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Pantherina, to linux in Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?

Its possible using homedir backup etc. Or on Fedora Atomic simply switching desktops. But yeah Desktops are all over the place, having a ~/.kde folder where EVERYTHING is stored would be great.

Pantherina, to linux in Clevo Laptop doesnt boot any Linux USB sticks? partitions not found, fstab errors and all?

The stick works and boots normally.

Pantherina, to linux in Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

Add a long readme, with a “yes I understand possible consequences”. If this is so well known, it could be easily integrated. I never used that stuff.

Pantherina, to linux in Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

Firefox Flatpak, RPM, and Windows have this entry. firefox -p is enough and works cross platform.

But it is no button so people dont think it exists. I heard tech people say “Chromes profiles are better than Firefox containers” as they literally didnt know this core feature.

Thunderbird has profiles too, Element web also. Both have no GUI at all.

Pantherina, to linux in Dumbest Thing you have done distro-hopping?

Installing GNOME on Kubuntu I think, hahaaha.

Pantherina, to linux in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

Did the windows before not have regular menu with all that? I think its an okay concept, even though I can imagine something like workspaces could make sense too.

Pantherina, to linux in GNOME Recognized as Public Interest Infrastructure

I prefer KDE currently, because

  • normal application tray and buttons for close, maximise and minimize
  • dolphin ! (But any capable filemanager with spacesaving UI, extensions, an editable location bar, drag/drop dialogs, selection mode, preview, pinned favourites, kfind integration,… would do)
  • spectacle
  • kate
  • systemsettings (keyboard shortcuts, theming, mouse speed, Graphic tablet, flatpak permissions, system info, …)

are all simply better than the GNOME counterpart. Also things like the clickboxes of decorations actually reaching to the top corner is something so obvious its crazy that GNOME simply ignores that and you need to directly point to the “x”.

I like that Gnome is untraditional though.

Pantherina, to linux in Imagine Linux on an Arm SoC that benchmark better than Apple's M2 Max!

Interesting, so you cant just use any Bootloader on Arm Linux? Like systemd-boot or grub2?

Pantherina, to linux in Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

Agree. But again, as this hardening is not accessible via GUI, it is mysterious as it is. With a switch similarly places like the brush in torbrowser or the shield in FF this could be easily dealt with.

More fancy would be whitelisting sites via gui.

No, Librewolf doesnt only limit data sent to mozilla, but its basically as hardened as Arkenfox/Torbrowser.

Pantherina, to linux in Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

I get you. But Firefox is not mass adopted, so you can assume its only the privacy concerned people. If you are about features, Firefox is good. But for the most part, and for people that dont care, Chrome is just as good, but with Webapps, using your phone as a 2FA key, flashing damn GrapheneOS through a browser, faster speed and supposedly a more secure sandbox.

Firefox relies on Google, but Google has no reason to support it anymore. So this funding will probably vanish soon.

Pantherina, to linux in Imagine Linux on an Arm SoC that benchmark better than Apple's M2 Max!

Could you explain how its more locked up?

Pantherina, to linux in Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

Okay I just saw firefox advertises nice Collections now! But their privacy selection is… veeery lacking. But its a start

Pantherina, to linux in Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

I did. But why should I need to? Firefox is the product, if nobody uses Firefox mozilla uses marketshare. Why do we need Librewolf, which really is the only Firefox you should use out of the box? The same with Mull for Android, where damn “Firefox Focus” is their privacy option which is pretty useless.

If Firefox is so bad you need to use Librewolf, Firefox as a product is useless for many people.

I now use Firefox again and harden it myself. But I dont expect ANYONE to do that, as its even a bit too inconvenient for me

Pantherina, to linux in Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

From this comment I suppose you never used Librewolf or Arkenfox. The Torbrowser is only a hassle because

  • it uses “private browsing” always, which completely hinders people from saving anything. This is not needed, as cache, session etc could simply be deleted via the settings.
  • it uses the Tor network, which is a huge thing. Cloudflare and all that BS block you 90% because of that. Its even worse than with VPN
  • The real difficulties just come when you use Noscript, or Ublock with hard settings. The hardened browser alone is unproblematic. But if you use Noscript, you dont want to not use it anymore. Sites are so bloated with third party javascript that is simply not needed.

Firefox on Default is not stopping much tracking. It should teach users how to be private. Also work of course, but really. Other browsers will scream out way more data, thats for sure. But Firefox has all these features but nobody knows them.

So, in the end there is no real usecase for Firefox. And people use any other “secure” Browser instead

Pantherina, to linux in Firefox needs a 180° turn to full privacy out of the box. - Feddit

This is the reason why people think privacy is hard. No, my mother should not need to find out how to set the correct settings.

A simple switch, GUI, to completely harden the browser, this would be the thing. about:preferences can be changed while running.

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