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I ditched Linux for Windows 11 for one week - and found 9 big problems (www.zdnet.com)

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[–] entwine@programming.dev 97 points 4 weeks ago (10 children)

I installed Opera and used it exclusively.

Why do people use Opera? It's a proprietary Chrome fork owned by a Chinese company.

[–] tomiant@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I love Vivaldi, which is like a spiritual improvement on Opera. I switched a few years back, and once you get used to the UI and the key shortcuts it's just such a breeze using the internet. Magnificently customizable, very nice little extras. ALAS! Because Vivaldi is based on Opera which is based on Chromium and Google came out and started blocking or restricting addons (the implementation of Manifest v3 blocks a lot of API block requests that ad blockers rely on), I went back to Firefox. Because fuck that.

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