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Microsoft's official "Bing Wallpaper app" does some nasty, malware-like things to Windows (www.techspot.com)

submitted 6 days ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The app automatically installs Bing Visual Search and includes code to decrypt cookies saved in other browsers, Rivera said, and it also brings a "free" geolocation web API to the system.

The developer discovered "many" nasty tricks Microsoft integrated in Bing Wallpapers, which include trying to change the browser's settings and set Edge as the default system browser. If the default browser isn't Edge, the app will open the default browser after some time asking to enable the previously installed Microsoft Bing Search for Chrome extension.

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[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 144 points 6 days ago (4 children)

They are trying so hard to push everybody to linux. The only thing that has kept me using windows is game development tool chains, but even that isn't gonna be enough to keep me on windows much longer.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 85 points 6 days ago (49 children)

The Godot Engine is getting better every day.

[–] pycorax@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

If you're already using a third party engine it shouldn't be as big of a deal jumping to Linux. But if you're doing engine development, the tools on Windows are still superior. There's a big reason why Direct3D is still so popular despite being constrained to only Xbox and Windows. Tooling and documentation for Vulkan and OpenGL are light years behind and it's frustrating to see how vast the differences are as someone who primarily works with Vulkan/OpenGL and haa dabbled with Direct3D as a hobby.

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[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Dual boot and encrypt your Linux drives so windows can't access them, or run windows in an isolated VM. Only use Windows when you absolutely need to and use Linux for everything else.

That's the best way to get yourself used to it. I did that with PC gaming. All my servers, my personal laptop, and my personal desktop all run Linux and just the personal desktop has windows dual boot. Now many games run on Linux, so I don't even boot Windows. It's been like a year or more since I last touched Windows outside of my work laptop.

And with KDE Plasma desktop, even my non-tech-savy partner had no problem switching. Fedora has a Plasma district that works really well for me.

[–] poleslav@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

If only flight sims and peripherals worked on Linux It’s been the one think keeping me back.

[–] TechnologyChef@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

I left a long time ago while they would entertain my classmates of new features I had been using for 4 years. Everyone thought I was embarrassed when the MS rep told me they had to look at legal consequences before adding features that could be patented by others when I asked why they hadn't added a menu of WiFi access points, yet I sat there wondering how our open source community built so much and took care of each other in collaboration. I understood they had to be careful to not get sued, but they also thrived in that world for competition rather than selling services.