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Wouldn't changing the default search engine to "no default" be a solution too? I'm sure many people have thought about it, so, I wonder, what is the issue with

• judge2020 4y ago
  The year of the Linux desktop gets further away as people try to use their browser and go “why can’t I search” and drop it all together. A lot of people really don’t have the patience to configure their computers, they want it to ‘just work’.
  • gouggoug 4y ago
    Yea I guess. Though I'm having a hard time with the idea that someone who went through the trouble of running on Debian in the first place would have this reaction to the browser not automatically opening a search engine.
    • kube-system 4y ago
      Not everyone who uses Debian also was the same person who installed it. There are a few people (like me) who are crazy enough to give Linux desktop systems to real end users. Although I suppose I could just set their search engines for them, but that's just a pain.
• tinus_hn 4y ago
  For a solution to be required there first has to be a problem. Then it has to be shown the new solution is better than the current implementation. You’re not happy with the default which you can trivially change but no one has to change, so you propose having no default so you still have to change it but now everyone has to change it.