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[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 month ago (30 children)

Librewolf, but I'd argue it's more of a Firefox/web debloater reason. No pocket, no VPN ads. I would have said that the only issue is that it is a pain to update, but they added a windows updater and software repos, so I would almost recommend it over stock firefox for normies.

And I use tor to search stuff that contains sensitive data like my location... Or when a website is blocked

[–] Cethin 77 points 1 month ago (11 children)

This is the argument I keep using for why people should use Linux more. The fact you have to run updater software for each piece of software is so stupid. It's a horrible solution to a poorly designed problem. On Linux I just tell my package manager to update everything and it takes care of it all. There's no need for the user to be handling all of that, and it also shouldn't have to update in starting the application because that's when the user wants to use it, not wait for an update.

(For reference: it's the same thing as on your phone where it tells you the number of things that need updated and you just tell it to update whenever you feel like it.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

That's a great point, but Linux Mint hasn't a repo for Librewolf in a long time, meaning it was only available through Flatpak. It's not a big issue, but it does break keepassxc, and is a pain considering the drama Debian got over it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Last time I distrohopped, this was actually one of my main benchmarks. If I couldn't install Librewolf in under a minute, I picked a different distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I hope your benchmark was on something else than a live usb /j

But now most distros only need to install through the package manager, or at worse add the repo

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