I basically agree with everyone, but with a couple additional remarks:

I really find the fonts choice odd: we really mean to have monospaced fonts *at 
least* in the editor. If somehow Haiku doesn't provide a sensible default for 
*monospace*, sure, use a specific one that makes sense there, but please keep 
it monospaced.

Otherwise, I think it depends on how *required* those settings are for the 
relevant options to work on Haiku or not. If for example Haiku ships with its 
own browser and using *firefox* will either virtually never work or feel out of 
place, sure.  If it's a preference, not so much.
So at a glance, I'd think that the default apps change make sense, but the 
fonts not so much.

@elextr's and @eht16's point of distros patching their favorite defaults make 
sense, but I see one main difference: we've got a preprocessor define to work 
with here, like we do for Windows and macos, whereas there's nothing similar 
for Debian/Fedora/Gentoo/Whatnot.  This makes integrating those changes 
realistic (they only affect Haiku), whereas the ones from Linux distros's 
preferences would be a lot harder to integrate -- and probably a lot more 
questionable, and we can't anyway have a special case for everyone out there.

So again, I don't really care either way.  I'm fine with having Haiku tweaks in 
even if we'd rely on actual users to contribute it (same as I'd be happy with 
*BSD tweaks if need be, or basically any other OS different enough to require 
it, virtually no matter the user base -- yet, don't make me say what I didn't, 
don't create a fresh OS just to add support here :wink:); just as I'm fine with 
these kind of defaults being left to the providers.

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