In light of Mozilla’s recent policy changes, we no longer feel assured that Firefox aligns with our commitment to protect your privacy. This prompted us to revisit the choice of default web browser in Zorin OS 17.3.
Brave marketing has gone crazy to convince people it’s less dodgy than Firefox. Come on!
Yeah. Viral marketing is real but people never seem to be able to identify it.
Every time someone says anything positive about Brave I assume they’re part of the Crypto scheme, or love Brave’s CEO.
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.
Yes I can’t get through the day without IPFS, good take
I’m actually not familiar with this distro. But if I installed a Linux distro, and it have brave installed. I would immediately switch.
Brave is a fairly recent outlier, and while it isn’t quite proprietary, it stinks a fair bit of something capitalist/crypto.
The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.
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.
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.
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
I stopped reading about here. I can already tell the rest is a “me, me, me!” ramble about how the world should appeal to you and you only.
Just don’t use Zorin, you’re not their target market.
Kind regards.
If you actually read it you’d know that wasn’t true. My point was Linux is very scalable and what works for me might not be what works for you and vice verca. Use whatever you want, I don’t care. You can use fucking Windows for all I care.
It is marketed as direct windows replacement, so it appears they choose absolute safety, over possible breakage. If that GRID product they tout ever launches it will be great for companies.
…Except there are three players in that game already. Go by the names of Red Hat, SUSE and Ubuntu
We 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
Ubuntu is deployed all over the place for data science.
I’m fairly sure this is because data scientists got used to running it on their personal machines and can’t be bothered to learn another distro.
Ubuntu made Linux easily accessible to anyone, so you are probably right.
For the enterprise stuff we work with only REL and SUSE are certified to install on, and work with the software. OpenSUSE works too because of the shared binaries with SUSE
Why not fork firefox
I think maintaning a Firefox fork is pretty demanding especially considering you are already maintaining a distro. And there are already a lot of Firefox forks out there.
They should’ve picked LibreWolf which ships with uBlock Origin. Brave is a disappointing choice because it supports multi-level marketing pyramid schemes which says enough about their moral compass.
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✍︎ arscyni.cc: modernity ∝ nature.I kinda dislike the default LibreWolf settings. Unsure if they changed it, but I remember that you have no history except you change it in the settings.
A Windows refugee wants a history. Addituonally, many pages just dont work.
My University also does capture a picture and reads it from the Canvas or something, which LibreWolf blocks. It doesnt show again if something is okay or wrong. I just got a Mail that I need to reupload it and go by myself to pickup my University-Card.
I wasnt the only one as Informatics has many Linux users and some Librewolf users.
Boo
Wow, never recommending spring to anyone again. Switching from gecko to chromium is a dumb move.
“we replaced the browser with ad ware, that we even admit we had to ship settings to minimise its malware effect”
🤡
A bad move. But again i hate that many distros have a default browser and they don’t let you choose.
Maybe this was not supposed to have been posted until April fool’s day. Silly Zorin was too early for the joke.
That’s gonna be a no from me, dawg
talk about bad taste
Blech. I’d downvote this because I disagree with their decision, but I’m glad you brought this to our attention.
