The pot calls the kettle black?!
Microsoft on its knees. I love it! Life is good!
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If you want an unbiased opinion about why Firefox can't perform 'heavy work,' you need to find this out for yourself, if you can't, you can get by with Firefox. My work load may not equal your work load so, if you are happy with Firefox, it's OK, nothing wrong with that.
I tried many Firefox, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi versions to replace Google Chrome but I always came back to Chrome because whoever designed Chrome, did good homework. If you need more proof that Chrome is better, Microsoft 'borrowed it,' too :).
I find it pitiful that the inability of Mozilla to beat Google Chrome resulted in their shameless blaming of everyone else but themselves.
It so happens that I just removed the Firefox browser from my computer 10 minutes before reading this article. Firefox, for me, is still buggy and unreliable, not ready for real heavy work. It so happens that Google Chrome doesn't have Firefox's annoying glitches. Shame on Mozilla for blaming the world for their mediocre product.
MX Linux is worth much more than just a look. I've used this distro for a few years now and found out that it's just as good - if not better and more functional - than Windows 11. After using Redhat, SUSE, Fedora, Manjaro, and the not-so-ready-for-prime-time Linux Mint, I think MX Linux should be the choice for Linux users. Ninety nine Linux distros listed below MX Linux, in my opinion, should be tossed in the garbage, but then, what will the Distrowatch maintainers do? :(
Car dealers are trying to maximize profits as a result. Many of these dealers - if you are not careful or if you are desperate to buy a car - will rip you off. In these hard times, if you pay the asking sticker price of the car, you are doing OK.
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/08/30/1119715886/inside-the-rise-of-stealerships-and-the-shady-economics-of-car-buying
"At least with Linux you can examine the source code..." Really? I'll bet my left nut that most Linux users are not capable of examining source code.
Remember, every OS, browser, Android, iPhone, are all built with spying on you in mind regardless of where they are made. Though, I would never ever trust a Chinese Linux even if I had the capability to examine its source code.
Mr. Eich, jealousy won't get you anywhere!
In my view, your browser, Brave (not!) - which I tried like probably everyone else here - is just as abysmal for a browser as the duck one. I suspect your jealousy because the duck may have more users? This is what it's all about, isn't it?
I use an Android and perfectly happy with Gmail, which works well and seamlessly with my Android, and iPhone before that. Why is Thunderbird necessary/needed? More clutter? Just like the browsers for Android, they all suck so why do need so many of them? They won't all fit where the sun don't shine.
"We have many excellent Linux desktop distros, which means none of them can gain enough market share to make any real dent in the overall market."
Exactly! The reason no one picks up coconuts in the streets of Miami is because there are tons of them laying in the streets, which diminishes their value so no one cares.
After using Redhat, SUSE, Manjaro, and Mint, I found that Mx Linux does everything better for me than the rest, so I am done with pointless installations of distros.
Distrowatch can, and should bring up Linux' value by ignoring the wannabees past the top three distros posted on its site.
I, too, use Linux over Windows. "Linux," as we know it, means three things if I remember correctly: deb, rpm, and Arch packages and - they are not compatible with each other.
If I was a developer, I wouldn't waste precious time developing for all three packages. As I finally found a Linux distro that I feel comfortable to work with, essential programs lacking support because the package I need is not available - because I am using the 'wrong' Linux distro.
To solve this annoying problem, Linux developers should pick and work on the best of the three existing Linux distributions otherwise, methinks that Linux will never grow to be anything worthwhile other that a meaningless number on Distrowatch.
In the U.S., it's a common practice of failed companies to change their name in times of failure and hope that business will keep running as usual. The problems with this, though, as I see it, if they decided to call "sh*t" a "rose," the "rose" will still smell like "sh*t," so why bother?
How about Bacefook? Zucfook? Zucwhimp? Zucwuss?
Whatever it ends up being, it will always smell like a rose.
Why is it a surprise suddenly that Facebook prioritizes profits over safety and well beings of its users? Wasn't this a known fact to all of us since its inception? For me it was. The sad and bleak future of all those who use Facebook to 'socialize,' will keep Facebook operating as if 'whistlers' are just attention seekers.
If you don't want the new Edge automatically installed, you need to download a file from Microsoft (it has a .cmd extension) and run it as administrator:
EdgeChromium_Blocker.cmd [<machine name optional>] [/B] [/U] [/H]
/B= block distribution
/U = unblock distribution
/H= Displays the following summary help:
This tool can be used to remotely block or unblock the delivery of
Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) through Automatic Updates.
It makes sense to me what BOSE stands for. I owned a BOSE speaker set in the past and was very disappointed with the sound output. Please note that BOSE never reveals the output frequency of their speakers. I can't understand why the REG calls BOSE products "Lexus." I am assuming it refers to the 2002 Lexus SC 430 which is rated 3rd worst car ever made:
https://www.thestreet.com/story/12927306/1/the-10-worst-cars-of-all-time.html
Instead of running Linux in Windows, Microsoft would be much better off if it dumped Windows completely - because Windows will never be better than Linux - and develop its own version of Linux. Only then, I'll give Microsoft a try. Windows 10 right now, is a complete drag.