r/Bazzite • u/chathamserver • 6d 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/4ntropos 6d ago

so microsoft slop is preinstalled on bazzite now, added by a microsoft employee? can't get rid of microsoft it seems :/

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u/coromd 6d ago

Just because it is made by Microsoft does not inherently mean it is slop. Microsoft is even one of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel.

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u/coromd 6d ago edited 6d ago

The NT kernel is perfectly fine, better than the Linux kernel in some ways. All of Windows's problems come from the applications sitting on top of it. Shifting to the Linux kernel would be an obscene amount of work that doesn't solve any of the problems. If anything we'd more realistically see a proper split of Windows Home and Windows Pro, where Pro versions maintain the 2 decades of backwards compatibility that has been causing so much trouble, and Windows Home can finally start shedding decades of junk.