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See also https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/floorp-going-closed-source/52783

Edit: They claim they will make that part open source too, eventually, and it is due to behavior of another browser: https://github.com/Floorp-Projects/Floorp-core/issues/62

Edit 2: They just open sourced the private repository 7 minutes ago, 2024-03-24T12:39Z

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I do agree the name is stupid, but I love the browser!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Bro, imagine putting "Floorp Developer" in your CV πŸ’€

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

No worse than all the tech startup names tbh.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This blog from the maintainer makes it clear they have no interest in open source other than to advertise their own skills

Preparing for a New Beginning for Floorp

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well that’s kind of a shitty thing to say about someone without backing it up with some specifics.

What specific passage from that blog post makes you think that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The purpose is to learn how to publish code that cannot be used for forking as open source.

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I have to obligate the folks to choose whether they want to pay me or help me code.

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....it was not beneficial to me.

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...new to gaining good visibility through open source,

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'll take "didn't get the point of FOSS" for $3.14.

What the heck.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Feels like what happened to Emby to me.

(hugs Jellyfin)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the edit and link to discussion, I am a FireDragon (Floorp fork) user and it seems like this issue is in hand and I'm not going to be concerned for the moment.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

What are some things you like about FireDragon that make you use it over others?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use Garuda Linux and FireDragon is maintained by the same people so it's been customised to have the same look. FireDragon was previously a fork of Librewolf (another fork of Firefox I have always liked), so I just switched over to FireDragon to try it out. I'd also used Floorp in the past and really liked that, so to have FireDragon and Floorp become one was really nice. FireDragon is nifty and has the privacy focus that LibreFox has. Garuda Linux is also a really nice distro and a lot of care and effort has gone into it - it also has a Plasma version for gamers... which is lovely for me. It's late and this is a dreadfully rambling answer... but hopefully you get the idea (roughly!) πŸ˜…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Does Plasma make games run better somehow? What makes the Plasma version of Garuda β€œfor gamers”?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The main thing is that Plasma 6 comes with some HDR support and it is possible to have it in some games now as well as in some apps like mpv that also have HDR support.

As for the Garuda Gamer version of the distro, it comes with a bunch of gaming stuff preinstalled and a Garuda Gamer app which makes it really easy to install gaming related apps, emulators, and hardware support for controllers, rgb, and all that kind of thing. It's just all handled very well and would make a nice distro to recommend to gamers who might want to make a switch to Linux from Windows, mainly because things are made so easy - which is nice for an Arch based distro because you have access to yay without it being overly complicated.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago

This sounds like immature project drama. I've seen it before where there's a large, professionally maintained product and people make forks to add small changes and then different forks start fighting with each other over because it's their features and they don't want other forks to incorporate them. You should probably just avoid Floorp if possible.

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