Like I want chrome with more spyware. If I wanted that, I would glue a camera to my balls and livestream them 24/7.
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They should've released this 5 years ago because now I don't want it. Zen browser is pretty frickin sweet. FOSS FTW!
Fuck Opera. Absolutely not. They can go right back out of Linux.
I wont be using it but something I want to say is that it's weird that it took this long. The normal version of Opera has been available on Linux for a very long time now, I don't know exactly how long but it's been at least since prior to May 15, 2001, from what I could find (I saw a claim that it was released for Linux in Dec 31,1997, but there's no proof). Ever since the release of Opera GX, there was a lot of discussion about when/if GX would be available for Linux and, from what I understand, a lot of the people who used Opera on Linux wanted GX. I just don't understand why it took them this long to release a Linux version.
bro 😭
I clicked on the post thinking "do we even care?" and this is the first comment I see
Yeah, I was using vivaldi before switching to Zen browser (a firefox fork with the sidebar as I like it.) The only thing I cared for was about that UI change.
Now you can choose to not use it instead of not being able to!
I do like choices. Especially easy ones.
i don't remember anyone asking for this
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I liked the real Opera, but you killed it. I don't want that new thing.
Have you tried Vivaldi? Co-founded by one of the Opera Software co-founders, so perhaps not a surprise that it feels a little bit like classic Opera. I liked it a lot, but I have since switched to Firefox because I want to support the non-Chromium options while they exist.
I have, and I have abandoned it for the same reasons as you.
thanks for saying this; i want to stay out of the chromium eco-sphere and didn't know if opera became another chromium clone like everything else has become.
I don't use it and don't plan on using it, but why would one really like to use it?
It has some neat features like a sidebar, built in adblocker and customization features. I also would never use it but I think it's a good sign that Linux is being taken serious as a platform
Isn't it Chromium based and thus subject to whatever Google forces them to do with adblocking?
I don't mean to kinkshame and people can use their own favourite browsers, but Firefox has good support for all three of those areas (adblocking is an extension though).
I would never use it as I said because of all the shit they did/do. However the google only blocked extension based adblockers not those on a browser level. These would be quite hard to block without closing down the chromium source code, which would also be hard as chromium is partially LGPL. The theming options in Opera GX are more accessible than userChrome.css with Firefox and they are more powerful than simply changing themes. The sidebar of the base Firefox has been really weak in my experience. Something like Zen+ubo however would be a more comparable (and better for that use case) option
Pretty sure Vivaldi has all of that. And they where on Linux from the start.
Yep. Vivaldi is the shit.
It spends money on advertising so people are convinced its good at something
Well, it is good at something. Spending money on advertising.
I can't imagine anyone wants this.
More Chromium. Yay.
great. we came one step closer to the great wall of china
Maybe now I can approach the issue of getting Gamemaker Studio working on my Linux machine again. They insist on using that stupid browser to license verify for reasons that seem completely arbitrary to me. I wasn’t able to get the searched for workarounds to work on my end due to this browser so I hit a wall.
Huh that does sound arbitrary
If a engine would force me to use a specific chrome based browser I would switch the engine...
That sounds like hell my friend.
It’s only to verify my license. Don’t need to use it otherwise unless I want to post the projects I make on their itch.io clone storefront, which I don’t. I have windows dual booted on its own harddrive so I’ve just been using it there. Would be nice to phase out windows on this use case without having to learn a new engine entirely.
I don't know your exact use case, but I suspect that learning Godot might be very worth it. It's a really intuitive engine.
I’ve heard good things about it. But I’ve also heard that vibe coders are trying to get a lot of slop code into the engine. Hoping they keep that out.
I mean, you can have a look at recent merged PRs. With proprietary engines, you just don't know.
Im still mad about the gamemaker licencing bullshit, i paid like $160 AUD for that, made plenty of little projects, and i cant get the actual executables to share anymore. I ended up ditching it for godot before this was an issue and came back to find it worthless now.
and now eric andre can jumpscare you from new and interesting places