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I couldn't find a complaint with a quick googling.... probably because Google is now a shitty place to find stuff. But check out the process for changing over to another browser. It's so fucking annoying.
My solution was changing over to another operating system. I've had it to here with Microsoft, and with Proton on Steam being great as it is I really had no more excuses to stick to Windows.
Yeah my laptop now runs Mint and my pc windows because of reasons (scanner soft, I know Photoshop really well, 3dsmax, I'm lazy, ...).
Every time I open up my windows pc it had rebooted and not stayed in deep sleep, and everything is more and more just complicated.
I spend more and more time on my laptop... where it doesn't feel line I'm on a browser without an adblocker. I also excuse any (rare) problems way easier as I think it's just a bug, not someones feature.
I was already using programs with native Linux versions, such as Blender 3D, Krita, Gimp, Libre Office. Blender 3D even renders a bit faster in Linux.
The only reason why I didn't switch over until Microsoft started forcing Windows 11 down everyone's throats was because of my games library. Valve eliminated that problem, hallowed be Gabe.
For the average home user, Linux is a possibility. But MS has the office world captured.
Just try to replace Office, their directory services, etc, without having costly (as in time) issues with all sorts of things.
That said, MS is caught in the middle with O365 and Azure - no reason to use Windows if they just host it all for you.
I guess MS Office has special features that are now essential and integrated into office businesses. But personally I've been using Libre Office even on Windows already. But then again, I'm the average home user.
I mean, any time I use one of the browser versions of the office apps, if what I need takes any longer than a few minutes I always switch to the desktop app because the browser apps are frustratingly slow to use.
That said, I'm still switching to Linux because I use LibreOffice at home.
Not just switching the default; have a go at removing Edge entirely, its a huge PITA.
You've gotta manually take ownership of Edges files, including its updater service, force that service to close and delete it, then finally delete the files for Edge itself. If you do that out of order, or you install certain system updates; it'll reinstall itself so you have to do it again.
From there some simple things like the news+weather taskbar widget and the start menu search will no longer open/function. (they ignore your default browser setting and forcibly use Edge)
Wow, that's annoying. I'm gonna hold off for windows 12 when the European union forces Microsoft to not be such an asshole.
What's so annoying about this? For me it would be moving a few extensions that I use, and logging into a few sites. The whole process is 15 minutes tops, and an occasional tweaking afterwards.