Slightly related. Does anyone know of any decent Matrix clients (apps) on Android and/or Linux? Because, and I don’t mean to be rude when I say this but…Element is very, very bad.

I don’t really use my software. I just gawk and marvel at its beauty, its slick form factor, its beautiful rounded curves. /s

I wish more people realized that using a simple policies.json file can easily transform their Firefox to behave more like LibreWolf out of the box, meaning (as someone else mentioned earlier):

• telemetry disabled by default
• AI features disabled by default
• uBlock Origin enabled out-of-the-box

It is sad (and funny) that people are calling Mozilla and Firefox shady but then installing Firefox-based “forks” from random 3rd parties. I wonder how many people realize that “forks” like LibreWolf are not patching the spooky AI or telemetry source code out of the browser at all, they are pretty much just shipping Firefox with their opinionated custom configurations and a different branding.

There is too much focus on GTK4 libadwaita apps in this article. Libadwaita apps already dominate the front pages of Flathub everyday because of obvious bias.

On the Qt/KDE side, Elisa, Fooyin and Cantata are good recommendations.

This is the main argument the GNOME developers use to justify why they don’t support SSD. This is true, xdg-decoration is an “unstable” protocol, and wayland was originally designed with only CSD in mind.

This is the main argument they use but this is not the main reason. The main reason is “design”. SSDs are not a part of GNOME HIG or GNOME’s vision. It’s not that they just ‘don’t like it’. They actively want to kill it, at least in their own ecosystem.

The original 2018 “CSD initiative” blog post has TLDR on top saying, " Let’s get rid of title bars. Join the revolution!" so they consider this a “revolution”.

Nativoids really be letting an image viewer access the entire filesystem

GNOME’s default image viewer (Loupe) has full filesystem read/write access even when it is installed via Flathub. The sandbox is useless.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.Loupe

But of course, keep using buzzwords like “Nativoids” and then saying you are just ragebaiting.

Do GNOME folks just never use Kdenlive or even OBS Studio? 😅

I’m surprised I see these kinds of articles and comments about LibreOffice all the time but never about Qt apps like OBS Studio that don’t really have a good GTK alternative (afaik).

Pathetic. This “us-vs-them” tribalist mentality of some GNOME folks is embarrassing. Better focus on your own work instead of finding fault in others. Let people work on their own projects in peace if you cannot collaborate with them.

https://www.winehq.org/donate

I ran into this annoying issue when I tried PaperWM on GNOME. Other than that it was great. Scrollable tiling feels like a better way to manage windows than traditional tiling in Sway or i3, especially for smaller laptop displays.

I like your setup. I want something simple just like this but I couldn’t get Niri working in Virt-Manager to try it out.

I would still suggest folks to at least go through Librewolf’s FAQ and Docs. For example, Librewolf disables DNS over HTTPS by default. See https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#doh-whats-the-stance-on-doh

If anyone reading this is not configuring their DNS on their routers or on their Linux machines using systemd-resolved or something similar, I suppose they should probably at least configure their browser to use DNS over HTTPS. It should be better than using the default DNS resolver provided by your ISP.

As far as I’m aware, Librewolf’s team isn’t making significant changes to Firefox’s code or “patching out” some spooky telemetry. Librewolf is essentially pre-configuring a bunch of “privacy” and “security” related settings in Firefox for their users. But alternatively any user can configure these things themeselves and make their own choices. Even pre-installing extensions and add-ons on fresh Firefox profiles can be easily done by any user using Firefox policies (which is what Librewolf uses to pre-install Ublock Origin.) But let’s say you also want another extension like Bitwarden to be pre-installed on every fresh Firefox profile. Or you don’t trust DuckDuckGo and instead want to configure Firefox to use a self-hosted SearXNG instance as your default search engine. Then maintaining your own Firefox policies can help you do all this.

I understand it is far simpler and far more desirable to have “privacy and security” out-of-box without having to configure anything at all. But it is probably not a bad idea to take the time to see what configurations you can make to Firefox yourself, even if you decide to use LibreWolf. You may end up wanting your own configurations in addition to what Librewolf’s team decides for you.

Hey, just wanted to point out that xbrowsersync hasn’t seen updates for quite some time. I would suggest folks to read this discussion and to perhaps check out Floccus as an alternative.

Both Floccus and xBrowserSync have Android apps on the F-droid app store as well.

• https://f-droid.org/packages/com.xBrowserSync.android/
• https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.handmadeideas.floccus

I use Floccus.