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Google Chrome is (finally) coming to ARM64 Linux (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 51 points 7 months ago

"Google Chrome is finally coming to ARM64 Linux"...

... said no one ever

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    [–] 39 points 7 months ago

    Oh hell yeah! I've been dying to install a browser that doesn't support uBlock Origin.

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    [–] 15 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    This is all sorts of wrong

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 7 months ago (6 children)

    What is wrong? Publishing on ARM? I don't understand why this post received so many downvotes

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  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Because Google sucks.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    And because chrome is not FOSS.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    True, but not all Linux is FOSS, even though there is some significant overlap.

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    • [–] 15 points 7 months ago

    Chrome is dead

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    This is good even if you don't care about Chrome, because it means Widevine should become properly supported on the platform.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I had to look that up, it's the DRM system you need for most streaming services, like e.g. Netflix.
    Wikipedia page says though, that it is also integrated in Firefox?

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Yes, but it is a binary blob that Google makes and Firefox just integrates with. If it is not released for a specific platform, Firefox can't do anything about it. At least a while a go it was quite an adventure to try and get DRM working on ARM64 Linux: https://www.da.vidbuchanan.co.uk/blog/netflix-on-asahi.html

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    • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    So what? Most people are using Linux for the privacy benefits. Does privacy sound like a good reason to use Chrome?

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I'm honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux. Turns out many people actually use Linux for the user experience and flexibility, and not for privacy.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    I’m honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux.

    I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.

    So for now I've swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium's RAM usage stays sane.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I use Linux for work and our company requires chrome to view Google Docs and such

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Most people are using Linux for the privacy benefits

    citation needed

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    • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Duck that

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    [–] 3 points 7 months ago

    Embrace, Extend, Extinguish...

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