There’s also the security concern. A workplace should not have an employee run work software on a machine that isn’t bound by group policy.

LMDE is missing various useful programs, such as the GNOME disk utility. Just stick with stock Mint if you’re going Mint.

I’ve been running CachyOS and they have some gaming packages, but I forgot to install them and haven’t run into any issues just installing Steam.

KolourPaint.

Seems like a magnificent vector for malware.

Just finished (with great difficulty) applying a beige-red colour scheme to my KDE Plasma.

I could live with an ultra-thin Windows 98 style taskbar (if I actually cared to buy a new PC so I could use Windows 11). Yet even that’s not an option IIRC.

I understand Mullvad as a middle-ground between the anonymity of Tor and the convenience of Firefox. I’m not entirely convinced either way as to whether it is compatible.

I’d use Mullvad if it allowed my to install certain extensions and sync my bookmarks.

Using Librewolf deprives Firefox of sponsor money, so it’s to some extent a boycott. The idea though that we need to switch to a new browser engine because we lost faith in Mozilla is a bit silly, the Gecko engine is open source so it can be stuck with even if Mozilla goes away. Just look at Pale Moon (not great security-wise, but it does exist).

Ultimately any realistic Firefox fork needs to at least halve the size of the codebase so that it’s maintainable. Or move the unmaintainable code into a “use at your own risk, only on trusted sites” box.

I mostly use Firefox because it lets you bookmark a page without overwriting an existing bookmark. I have a lot of bookmarks and they sometimes need to be in multiple folders, but Blink-based browsers only let you create duplicates by manually copying a bookmark and pasting it elsewhere.

I’m finding certain security features being lacking from Firefox to be annoying. I should be able to set JIT javascript compiliation and DRM to be opt-in on a per-site basis considering the security risks in those codebases, especially considering the weaker security of the Gecko engine.

I’m also concerned about the prospect of the only browser engine besides Webkit being Blink, but if that were my only issue I could spoof my user agent.

I’ve used COSMIC on CachyOS for gaming. I don’t remember what issues I ran into but I didn’t stick with it.

I don’t think a Mozilla VPN nor Monitor could get Firefox income. When it comes to VPN’s I’m more trusting of a VPN-first company, and Monitor is something I’ve never even heard of.

Don’t know how blocking adblockers would get Mozilla more money.

The more you pay for a CEO, the worse said CEO is.

1. You can’t be trusted with keeping your desktop secure (because Linux sure as hell won’t do that for you).
2. You need software that can’t run on Linux even via compatibility tools (Multiplayer AAA games don’t count).
3. You have access to extended security updates for Windows 10.

Just stare at your phone instead like a normal person.

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Advertisements are a thing where you can turn them off and basically suffer none of the negative externalities (escaping the tracking is a LOT harder). There’s no real reason to form a movement over a basically solved issue.

It was never that Chinese stuff was bad, it’s that American companies outsourced their bad things to China.