the_crab_man

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Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (27 children)

For casual users that only need a web browser, a mail client and an office suite, Linux is a great replacement for Windows.

In Germany, dozens of people are in 'preventive detention' because they might otherwise engage in climate protests in c/[email protected]
Why I dislike snaps in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How is Snap's sandbox better than Flatpak's?

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I wish KDE apps hardcoded their Breeze theme (lemmy.world)
 

I use both GNOME and Plasma and various apps from their ecosystems. When using Plasma, GNOME apps look out of place, as they hardcode their Adwaita theme, but they don't suffer from contrast issues and are perfectly usable. When using KDE apps on GNOME on the other hand, the contrast is terrible, the apps look very ugly and are barely usable to the point I wish they hardcoded their Breeze theme so they would work as well as they do on Plasma. I wish KDE apps were more resilient when it comes to theming, so they wouldn't break completely when installed on the "wrong" desktop.

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No web browser offers a good out of the box experience. (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I feel like there is no web browser with a sane default configuration that I can recommend to other people. All browsers are preconfigured in a way that harms the privacy of their users or include services that no one wants such as Pocket and BAT.

Here are my problems with some popular browsers.

  • Mozilla Firefox: Pocket integration, no ad-blocking without extensions.

  • Brave: Everything related to crypto. Also its start page is horrible.

  • Chromium: No ad-blocking without extensions and soon Manifest v3 will cripple all content blockers.

Now, these suboptimal defaults wouldn't be such a big problem if the configuration files were easy to backup and restore and respected the XDG base directory specification.

What fonts are the most common on Linux today? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I like Iosevka for programming and terminal.

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What developments in the Linux world are you looking forward to the most? (lemmy.world)
 

Personally, I'm looking forward to native Wayland support for Wine and KDE's port to Qt 6.

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Why do we need tiling window managers when we have tmux? (lemmy.world)
 

I used to use Sway and I found tiling to be useful only when using multiple terminals. Tmux allows me to have tiling functionalities for terminals while having a full desktop environment for all other applications.