Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC
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He invented JavaScript, so definitely don't use that either. For real. JavaScript sucks.
Ah, you beat me to it.
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and every distro had flatpak enabled in the package manager out of the box
Me fail reading.
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Me fail reading.
Me forgive. Reading hard.
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Interestingly, the percent of Windows goes down if you look at just the United States, where it's only 63% of OSes. And it also goes down similarly when you set it to the UK, or North America, or almost any other region. But it goes up to around 73% when you limit it to Europe or Asia. Weird, why is it higher in those areas?
(Click "edit chart" to pick a different region)
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/united-states-of-america/#monthly-202406-202506
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Switching to Linux made me like computers again. Switching to Hyprland made me love computers again.
Same story here! Im in love with computing all over again because of it. Too bad many are tricked into thinking Microsoft ia the only option.
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Sadly, quite a few things. Here's a few:
- Application support; some popular software is built with Windows in mind.
- One-click installers; Software usually comes with user-friendly installation wizards. No command lines or dependency juggling. Also better compatibility woth past versions
- Driver availability; Linux is getting better, but Windows is superior
- Better peripheral support like for printers, webcams, game controllers.
- Gaming performance; although Linux is gaining ground, Windows is just better in this regard
- Media codecs and formats; again, Linux is getting better, but this isn't always an out-of-the-box experience
- Business integration; Windows plays nicely with enterprise tools like Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and legacy business apps.
Don't get me wrong. I use Linux as my daily driver. That also means I get frustrated on occasion when again I must consult man pages instead of just running a troubleshooter or fiddling with Nvidia drivers instead of just running the game.
Gaming performance; although Linux is gaining ground, Windows is just better in this regard
I mostly agree with you but this contradicts everything I've seen. Presumably you have evidence of this?
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Delete only the boot partition? Doug kick him off the tour!
You gotta have your old files! But man does NTFS suck ass
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Brave 🤮
Windows 🤮
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Brave's CEO is a homophobic Trump supporter. No thanks.
What does that have to do with the browser? Last I checked, browsers aren't transphobic.
You do you, but I personally refuse to make product choices based on the person who makes it. Brave is the least bad chromium browser, so I use it as a backup to my main Gecko-based browser. I'm not a fan of Mozilla either, but that's irrelevant since I pick my software based on what it does, not based on the management of the company that builds it.
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Also, their whole business model was (is?) just replacing ads with ads they get paid for.
Sure, but that's opt-in. By default, it just blocks ads.
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The sad thing is that you now have to protect yourself against the OS you are using. Feels a bit like in the movie TRON.
I don't, my OS doesn't come with any nonsense.
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Windows 🤮
"feature" 🤮
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Any workplace with halfway decent IT will disable it by default.
Which may be about 50% of workplaces, but still.
As much as I wish your estimates were true, you have no numbers to back you up. They seem wildly optimistic.
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What does that have to do with the browser? Last I checked, browsers aren't transphobic.
You do you, but I personally refuse to make product choices based on the person who makes it. Brave is the least bad chromium browser, so I use it as a backup to my main Gecko-based browser. I'm not a fan of Mozilla either, but that's irrelevant since I pick my software based on what it does, not based on the management of the company that builds it.
I would not choose to use a product made by people I disagree with but leaving that aside:
Is it the least bad? Why not degoogled chrome? Or chromium? Even vivaldi seems like a better choice.
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I'm probably going to have to move to 11 at some point (Linux isn't for me right now), but I would like to be able to disable as much bloatware as possible. Vigilance it is then.
I’m in a similar boat, windows for work, linux for personal.
But since I’m freelance, it’s annoying juggling 2 computers. Just waiting for a single app to either work in wine or get a Linux port.
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I would not choose to use a product made by people I disagree with but leaving that aside:
Is it the least bad? Why not degoogled chrome? Or chromium? Even vivaldi seems like a better choice.
Ad blocking mostly. That's literally all I need in a chromium browser, because I only use it on a handful of sites that don't work properly in Firefox.
Chromium is also okay, but no ad blocker. I have that installed as well in the really unlikely case that the ad blocker gets in the way.
99% of my browsing is on a Firefox browser, and 99% of the rest is on Brave. I use it so infrequently the "time saved" metric is a merely seconds.
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Mac hardware is a fucking atrocity. $2k for a "pro" laptop with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage and no i/o except 4 USBC ports, that's completely and intentionally irreparable and unupgradeable? SSDs and RAM that are marked up 3000%? That's what you call "excellent"? If they were cheap I might not completely object to them being disposable but it's the opposite. It's fucking gaslighting. You'll never convince me it's anything other than a cult.
I will give you the RAM and SSD capacities are atrociously priced. USBC is perfectly acceptable for the people apple is targeting. Nobody is trying to use a MacBook as a server. Ignore the “pro” name in any consumer electronic device. It has nothing to do with anything other than marketing, and that’s not exclusive to apple. Apple did give up on the 8GB bullshit already though.
You need to take a closer look at how the M-series chips work and why they work they way they do. There are design considerations in how PC does things and Apple does things and they are not 1 to 1. What makes sense the PC world doesn’t always make sense int he Mac world.
Apple does a lot of anti-consumer bullshit which we should absolutely club them over the head for, but many of the things they pulled off with the M-series Macs were NOT possible with traditional PC methodologies. One thing’s for sure though, the hardware performs and it does so with very little energy. It’s so great a difference the entire industry is changing course to try to outdo Apple. They eventually will too, but they haven’t yet. They are just cheaper.
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The situation is much different for gamers. They might have been thinking of the Steam survey where Windows does in fact have 95% adoption:
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What does that have to do with the browser? Last I checked, browsers aren't transphobic.
You do you, but I personally refuse to make product choices based on the person who makes it. Brave is the least bad chromium browser, so I use it as a backup to my main Gecko-based browser. I'm not a fan of Mozilla either, but that's irrelevant since I pick my software based on what it does, not based on the management of the company that builds it.
Actually, I consider Brave the best (or the least bed...) browser on the market. Period. The fact that it isn't made by Mozilla is a plus for me.
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He invented JavaScript, so definitely don't use that either. For real. JavaScript sucks.
Does he run/have power over JavaScript right now?
