Tried Vivaldi, the browser.
It seems like a super powerful browser with a fully customizable UI and integrated mail client, and calendar things. If I were a businessman or something, you get me, I would definitely like it because I don't need google calendar and Microsoft exchange and any other annoying things, I just need a powerful broswer.
But sadly I'm not that kind of person. I want a simple yet good enough browser where I can install the ad-blocker and call it a day. Frankly speaking, Chrome and Firefox give a pretty simple solution, which they don't offer too many options, but also not too few (I mean, safari).
Why it's so hard. I just want to browse the internet.
I would just stick with firefox for now and see what's gonna happen after mid-2023, when the manifest v2 is deprecated.
And yes, I don't change most of the default settings. So I use gnome and it looks prettier than KDE by default, although I see people configured their KDE looks much better.
About five years ago, I configured KDE and other things too. But it also locks me into my current setup, which, if they stop maintaining or make breaking changes (give my tray icons bar back, gnome), or the settings I relied on are removed, I will be doomed. (And I will never upgrade to windows 11 because I can't put the taskbar vertically on the left of my screen unless MS gives me a 16:10 monitor to compensate for the space usage).
Not yet. I'm still a Windows person becuase I use laptop, with Nvidia graphics card and a oversimplified bios from razer. Some linux distro just refused to boot.
@skyblond Yeah it's a pain to get it working, I went through a phase of my life testing different OS's out of boredom. MacOS was the hardest. I spent a whole month figuring out how it all works to get it to run great. After it ran perfectly, I uninstalled it because I know my computer runs Linux better anyway.🤣 I just wanted the challenge. Windows definitely has that game advantage though.
@skyblond have you tried ChromeOS? Not chromium OS, but full ChromeOS? It's pretty impressive when setup correctly.