This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
I don't see anyone falling for this either, if they were going to they would already have edge installed.
Is this the choice pop-up they are now legally required to buy new EU laws? There's also a "remember" toggle. Isn't this a positive thing to exist?
Absolutely. But MS chose to go the evil route again and ask right when you want to open a link. In that situation users want to open a link and not choose browsers so they are more likely to click on edge. It is deliberately annoying which is what op is angry about
Plenty of people will fall for that, my mother rarely uses her laptop, so I installed Firefox for her. She got a notification telling her to switch to Edge, so she did. At least she told me so I could switch it back
People are social beings. They trust people recommending stuff. Its so bad that you need to tell people "well dont believe a thing big tech tells you"
This is why I'm figuring out dual booting with Linux today.. use windows in case I have too...
Be careful about your grub
Btw is there a "how to reinstall grub" guide? I have no idea how to do that.
Its a standalone part of the system so it could just be written to the correct partition.