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I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems (www.zdnet.com)
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[-] entwine@programming.dev 100 points 11 months ago

I installed Opera and used it exclusively.

Why do people use Opera? It's a proprietary Chrome fork owned by a Chinese company.

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 35 points 11 months ago

Perhaps for old time's sake. It used to be using its own engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presto_(browser_engine)

[-] unexpected@forum.guncadindex.com 17 points 11 months ago

Yep. People have a bad habit of sticking to their habits beyond the point of usefulness. Myself included.

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago

Chrome opera doesnt even resemble old opera. Vivadli is closer, and is led by the same guy that led old opera.

[-] jinwk00@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Unfortunately still closed source

[-] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months ago

There was a lot of BS advertising not long ago about it being a web browser "for gamers", whatever that means.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 11 months ago

Gamers are easy to market to.

[-] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago

There is a good chance that this guy is a bit counter-cultural and does not want to use the obvious version of anything.

Look at the Windows mail client he tried to go with.

[-] tomiant@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I love Vivaldi, which is like a spiritual improvement on Opera. I switched a few years back, and once you get used to the UI and the key shortcuts it's just such a breeze using the internet. Magnificently customizable, very nice little extras. ALAS! Because Vivaldi is based on Opera which is based on Chromium and Google came out and started blocking or restricting addons (the implementation of Manifest v3 blocks a lot of API block requests that ad blockers rely on), I went back to Firefox. Because fuck that.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago

i enjoy being spyed on by china. and before the whataboutisim, i dont mind that the US or Canada spies on me.

[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago

You can also be spied on by me if you'd like to.

Just send your search queries to me.

For extra espionage, I'll even make sure to use non-privacy respecting search engines (like Google, Yandex, Baidu) and AI for your queries.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

Sounds good.

[-] tomiant@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

I like when they watch.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

ohhh my ;)

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