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    [–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Browsers are bloat.
    -- average Arch user

    [–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago
    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Not related to Arch, but behold Richard Stallmann describing how he uses the internet: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html (see section "How I use the internet" and the other section below that with the same title).

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year 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.

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Unironically Lynx and Elinks.

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Imagine not enjoying the internet via curl

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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

    BTW, I use lynx.

    [–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    OS ships with a browser.

    Boo!

    OS ships with a browser.

    Yay!

    [–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago

    It's not "shipping with a browser" that was ever the problem.

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    your OS ships with a browser.

    Boo!

    my OS ships with a browser.

    Yay!

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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

    One of those is a good browser.

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    [–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    But edge is chrome.

    As a former edge user. I now use Firefox.

    [–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Edge = Chrome + popup ads for Microsoft services

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It's what they do best, but it usually involves buying a company.

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    [–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    why do windows users install chrome?

    i don't get it, edge comes preinstalled on windows and it's chromium-based.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

    If you're gonna go though the trouble of installing a browser, why switch Microsoft for Google? They're both evil and Edge actually performs significantly better than Chrome somehow (they're basically the same I don't get it).

    Install freaking Firefox.

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Force of habit? Plus, if I used Windows, I wouldn't use Edge out of spite. Fuck their shady ways of pushing users to use it.

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    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Not anymore. Just open PowerShell

    winget install whateveryouwant

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser # Optional: Needed to run a remote script the first time
    
    irm get.scoop.sh | iex
    
    

    Microsoft doesn't need to even be involved

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    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    not even that

    winget install Mozilla.Firefox

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    winget install Google.Chrome

    Windows has a package manager like a big boy OS these days

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Microsoft offers to buy out AppGet and had its developer join them, but then ghost him once they realized the dev is also Sonarr dev.

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    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    unpopular opinion preinstalling any browser is wrong

    [–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

    Found the Arch user.

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

    i think it is very beneficial for the average user to have one of each common software category preinstalled

    as long as you can uninstall everything

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I think you mistyped "popular"

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That’s the lemmy echo chamber. Poll a hundred people on how to get a program onto a computer without a browser and I’d be surprised if five people answered something other than a disk or that it’s impossible

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    This meme makes no sense. Why would Windows want that?

    Surprisingly I dont get weird popups when installing Firefox

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

    It doesn't have to make sense as long as it bashes Windows.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    "It's already installed... as a Snap package."

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