Mistral sucks. Vivaldi is Chromium. Linux has terrible user experience.
it has a great UX, it’s just picky about who its users are
It’s awesome for software devs, sys admins, tinkerers. But that’s it. Most distros still have too many issues for me to recommend it to every Windows user.
No, Linux is also great for tech illiterate people who just need a browser and e-mail. It’s only hard for people who think they know computers but really only know some Windows
I agree with that for daily tasks it’s great and easy. It works until you try to connect an exotic device in the game or just use a external device most of the time you will have to do it manually or it will just doesn’t work.
On the gripping hand, if you’re trying to connect an older external device, you’re more likely to get it working eventually under Linux (which usually keeps device drivers until they bit-rot out of the kernel tree) than Windows (whose drivers are version-specific and only get ported forward if the manufacturer thinks there’s money in it). Six of one, half-a-dozen of the other, as far as I’m concerned, and device setup is a thing you should only have to do rarely anyway.
The peripherals were mostly dead before it reach the end of support in windows. It’s just plug and play for thousands of periphericals (gaming, music, etc…).
The peripherals were mostly dead before it reach the end of support in windows.
Not my experience at all—I have stuff 20+ years old that’s still in working order. Maybe you’re particularly hard on your peripherals.
Okay, so go on… instead of only listing negatives, what are the alternatives to each of these that you use?
Librewolf is already listed. There are unfortunately no good alternatives to Windows and ChatGPT or Gemini.
Librewolf is just some customized FF variation, so it’s from USA at the core. Same as Vivaldi, of course.
Is using a fork of something really an actual solution? It’s still enabling the dominance of the original corporation.
I dunno, maybe it is, but it sure doesn’t seem like it to me
You mean Vivaldi?
In specific for this, yes. But also in general
Also librewolf
Yup.
Don’t get me wrong, I really only use forks at this point, but that’s all they are, nor distinct browsers of their own
