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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Firefox looks so much better than Chrome (tux.social)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A little admiration of how easy UI customization is on Firefox, and how shitty Chromium looks.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Source: One person's opinion on their personal Fediverse account

... Not that I disagree, mind. I've been on FF since like. 2007? Which was the moment I figured out that other web browsers besides IE7 existed?

Never saw reason to hop to Chrome(ium) even before I knew/cared about datamining or enshittification or any of that stuff. Back then it just looked like "another browser, that does things a bit different but has no features that entice me that Firefox lacks". Then as I learned about the political side of things I was like "Huh, guess I'm glad for myself then!"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I used Netscape "back in the day". With some interim transition attempts including the likes of Opera, I eventually switched to Chrome because it was genuinely more featureful and faster.

I was a happy Chrome user until they decided to deprecate manifest V2 and fuck up my ad blocker, at which point I switched to Firefox and haven't looked back.

Everything in this industry is circular I guess.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I used Opera when it used Presto instead of becoming a yet another chromium. I miss that one.

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