No. "I will support a good service and not mingle with politics"

This is not "different" this is "anti consumer non-sense" and you sound like a chud when you recite corporate propaganda.

Do you know all the personal histories of all the people related to all the services you use?

I said “usually”, and I’m talking about mainstream distros.

They don't all have that either

If fascism was a passive philosophy that didn't hurt anyone then you might have a point. But as you can see recently it's extremely dangerous and ruins lives.

You may not want to mingle with politics, but it doesn't have the same view.

Of course that's not possible, the issue here is being aware and not caring and in some cases supporting it for convenience and selfishness.

I didn't know AMD had managed to switch over to unified memory too. Managing that while remaining x86 compatible is quite an achievement!

I think the next big thing will be when storage becomes as fast as ram and they unify that too, getting rid of separate RAM. Working with data directly in place could have massive efficiency boosts. But the industry has been trying to get it that fast for many years and still not succeeded. And once they do, separate SSDs wouldn't be possible, at least not as a primary storage, so it wont be an advance that makes sense for every use case.

I can install apps well enough, but I'm very techie, the general population isn't gonna be able to do it reasonably

But it’s funded by an unrepentant homophobe! How can you pass on that?!

Indeed. The <"I'm right. There's plenty of sources that back me up, do your own research" then fail to provide sources> crowd are my personal pet peeve.

Sometimes bad people do good things.

Thorium.

How mich actual difference (minus the crypto) is there to base-chromium?
Afaik chromium is capable pf being a browser. Does that also have syncing or is it not capable of that?

If it was intentional double entendre then I retract my comment, but used in the context of "bugs and features" there's a contextual implication.

Honestly not sure. I haven't done a side by side with plain old chromium in years.

The only two there that bother me are the affiliate code thing (reminds me of the Honey drama) and installing extra software without consent. The first was a bad call and probably related with how their ad replacement stuff works (if anything, they should merely axe affiliate links; Firefox has that as an option), and this"solution" to the latter is pretty odd to me:

reinstall the browser without admin rights

Why would a browser need admin rights in the first place? I haven't used Windows in well over a decade, so I don't think that particular one would be an issue for me.

The rest can be grouped as:

• bugs - bug fixes generally don't get prioritized until enough users complain; I would be very picky if I was an at risk person (activist or whatever) and would probably only use Tor browser
• opt-in services
• their marketing department

My options for chromium browsers are:

• something with ineffective ad blocking
• Opera - I used it before it became a chromium browser, then it went downhill; not FOSS
• Brave, with all its warts

Since ad blocking and FOSS are my prerequisites, Brave basically wins by default.

I only use Linux and I want Windows to just stay out of my way or it'll pay, listen to what I say.

I don't like Mozilla either, but here are my priorities in a web browser:

1. FOSS
2. Privacy tools - includes ad blocking; I'd actually be okay with ads if they didn't track me
3. Promotes open web standards - rendering engine diversity is critical here, I don't want a repeat of the IE era
4. Security
5. Performance

Firefox ticks all of them, and my issues with Mozilla as an org don't really come into play. I use a fork on my phone, but I use Firefox on my laptop and desktop because I trust the binaries coming from my Linux distribution maintainers (part of 4).

It's an elite club.

Exactly, how do you even fight with the OS except just making it bit hard for them lol. You have to tell the OS what pixels to put in the screen, there's literally no way you can hide things from the OS if they want to know.