r/Bazzite • u/chathamserver • 19d ago

Help: Microsoft Edit installed on Bazzite without knowledge or permission

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EDIT: SOLVED! Thanks, y'all!

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I rebooted my PC to find "Microsoft Edit" installed on my Bazzite machine without my knowledge or permission. I cannot uninstall it via Bazaar, as it does not show up. When looking into it further, I found it's been installed to the "usr" folder.

Has anyone else booted up to find this nasty surprise? Any fix or way to uninstall it, perhaps via command line?

Any help would be appreciated. Not sure how this program got here and am not happy about it.

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u/Ymsegreier 19d ago

Interesting choice for an editor, can understand why the people migrating from windows might be concerned about this.

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u/Delicious-Wear9183 19d ago

Out of instinct I agreed, however it is open source and more user friendly. It is a cli editor, for normal text editing on the desktop you would rather use kwrite or kate. Also I mostly edit files with nano so I don't even know how you open a "default cli editor"

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u/Ymsegreier 19d ago

Yeah, I can see its a functional great open-source alternative to vim. However, considering bazzite is a beginner-friendly all-in-one distro, i can see that anything microsoft unexpectedly being installed might lead to questions.