Go do something more useful than ranting your
dislike, disdain, etc. of a company that does not meet your unrealistic
expectations.
-Matt
On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 11:12 AM Mark Phillips <
mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:
> I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on a Surface Pro 4 using this custom kernel
>
> https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface/
>
> and it works really well.
>
> Mark
>
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018, 10:49 AM Stephen Partington <cryptworks@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ninite installer (ninite.com) stashed on your installation media can
>> allow you to sidestep ever launching edge :-)
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 12:51 AM Eric Oyen <eric.oyen@icloud.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Wow.
>>> Guess that means they want you on their *ahem* browser and won’t take
>>> downloading another for an answer.
>>>
>>> I tried out edge on win10 with jaws. Forget it! Not very accessible and
>>> even win10 narrator wouldn’t do everything in there either. I haven’t tried
>>> out NVDA on that as yet (been doing a little troubleshooting of my mates
>>> machine here and the win10 desktop is a kludge of hit and miss
>>> accessibility using either narrator or jaws. SMH
>>>
>>> -Eric
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 27, 2018, at 10:54 PM, Michael Butash <michael@butash.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Saw this tonight, not so unbelievable, and yet such a dirtbag thing to
>>> see.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/10/27/stop-using-microsoft-edge-to-download-chrome-unless-you-want-malware/
>>>
>>> Exactly why I defected to linux. I note when I install a windoze os
>>> still, launching edge to search "google chrome" results it in it begging
>>> you not to leave. It's funny to me.
>>>
>>> I keep a dated old chrome and firefox around on a share to bootstrap off
>>> of so as not to even launch edge for a while now, at least at home.
>>>
>>> Now they just link you to malware. Caveat emtor indeed.
>>>
>>> -mb
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>> --
>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from
>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>
>> Stephen
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