• phorq@lemmy.ml
      59·
      10 months ago

      As an arch user, I’m confused… Doesn’t everyone use curl as their browser?

      • kpw@kbin.social
        28·
        10 months ago

        I recently switched to netcat, this lets me control the TCP stream more directly.

        • nixcamic@lemmy.world
          10·
          10 months ago

          In fact, what I use is Maté (an English way of writing the Spanish word Mate).

          As a Spanish speaker I’d just like to say

          A: wtf is this even supposed to mean?
          B: mate and maté are two entirely different words.
          C: The mate desktop environment is named after hierba mate, no é.

        • acockworkorange@mander.xyz
          3·
          10 months ago

          I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/womb/hacks.git) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it.

          Fuck. What the hell.

          I occasionally also browse unrelated sites using IceCat via Tor. Except for rare cases, I do not identify myself to them. I think that plus Tor plus LibreJS is enough to prevent my browsing from being associated with me. IceCat blocks tracking tags and most fingerprinting methods.

          Ironically I think this makes his the most unique fingerprint in the whole internet.

  • XEAL@lemm.ee
    36·
    10 months ago

    You install something that at the core is the same as you but with a better interface.

    It’s funny how Microsoft just gave up on creating a new web browser and instead just rebranded someone else’s homework.

      • lud@lemm.ee
        6·
        10 months ago

        Edge actually has a few nice features that chrome and Firefox miss.

        Like native horizontal tabs and tab groups (chrome might have groups)

        I still refuse to use it over Firefox though.

        • rambaroo@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          Chrome does have tab groups, but I don’t find them super useful. Automatic grouping by domain would be nice for my usage since I only use chrome at work.

        • Klaymore@sh.itjust.works
          1·
          10 months ago

          Firefox has the (officially recommended) Simple Tab Groups addon and a couple different addons for horizontal tabs.

  • Yerbouti@lemmy.ml
    241·
    10 months ago

    I’m amaze by how many people still use chrome based browser. They really want to get their face eat by a leopard. Well we told you people, there’s no reason left not to use firefox.

    • HappyToaster1911@lemmy.world
      62·
      10 months ago

      Chromium isn’t chrome, and there are reasons to use browsers not based on firefox, I like Vivaldi more than firefox way better customization and more features, but since Manifest V3 exists I am using firefox so I am already used to it if Google makes the other browsers shit

        • WereCat@lemmy.world
          3·
          10 months ago

          Workgroups, tab stacking, tab tiling, side by side view of multiple websites which you can interact with at the same time within one window, keyboard only control (if desired) and more.

          • nixcamic@lemmy.world
            31·
            10 months ago

            Most or all of those are available in extensions and keyboard only I think is in stock FF but I can understand not wanting to install a million extensions to recreate that functionality. I was a die hard old school Opera user but just can’t bring myself to daily drive a chromium based browser.

        • HW07@lemmy.world
          2·
          10 months ago

          I find that winget tends to just grab M$ Store packages, essentially becoming just an alternative CLI frontend.

          Chocolatey, however, actually grabs the native program. And it isn’t developed by Microsoft.

          Even Scoop is good enough, however programs might not work perfectly because it uses portable versions of the program.

        • HW07@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          But some apps don’t function properly if not installed. So I think that chocolatey is better.

    • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      10 months ago

      Fuck Winget. It’s a GUI-only person’s idea of what a CLI package manager should be. The only positive value I can think of is that it’s better than not having one at all.

      I manage about 500 Windows machines in a university. When teachers started complaining that they are unfamiliar with the paid version of an IDE, and we’d have to install the free community edition, I was delighted to learn that it was available through Winget. But privilege escalation on Windows is a fucking joke, so trying to install it remotely through Ansible/WinRM just popped the UAC anyway. I had to VNC into every single machine to click the fucking button. As an additional middle finger, winget.exe was not even in PATH when I tried WinRMing as the local admin.

      Winget is the absolute nadir of package managers, and it should be doused in acid, burned, chucked in the dumpster where it belongs, and forgotten. Choco and Scoop all the way.

    • puppy@lemmy.world
      111·
      10 months ago

      WinGet is an AppGet rip-off without even a mention of the original creator. I’m still salty about that.

      • auf@lemmy.ml
        2·
        10 months ago

        Either the community on GitHub, or someone inside Microsoft.

        You can find their repository here (I think most people here are not interested in it tho lol)

        I have packaged some software for winget back when I was still using Windows, and yes it runs msi ( or exe ) silently under the hood. Installation processes that are usually done on GUI are automated just like how Homebrew does.

    • slimarev92@lemmy.world
      42·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, but it’s mid at best. Many apps open a GUI installer even with winget. Also updates for many apps don’t work (if the app doesn’t save its version properly in the registry).

  • pedz@lemmy.ca
    3·
    10 months ago

    But then you use Debian and what’s preinstalled is Firefox ESR, so you have to install Firefox anyway.