Programming is the biggest skill you can learn, as it helps with automation and separates you from install clickers. You don’t have to be advanced, just the basics helps troubleshooting when you understand how software flows from the inside.

For a while when you installed Windows, the first time user setup gave you a choice of popular browsers and it handled the download and install.

Now Microsoft is actively trying to sabotage other browsers with popups and office apps bypassing the default browser setting.