I just got this popup while playing New vegas. I don’t even use chrome, i’ve switched to firefox. How can this be allowed? Also, this is Win10

  • RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.caEnglish
    153·
    1 year ago

    If governments actually gave a fuck about antitrust anymore, it would be. 20-ish years ago, they dragged Microsoft to court over simply bundling IE with Windows. It didn’t even constantly nag you to set as default; just the fact that it was bundled at all was enough to make it into the sights of regulators.

    • Tandybaum@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Dumb question but how would you get your browser of choice if they didn’t include one from the jump?

      • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
        8·
        1 year ago

        At the time, you’d get a disk from a store or order it from a magazine or whatever. I don’t really know what the solution would be now since those aren’t things though. I guess get one from a friend or another device?

        • SimplePhysics@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          If they didn’t bundle safari on a mac or firefox on linux, there are terminal commands to install firefox and chrome on both.

          There is a command for windows via their built in package manager apparently, but I can’t confirm that.

          • Klajan@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Yea, winget is the build in windows package manager.

            I started using that pretty frequently and a lot of software is on it, though it does lack some features like version pinning.

            There is a website to explore the available packages at winget.run, which makes it a bit easier to use.