Comment on Microsoft Edge gets "unfair advantage", browser makers claim
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoRequire Microsoft to distribute competing browsers in the Microsoft store.
I can install Firefox, Chromium etc. from my distro’s package manager. I don’t open a web browser to install software. You still do that on Windows because Microsoft has a financial incentive to keep competitors out of their store, so their store sucks.
Frodo@startrek.website 5 weeks ago
You can install Firefox from Windows’s package manager Winget with the command:
Winget install -e --id Mozilla.FirefoxYou don’t have to use the Store or Edge.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
And how many people in the world will use that? eight?
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 5 weeks ago
Exactly this. The point is not that there is no way to do it, the point is that the alternatives are obscure to limit adoption. It’s a dark pattern.
This winget thing is worse than just using edge to download an alternative. The problem is not that people are forced to interact with a browser they dont like, it’s all the people who don’t know enough to understand that there are alternatives, and those people will never use winget.