Exactly. Yes, I know they claim it’s just the UI, and the sole purpose of closed-source code is to make it harder to steal innovative UI elements - but when it comes to something as sensitive as the browser, I’d like for these claims to be verifiable.

Vivaldi is in big part closed source, so we literally don’t know what it does behind the scenes

I haven’t in years anyway

Exactly why they can pull off anything like that. People who still stay with Chrome are mostly those who’ll eat it up anyway.

One of the popular launchers for Android, apps that change the look and feel of various menus (mainly main screen/app drawer) to fit your needs.

Nice!

I see!

For now, my least problematic picks were Fedora and OpenSUSE, most problematic - Debian, Mint and to some extent Arch. I do recognize it’s anecdotal, though.

You’re quick to assume it’s my downvote. It’s not, I barely touch this button and find it counter-productive. It often makes sense to disregard it in a conversation.

I didn’t install Debian 13, but I did work extensively with Debian 12 on several machines, and issues did arise: broken wallpaper, borked battery indicator and non-operational app store to name a few.

To each their own

Overall, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed has all you need to practice in a safe environment and learn all the things you do with Arch. It just doesn’t force you to do it when all you want is open a document :D

Loops.

However, of a dozen instances that exist, only the main one - loops.video - functions well and serves a diversity of content. It’s still in heavy development, but technically, ActivityPub is already included.

Quiet majority of Linux users when someone starts with Arch:

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Flatpak is a godsend when you don’t want to manage a mess.

Try OpenSUSE Tumbleweed

It’s practically Arch minus elitist culture minus breaking all the time minus having to manually manage anything and everything. Also, it has properly set snapshots by default, so almost any screw-up can be reversed.

Expects user to solve many issues manually, and as such requires some Linux experience.

Also, showing newbies the latest and greatest makes for a better presentation, and Linux develops so fast the 2-year cycle makes grand shifts.

Arch and derivatives always act weird on my system when the time comes to move files.

I never figured out the root cause, but after like two months of use when I move or download files, the system lags extremely bad and hogs all the RAM.

Works just fine on any other distros.

Also PeerTube

The community push, mainly. But there seemed to be a PR campaign to capitalize on it. I don’t know if there were official adverts.

There already are quite a few instances actually, but they’re all trash tier for now, except for the dev-operated loops.video

They follow what is advertised. Fediverse, by its nature, doesn’t have money for this. There was a push for Mastodon, though.

This is mostly shared as an arrogant statement towards laymen, but really, it’s a reminder for scientists themselves

No matter what you think or believe your experiment should yield, reality check is always waiting around the corner.

Nice, when seen in this light!