entwine comments on I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems

I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems (www.zdnet.com)

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[–] entwine@programming.dev 98 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I installed Opera and used it exclusively.

Why do people use Opera? It's a proprietary Chrome fork owned by a Chinese company.

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[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Perhaps for old time's sake. It used to be using its own engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(browser_engine)

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[–] unexpected@forum.guncadindex.com 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yep. People have a bad habit of sticking to their habits beyond the point of usefulness. Myself included.

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Chrome opera doesnt even resemble old opera. Vivadli is closer, and is led by the same guy that led old opera.

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[–] jinwk00@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately still closed source

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[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There was a lot of BS advertising not long ago about it being a web browser "for gamers", whatever that means.

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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

Gamers are easy to market to.

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[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

There is a good chance that this guy is a bit counter-cultural and does not want to use the obvious version of anything.

Look at the Windows mail client he tried to go with.

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[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

i enjoy being spyed on by china. and before the whataboutisim, i dont mind that the US or Canada spies on me.

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[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

You can also be spied on by me if you'd like to.

Just send your search queries to me.

For extra espionage, I'll even make sure to use non-privacy respecting search engines (like Google, Yandex, Baidu) and AI for your queries.

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[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Sounds good.

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[–] tomiant@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

I like when they watch.

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[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 point 1 year ago

ohhh my ;)

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[–] tomiant@programming.dev 1 point 1 year ago*

I love Vivaldi, which is like a spiritual improvement on Opera. I switched a few years back, and once you get used to the UI and the key shortcuts it's just such a breeze using the internet. Magnificently customizable, very nice little extras. ALAS! Because Vivaldi is based on Opera which is based on Chromium and Google came out and started blocking or restricting addons (the implementation of Manifest v3 blocks a lot of API block requests that ad blockers rely on), I went back to Firefox. Because fuck that.

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