Zorin OS 17.3 replaced the default Browser from Firefox(Old) to Brave(New).
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...Except there are three players in that game already. Go by the names of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu
wrote 7 days ago last edited byWe see SUSE and REL at corps and enterprises, not so much Ubuntu. None offer something like GRID though. Central management tool for Admins to deploy all systems equally from central location, with dashboard view, without having to run scripts or autoYAST to keep systems the same
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It has to be the default tho, bc the whole point of Librewolf is that it's trying to by default be untraceable and private.
It's very easy to disable that and re-enable cookies and the like, but your default experience will fundamentally be private, which is its goal
wrote 7 days ago last edited byThat's not the only point though. IIRC, they also remove telemetry, and pocket as well as some other things. I personally turn back on persistent sessions and history, but leave all the other privacy features there.
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Blech. I'd downvote this because I disagree with their decision, but I'm glad you brought this to our attention.
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How is brave the lesser of those two evils?
wrote 7 days ago last edited byIt isn't.
Brave sucks Google balls.
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I hope to see more distros do this. Strongly considering buying a Pro license just to support them for doing the right thing. Screw Mozilla.
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What's wrong with Brave?
- Based on Chromium so good web support
- Decent privacy
- Built-in adblock
- Easy to customize
- Open Source
It's the browser I've chosen to use after getting fed up w/ Gecko's terrible web compatibility these days (coming from Librewolf).
What's wrong with it? How is it evil?
wrote 7 days ago last edited byWhat's wrong is that we're on the Fediverse and many here write off Brave because the founder is "homophobic" because he's a conservative Christian. Sure, they make up all sorts of shallow justifications like "it's a crypto scam" but it definitely boils down to the "homophobic" whining.
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I hope to see more distros do this. Strongly considering buying a Pro license just to support them for doing the right thing. Screw Mozilla.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byI dunno that I’d consider Brave to be “the right thing” but more variety/competition is best!
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I have ff installed but uses librewolf for most uses. Should I be worried if ff is in my system? Somebody please explain.
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I have ff installed but uses librewolf for most uses. Should I be worried if ff is in my system? Somebody please explain.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byI think we're pretty far from that being a problem
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I feel like if they were gonna go chromium, they should have gone with Vivaldi. It may not be open source but it's not doing a crypto scam. Waterfox would have also been a good choice, probably better because it's Gecko.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byI don't know the details, but I hope they will at least remove the VPN and crypto wallet integrations from the default installed version.
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The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byWhy are you guys so obsessed with the latest packages? A lot of new stuff doesn't work on older PCs which is also Linux's target market.
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I'm actually not familiar with this distro. But if I installed a Linux distro, and it have brave installed. I would immediately switch.
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Why are you guys so obsessed with the latest packages? A lot of new stuff doesn't work on older PCs which is also Linux's target market.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byNot all of us use older PC's. I really don't care what other people use but I like being on the latest version of whatever software I'm using. Also, I used endeavourOS on a Thinkpad T-420 and didn't have any issues with running the latest software on that laptop from 2012. I'm not saying you haven't had issues but it isn't exactly black or white. Older PC's are not Linux's target market. Everything is Linux's target market. Linux will run on everything from a Pentium II laptop to a $50,000,000 super computer.
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As a Librewolf user I wouldn't make it default for casual users this kind of distro is aiming for. Sure enabling logins to use it as a main browser is piss easy, but that's still more work than the average person wants to put into setting up their system.
Waterfox would be the better choice since it's just default Firefox in every way besides Mozilla's spyware.
wrote 7 days ago last edited bythere’s Zen also. that also has normie defaults, however the drastically changed UI/Uxmight not be for everyone.
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Firefox is bad, Brave is evil. Why did they decide switching is a good idea?
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Not all of us use older PC's. I really don't care what other people use but I like being on the latest version of whatever software I'm using. Also, I used endeavourOS on a Thinkpad T-420 and didn't have any issues with running the latest software on that laptop from 2012. I'm not saying you haven't had issues but it isn't exactly black or white. Older PC's are not Linux's target market. Everything is Linux's target market. Linux will run on everything from a Pentium II laptop to a $50,000,000 super computer.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byNot all of us use older PC's. I really don't care what other people use but I like being on the latest version of whatever software I'm using
I stopped reading about here. I can tell its just a ramble about how the world should appeal to you and you only.
Kind regards.
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Well, Brave is -regardless of the companies decisions- still a damn good browser with many build in essentials (TOR, IPFS, Bittorrent...), so, while I PERSONALLY don't use this anymore (currently I use an heavily patched suckless surf and Dillo) I don't see much wrong in including this in a distribution especially catering to users switching from windows.
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That's gonna be a no from me, dawg
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You could replace "Brave Browser" with Firefox and the statement would still be true.
At least Firefox wasn't caught hijacking affiliate links.
wrote 7 days ago last edited byIs privacyguides wrong?
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“Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"