Most of small town India is this. Small store, one person, usually owner or their family member, doing everything.

I thought I'll give it a try - looks great but found it takes longer to start than konsole so back to the latter.

I hate the forced AI generated English translation of the non-english shorts with the passion of a million suns. It should never have been the default. If you are the person who made that decision, fuck you. If you know that person, please pass on my sentiments.

I cant wait for the day when the perfume and food shops in the mall use this for truly targeted advertisement. Cue rise of ultrasound-proof hats and lawsuits by people who report feeling sick due to such ads.

I have been exclusively using Linux at home for many years and with every passing day, more so in the age of AI, the decision is more and more validated. I used to say that Linux is not for everyone, there is a non-trivial learning curve and it requires commitment and willingness to spend time troubleshooting in case of issues etc.

A lot of that is still true but the usability improvements combined with downright hostile behavior exhibited by Windows makes me say to Windows users that are tired of this nonsense: if you can and are not tied to Windows-only proprietary software, making an effort to switch would be a _very_ good investment of your time.

You don't need to do big-bang, you can dual-boot and progressively migrate. One of the best decisions I did was move to my data to a separate drive/partition (NTFS filesystem) on Windows - that allowed me to have access to all my data (documents/music/videos et all) from both Windows and Linux and made the migration that much more easy.

Finance IT is the same. Windows everywhere. Occasionally there is a second-class-citizen Linux VM thrown in to tick the we-support-desktop-Linux checkbox.

Greedy managers are a blocker to actual engineering. It wasn't enough that they were trying to squeeze the last ounce of delivery via twisted implementations of Agile. Now they are shooting down every attempt to apply any amount of introspection and thought with blanket expectation of LLMs obviating any need to do so. That combined with random regurgitation of terms like "MCP" and "agentic" has made programming into a zombie-like experience of trying to coax the LLMs to produce something workable while fighting inflated expectations of the hallucinating bosses.

They can add features that help with browsing. E.g. they can steal the workspaces idea from Vivaldi. Or the side by side split window idea which is great for comparisons. Or adding a light weight mode which is somewhere between full fledged and text reader modes.

There are so many improvements that can make the browsing experience significantly better. I wish they picked at least some of these things instead of stuffing AI in yet another sidebar.

They can steal Workspaces from Vivaldi.

Or they can steal vertical tabs from Vivaldi.

Or they can steal the built-in RSS client form Vivaldi.

Or they can steal the ability to save sessions from Vivaldi.

Or they can steal the built-in notes from Vivaldi.

Or they can steal the tab stacking from Vivaldi.

Or they can steal the profile switching from Vivaldi.

Honest question. What could Vivaldi "steal" from Firefox?

Containers.

Firefox has this ability to separate cookies etc into different partitions, and users can make use of this feature by opening tabs in different containers. Many times when I use profiles in other browsers what I really want is container tabs.

That combined with sideberry makes Firefox the superior one when I was checking if Vivaldi was worth switching to.

Containers seemed great to me at first but eventually they actually got in my way just as profiles do.

I just ended up with mounds of rules about what to open in the same container vs not, what urls to force in a given container, etc.

I still want to like them, but TBH, I don't miss them in Vivaldi.

Totally willing to accept I was doing containers wrong, I guess, but in that case, I don't know what "right" would've looked like.

That was also my story and I abandoned containers that time. But it turns out to be more about bad default UI.

The game changer is Sideberry. It makes manually managed container tabs almost effortless. Instead of messing with auto rules, you would:

- Set default containers for each pane;

- Use shortcuts to open new sibling/child tab in the same container;

- Save/restore tabs as bookmarks keeping their containers.

It’s still not perfect UI, but in reality covers all the use cases where I’d reach for a container.

It’s just so much peaceful to know that I won’t accidentally tie anything to the google account, while still have gmail open in that cyan backgrounded tab just a ctrl-tab away.

So I'd need an extension from my extension? :)

Maybe I can go back to Zen just to get more layers out of my browser sammich.

> Honest question. What could Vivaldi "steal" from Firefox?

Not being so weirdly buggy on Windows. It's my main browser but man does it have odd behaviors that need restarts occasionally.

> Or they can steal vertical tabs from Vivaldi.

Firefox already has vertical tabs and they work great.

> Or they can steal the profile switching from Vivaldi.

I'm pretty sure that Firefox has profile switching in some capacity, although I don't personally use it and can't vouch for it.

As for the rest of these, I agree completely. Firefox has too many wacky AI experiments and not enough normal browser features.

Seems to me that there is a fourth platform emerging: Windows, Mac, Linux and now, Steam.

PS: I know its custom Arch Linux under the hood, I'm talking about mass market nomenclature.

The main problem with Linux as a platform, is that it isn't. Linux is a kernel, with a platform built on top of it. And that's the real issue: Gnome and KDE are separate platforms; but so are Ubuntu and Fedora; but so are Flatpak and Snap; etc. Depending on your application, you will have to support several combinations.

For gaming, Steam OS fixes that. You can't target "Linux", but you can target Steam on Linux.

Which is fine, its a much better situation than the current status quo, If all devs build around steam OS's 'platform' its not that big of a deal for any Linux enthusiast to run in their custom made setup, the main concern is the layman, the enthusiast love these types of problems.

Drill down further - driving vs idling on traffic stops.

And drilling down on the other dimension...talking vs. listening to wife