My brother is 12 and just like other people of his age he can’t use a computer properly because he is only familiar with mobile devices and dumbed-down computers
I recently dual-booted Fedora KDE and Windows 10 on his laptop. Showed him Discovery and told him, “This is the app store. Everything you’ll ever need is here, and if you can’t find something just tell me and I’ll add it there”. I also set up bottles telling him “Your non-steam games are here”. He installed Steam and other apps himself
I guess he is a better Linux user than Linus Sebastian since he installed Steam without breaking his OS…
The tech support questions and stuff like “Can you install this for me?” or “Is this a virus?” dropped to zero. He only asks me things like “What was the name of PowerPoint for Linux” once in a while
After a week I have hardly ever seen my brother use Windows. He says Fedora is “like iOS” and he absolutely loved it
I use Arch and he keeps telling me “Why are you doing that nerdy terminal stuff just use Fedora”. He also keeps explaining to me why Fedora better than my “nerd OS”
This is great lol. When my friend tried Linux Mint he had to go into the terminal to install Brave, as they don’t just provide a .DEB like other browsers do. Maybe I should recommend Fedora to him as well.
Brave 🤮
i find the fall from grace amusing. i’ve been hating on them for years just because they’re a chrome derivative. now they do some telemetry and all of a sudden everyone hates them.
What’s wrong with it?
I use Vivaldi (and Firefox if a site doesn’t work in Vivaldi) which is part of that “other browsers” bracket so I’m good lol.
not open source and based on chrome
why not just use firefox for everything?
Because I need tab organisation to stop my arse from overflowing with tabs and getting overwhelmed, which Vivaldi does nicely with workspaces and Firefox can’t really do at all.
I looked it up and while Firefox has most of the tab features Vivaldi does (tab pinning, tab duplication, moving tabs, muting tabs) it doesn’t have tab stacking, which was novel to me
there are a couple firefox addons that more or less replicate this feature in different forms from some brief research
for example tree style tabs is a popular addon
i also found tab stack and simple tab groups although they do not look as streamlined as vivaldi
regardless, thanks for the info. i’m going to try out tree style tabs because it seems like a useful feature for me too that i hadn’t considered before
No prob! I did use Tree Style Tabs and that helped a bit but Vivaldi’s extra features and how streamlined it is just edge it out as better than Firefox + addons for me. There’s also tab workspaces for grouping tabs into screens, typically on what type of browsing you’re doing, and tab tiling which Firefox was able to do back in its XUL days but can’t do in Quantum. I think Firefox would be pretty neat with a power-user oriented fork to bring back some missing features.
My only issue with Vivaldi is, if a site is still providing insecure HTTP for whatever reason (7digital for some reason still provides purchase downloads this way) then Vivaldi silently fails. Firefox clearly warns the user, so that’s my reason for having Firefox on hand - for those stragglers.
You can find the flatpak version of Brave in the Mint software center. Many package maintainers don’t allocate space for multiple web browser forks because they take a very long time to compile and update frequently (or have nonfree components like Vivaldi) so flatpaks are your best option.
I knew Fedora had Flatpak baked in but didn’t know Linux Mint had it. I know they’ve got a hatred for Snaps, though lol. Thanks for the explanation!