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[–] 82 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Windows five minutes after installing a web browser: "Welcome to Edge! We've imported your tabs from Chrome for you."

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    I don't get it. What's this supposed to tell me?

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  • [–] [S] 88 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    it's a parody of the memes where it's typing commands for 20 minutes to install a web browser

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I mean you can still get that experience on Ubuntu if you want to install Firefox as an apt package instead of being forced to install it as a snap package.

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Both are official and work well so there isn't really a need for it. But some people just want to make their experience harder because snap bad.

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  • I understand that. I actually used the snap one for a long time but then was having issues with it crashing a lot and switched over. I doubt most have the same issues I was having.

    I was just pointing out that if you want to make it difficult for yourself, you can haha.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    Too many screens and clicks. Where's my single-click browser install? Linux will never become mainstream on the desktop.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    no, it should just know what browser I want. it should read my minds or whatever. do you expect me to take those 5 whole clicks?

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)
    sudo pacman -Syu librewolf-bin
    
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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Why would anyone install a proprietary freeware browser?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    It's a very usable browser and vivaldi explicitly do no AI, unlike firefox. I get that firefox is the only serious cross platform competitor to chromium, but mozilla really does consistently shoot itself in the foot. it's like they're masochistic.

    edit: vivaldi also actually seems to have a vision and design goals, which firefox sort of lacks.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How did moz shoot themselves in the foot? I am genuinely asking as I missed any controversy.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Firefox has been slowly ramping up AI integration and data collection/telemetry. Fortunately theres many forks that rip all that out. Librewolf and ironfox are good examples.

    The truth is Mozilla is not profitable as a company and FF would have died a long time ago if Google didn't pay up to keep them alive to help avoid monopoly busting suits. In a worse timeline we don't even have modern FF to fork from or ublock in 2025.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [+] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    LibreWolf is my response.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Use gnome-software and install flatpaks or official apt packages instead of the snap store

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Genuine question; what is it about them that appeals to you? I used them for a while as a few things on kubuntu defaulted to snap but after a while I kept running into different issues that don't occur on the flathub/deb counterparts so I've cut them out for the most part.

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I like Ubuntu and related technologies around it so when I wanted to learn Linux packaging I went for snap. It turned out to be not as hard as I thought, and from my experience they run just fine. And are capable of packaging more types of apps than flatpak.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I think their update model is actually great. People are super hesitant to have apps auto update but its important to push out security updates quickly to minimise damage. It can be easily disabled if you insist on manually updating.

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  • F this
    I would rather use edge to install chrome

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