I don’t see anyone falling for this either, if they were going to they would already have edge installed.

  • owen@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    9 months ago

    I’ve been rolling out linux mint to some older family members. Firefox gave them troubles (they couldn’t identify the logo), but switching in chrome did the trick. I’m now convinced that the most common OS use-case is a browser launcher.

    • EddoWagt@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Indeed it is, browsers are very complex pieces of software as well, they’re almost like their own operating system

      • owen@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        For sure. And increasingly so. I used to think chromebooks were silly but after this experience I totally see their value: 0->WWW as fast as possible is what people want

      • owen@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

        Exactly! However, in my situation, I was helping them out with some old hardware. I had to help so many times with Windows that I took a risk and offered to “update their PC”. The “update” failed because chrome was gone - but I “changed some settings” and now chrome “came back to the computer” and now it’s smooth sailing 🤣🤣🤣