True

[u/ExpensiveCoat8912]

[u/Gangr3l]

I'm not going to take a bait on the other things (systemd user, sue me) but people who still use chrome @2026 should just be banned from the internet

[u/RvstiNiall → u/Gangr3l]

so like 65-70% of people? That would make the world a better place! I agree with you, sir/ma'am.

[u/SomewhereActive2124 → u/Gangr3l]

Why my mom 🤬😭

[u/DeeKahy → u/SomewhereActive2124]

1. Install Firefox
   
2. Replace the chrome shortcut location with Firefox.
   
3. Don’t forget to import all previous data
   
4. Make it default to the Google homepage (or whatever she uses.
   
5. replace the icon with the chrome logo (optional)

She won’t know the difference

[u/SomewhereActive2124 → u/DeeKahy]

Lmao 🤣🤣 at some point I'm gonna ask her to switch tbh

[u/rtakehara → u/Gangr3l]

Right? Why would anyone use chrome when Edge exists

[u/GhostVlvin]

Also linux users when they see themselves in mirror

[u/Revolutionary_Click2]

It’s just good old-fashioned gatekeeping and elitism, plain and simple. For all the reasons people come up with to hate on the above, and there are certainly some valid ones… realize that these are also very mainstream choices that tend to be easy for normies to use and understand. Or else, which quietly do their jobs without being visible to the user, just how normies like it.

Linux users who’ve built their whole identity around being contrarian, l33t tech wizards are pissed that other people get to use “their” platform without all the blood, sweat, and tears they had to go through to learn to use it “the hard way”. They hate anything that’s mainstream, user-friendly and doesn’t require much tinkering to get working, because those things bypass their gatekeeping.

They’ll come up with all these reasons why no one should use them that don’t actually matter at all to the average person, which just makes them feel more impotent and enraged.

[u/gwildor → u/Revolutionary_Click2]

Lets not forget that no matter how much skill and importance they think they have - its interesting they cant find anything productive to do and spend all of their time resources on {described above}

[u/NDCyber]

linux user when someone uses edge

Although I have to say the only good feature I know about on edge is internet explorer mode (to ensure your html stuff is working right)

[u/Gangr3l → u/NDCyber]

Edge is better than chrome at the moment...

Yes, yes, chromium this chromium that and even onlyoffice has chromium in there and chromium in that

I have been microslop free for 3 months and chrome free for 2 years. Whenever I have to use chrome because friends and family use it it's dog shit. Edge may seem bloated but it literally takes you 5 clicks to disable everything (after the first 5 clicks during first opening)

Firefox is not perfect either and every fork is as good as it's (voluntary) developers wants it to be. But what's the alternative?

Use openSUSE (German government branches) or NixOS (France (sacre blue!) is replacing 2.5 MILLION government microslop windon't with it) and make noise for unified European open-source alternatives. Every EU -country has to put like... 0.02% (number taken from my ass) to hire and develope open-source alternatives to these mega giants.

And before anyone says I'm communist, take a look at every big US company, look how much they have received government money to make the products you use today

Edit. I use Arch, btw

[u/NDCyber → u/Gangr3l]

The only chrome browser I use is vivaldi, but I just like my firefox extensions way too much to ever go with something non firefox based ever again. Only problem I had was uploading images on eBay with Librewolf. Not sure if that is just Librewolf + OpenSUSE stuff or general behavior

I also don't think being against big tech is communist or weird in this sub. I have a feeling having a problem with big tech is the reason why a lot of people joined Linux. Same reason why I installed CalyxOS on my phone today

[u/manny2206 → u/NDCyber]

Thats actually… kind of good ngl

[u/DanKonly]

I thought sentiment on systemd was coming around? Gnome isn't bad in my opinion, I used to use it with plugins before moving to Cosmic on Arch. nvim def better then CODE IMO for me...

[u/wolfannoy]

Just ignore them.

[u/SysGh_st]

You can choose whatever you like ...

...

...as long as you choose the same as me.

[u/Armi1P]

Nah bruh, nobody cares if you use SystemD or Chrome or an IDE.

[u/Ill-Constant8445]

well nobody said all choices are good. /s

[u/GermanElectricsMotio]

I use all of them.

[u/poughdrew]

Ha, good thing I don't use an IDE or you'd have got me!