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Originally Posted by Quoth
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.
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That is totally true. I'm not talking about the default browser. I'm talking about the default search engine in Firefox with Mint. By default it's Duck Duck Go and Linux Mint goes the extra step to remove Google from the included search providers list on Firefox. On any other distro/platform Google is already included (and default) and you just click Google in the search bar or in settings. On Mint you have to go through extra steps to add Google back that are not obvious.
I'm not making this stuff up. It's harder than it should be or is on any other platform because Mint wants their DDG monies. There's countless blog posts and forum threads on how to do this. Here's a sampling:
https://www.systutorials.com/how-to-...search-engine/
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=269835
https://devopspoints.com/linux-mint-...n-firefox.html