Browsers are bloat.
-- average Arch user 106ReplyOS ships with a browser.
Boo!
OS ships with a browser.
Yay!
62ReplyBut edge is chrome.
As a former edge user. I now use Firefox.
42ReplyYou install something that at the core is the same as you but with a better interface.
It's funny how Microsoft just gave up on creating a new web browser and instead just rebranded someone else's homework.
41Replywhy do windows users install chrome?
i don't get it, edge comes preinstalled on windows and it's chromium-based.
27ReplyI'm amaze by how many people still use chrome based browser. They really want to get their face eat by a leopard. Well we told you people, there's no reason left not to use firefox.
27ReplyNot anymore. Just open PowerShell
winget install whateveryouwant
23Replynot even that
winget install Mozilla.Firefox
22Replywinget install Google.Chrome
Windows has a package manager like a big boy OS these days
22Replyunpopular opinion preinstalling any browser is wrong
18Reply"It's already installed... as a Snap package."
6ReplyThis meme makes no sense. Why would Windows want that?
Surprisingly I dont get weird popups when installing Firefox
6ReplyI recently heard that manjaro cinnamon comes with Vivaldi pre-installed
5ReplyNot on arch it isn't.
5ReplyBut then you use Debian and what's preinstalled is Firefox ESR, so you have to install Firefox anyway.
4ReplyActually like the Chromium Edge; way better than Chrome. But Firefox.
4ReplySomeone should make a distro that is just all the annoying stuff in windows.
4ReplyMeanwhile I have to install links manually
3ReplyYeah but sometimes it's the ESR version which is super slow to get feature updates. Though I suppose that's fair for distros intended for server or other enterprise applications.
1ReplyWhy are you guys doing default installs? Setup you preseeds and get what you want.
1ReplyJust install scoop and install packages in the terminal if you're bothering with Windows
1ReplyMy work stuff wont work in firefox, yeah that's a new fun enterprise thing. In any case I use edge on osx for those few sites, firefox for everything else.
1ReplyEdge, especially for work, is fantastic.
-3ReplyWhich is why I remove it and install Vivaldi instead... and ungoogled Chromium sometimes.
-10Reply