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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
Last time I used Linux Mint they were forcing DDG as the default browser search engine and they were extremely aggressive about that as it doesn't even come with the option to switch to Google pre-included. It's honestly easier to switch from Bing to Google in Microsoft Edge than Firefox on Mint. At least last time I tried. Left a bad taste in my mouth.
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That's never been true. Whereas Edge on Win 10 is impossible to remove or completely disable. As was once the case with IE4. MS even inflicted Edge on Win 7 last month!
You can make ANY browser the default on Linux, if there is a Linux version. I even have ancient versions of browsers for Win 95 in WINE for ancient multimedia titles.
I've never had trouble changing the default search in Firefox or Waterfox. I also have Chromium purely to access some Google services and the odd stupid website I need that only works on a Chrome based browser.
Linux Mint is my regular all day OS since December 2016, but I gave courses on Red Hat Linux to Dell in the late 1990s, used Cromix in 1986 and MS Xenix in 1987.
Using, installing and selling NT since 1994.