Log a bug if you want to see it fixed.
Log a bug if you want to see it fixed.
Why on Earth are these nonsense blog rants constantly upvoted here?
It is essentially an unlettered rant that conflates the author’s UI and toolkit preferences with an objective view.
It doesn’t even provide a useful comparison to the evolution of QT to provide for a meaningful reference of its implied assertion that the evolution of GTK is too rapid for devs.
It is much more difficult than that imo.
Many of the Chromium forks have small teams, sigificantly smaller and with little actual in-engine experience compared to Firefox for example.
These teams need to have sufficient resources to maintain a reasonably significant fork of a standard, which will likely get harder over time, and which none of them presently deal with, as they ride the standards implemented by Chromium so far.
Additionally they would have to maintain their own extension stores, which many presently don’t.
Sorry not sure.
I’m sure it could be replicated with a theme and Extensions, but this might take some time.
I would definitely recommend installing it in a VM or liveUSB and trying it out. It won me over, when I thought it would just be another themed distro.
It really is quite useful for a certain user.
It has a really great selection of polished layouts OOTB that can make GNOME look very familiar to whatever the user is used to.
Also has some other great tweaks around WINE for beginners, and a more easily accessible Nvidia option in install media.
I don’t use it myself, but I would suggest it is ideal for someone who is a basic computer user who wants to mostly web browse and use home office tools. It really is ultra-polished.
Yes this could mostly be replicated with extensions and themes, but honestly, unless you have strong feelings about your OS, which most people don’t, it is not worth messing about with this (particularly when installing for others) when Zorin is available; it can be a headache to have to maintain such comprehensive layout changes through extensions and themes without breakage throughout upgrades. It also has the benefits of being based on the very actively developed GNOME, compared to something with a smaller team like Cinnamon, namely much better Wayland support, and in my view more polish.
It’s an Ubuntu-derivative using Gnome, but with a large number of tweaks to make it very user friendly out of the box. They have a variety of pre-made layouts in a beautiful theme that can pretty well replicate Windows 7, 10, 11 and Mac layouts among others, as well as a clear option to include Nvidia drivers OOTB in install media, and a better WINE experience for example.
It supports wayland just fine.
In my view it has all the benefits of Mint without many of the drawbacks stemming from its custom DE.
I personally don’t use it, preferring Gentoo or Fedora, but I think it is a very good choice for beginners or those people who only use a computer for web browsing and home office use.
Also limiting rule updates to new extension versions will essentially make it impossible for adblockers to outpace anti-adblock interventions.
A lot of people don’t realise that tampermonkey isn’t libre in my experience.
Why do you expect that Edge wouldn’t adopt Google-like MV3 along with Chrome?
Microsoft adopted Chromium in order to minimise development costs in a product it doesn’t see as core, something which would be incurred if it had to maintain its own fork of mv3, and is incentivized through Bing to pursue a similar approach.
iOS is already very similar to what Google is trying to implement here, although extension rulesets in iOS can be updated out of band.
iOS 17 has a documented limit of 150k rules, half of what is often required for a comprehensive content blocker, and presently has a “bug” that limits is to 30k to 40k rules at most.
Developer edition is essentially Firefox beta, with some tweaks that developers may prefer by default, and some experimental dev features.
As I understand it, it aligns with beta, but is an early beta, meaning that while it shares its codebase, it may get access to some feature rollouts (that are gated by edition) slightly earlier than true Firefox Beta.
It is opensource. The only thing that aren’t are some required Google Play libraries for notifications and the EME - Firefox can’t make those open as it doesn’t control them.
Yeah, I’m aware. My fault for not specifying I was talking about stable.
Unless I am misunderstanding you, it is, on Dec 14.
Extensions just have to specify they are compatible.
Definitely, along with the specs of your phone.
Fedora is on a six monthly cycle just like non-LTS Ubuntu; neither distro is on a yearly release cycle. The previous release is just supported for an extra six months, for one year of support per release for Fedora.
Fedora itself isn’t rolling but the kernel and mesa packages do roll between releases, and it is more bleeding edge than Ubuntu generally.
Manjaro has too many issues that are well documented with instability and security for new users.
Nothing. OP is being an idealogue that is doing a disservice to new users.
Snap can be undesirable for some, but honestly Ubuntu works very well for beginners and arguably has a more intuitive gnome interface by default.
This is a point release, what do you expect?