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I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems (www.zdnet.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by tomenzgg@midwest.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] entwine@programming.dev 99 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I installed Opera and used it exclusively.

Why do people use Opera? It's a proprietary Chrome fork owned by a Chinese company.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

I love Vivaldi, which is like a spiritual improvement on Opera. I switched a few years back, and once you get used to the UI and the key shortcuts it's just such a breeze using the internet. Magnificently customizable, very nice little extras. ALAS! Because Vivaldi is based on Opera which is based on Chromium and Google came out and started blocking or restricting addons (the implementation of Manifest v3 blocks a lot of API block requests that ad blockers rely on), I went back to Firefox. Because fuck that.

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 35 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps for old time's sake. It used to be using its own engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(browser_engine)

[–] unexpected@forum.guncadindex.com 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yep. People have a bad habit of sticking to their habits beyond the point of usefulness. Myself included.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Chrome opera doesnt even resemble old opera. Vivadli is closer, and is led by the same guy that led old opera.

[–] jinwk00@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Unfortunately still closed source

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There was a lot of BS advertising not long ago about it being a web browser "for gamers", whatever that means.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 days ago

Gamers are easy to market to.

[–] sga@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

they still sponsors lots of youtubers and marketing now is on tab grouping (available on most browsers), theming (which is weaker than vivaldi, and maybe zen too) and ai (all browsers can open a web chat app). but they market to people who are using edge or chrome by default, and to them, it looks fancy.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 3 days ago

There is a good chance that this guy is a bit counter-cultural and does not want to use the obvious version of anything.

Look at the Windows mail client he tried to go with.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

i enjoy being spyed on by china. and before the whataboutisim, i dont mind that the US or Canada spies on me.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I like when they watch.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

ohhh my ;)

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can also be spied on by me if you'd like to.

Just send your search queries to me.

For extra espionage, I'll even make sure to use non-privacy respecting search engines (like Google, Yandex, Baidu) and AI for your queries.

[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Sounds good.