It's (usually) already installed

Browsers are bloat.
-- average Arch user

OS ships with a browser.

Boo!

OS ships with a browser.

Yay!

But edge is chrome.

As a former edge user. I now use Firefox.

You 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.

why do windows users install chrome?

i don't get it, edge comes preinstalled on windows and it's chromium-based.

I'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.

Not anymore. Just open PowerShell

winget install whateveryouwant

winget install Google.Chrome

Windows has a package manager like a big boy OS these days

not even that

winget install Mozilla.Firefox

unpopular opinion preinstalling any browser is wrong

"It's already installed... as a Snap package."

This meme makes no sense. Why would Windows want that?

Surprisingly I dont get weird popups when installing Firefox

Not on arch it isn't.

I recently heard that manjaro cinnamon comes with Vivaldi pre-installed

Actually like the Chromium Edge; way better than Chrome. But Firefox.

Someone should make a distro that is just all the annoying stuff in windows.

But then you use Debian and what's preinstalled is Firefox ESR, so you have to install Firefox anyway.

Meanwhile I have to install links manually

Just install scoop and install packages in the terminal if you're bothering with Windows

Why are you guys doing default installs? Setup you preseeds and get what you want.

My 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.

Yeah 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.

Edge, especially for work, is fantastic.

Which is why I remove it and install Vivaldi instead... and ungoogled Chromium sometimes.