At least in LineageOS you can still replace the Internet button with a dedicated wifi or 5g one.

It was even better when you could differentiate between swiping the left or right half of the status bar down to go to settings or notifications. That might have been a cyanogenmod thing though.

That’s not something for the broadcasters to decide, unlike this

How would something so simple bug out? It wouldn’t be impossible I guess, but the chance that it isn’t Windows’ fault seem really slim

Obviously it’s not technically possible for a Microsoft program to open links in a different browser than their own. It’s really hard to code that sort of cross compatibility. At least when your company name is Microsoft.

I did the same thing until I switched to Geruda Linux a few weeks ago. Neat arch based distro that is optimized for gaming. When I bought a laptop I explicitly chose the DIY Framework laptop so I didn’t have to purchase Windows and have been running Fedora on that for years without issues.

Remember those horrible toolbars? Those were a problem on all browsers and reinstalled themselves automatically unless you fully purged them from your pc. I don’t think Chrome ever supported toolbars, that was actually a feature back then

I don’t know specific vulnarabilities but they either exist already or can be discovered at any moment without being patched. Not installing stuff yourself doesn’t make you safe, just less unsafe.