Mozilla's new CEO, Apple breaks PWA, Wine on Android: Linux & Open Source News

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• Firefox is still my favourite browser. I use it on all my devices. Edge I pretty much only use for corporate stuff on my work laptop, and to run some websites as apps on my Windows machine. Chrome, I just use for debugging. And on my Linux machine I use Thunderbird as my email client, another nice Mozilla product!

• Feels like Mozilla will blow their chance to grow with the WebKit monopoly kind off disappearing in the EU.

• I still use Firefox as my main browser but Mozilla has made a fatal mistake with it: they've slowly gotten rid of the differences that made it stand out from Chrome giving few reasons for people to use it instead of Chrome. Mozilla has actively angered long-time users and removed features that made Firefox so much more powerful than Chrome and other alternatives. This is still ongoing btw. Hopefully they bring it back around but it's not looking good. We need alternative browsers more than ever since Chrome is effectively the Trojan horse of the web.

• Well, not gonna defend Apple on their approach to „comply“ with EU rulings, but PWAs do still work if the website is correctly configured. If it is not, you‘ll end up with a shortcut to a website that will be opened in the default browser. Good example is the German „ZDF Mediathek“ which is a PWA that totally feels like a local App – still works in Germany with iOS 17.4 with no issues.

• Oh get the hell outta here. Now browser with monthly fees?? Next car blinkers and brake lights. Actually hourly charge for browsing internet would be cool 🙃

• Mozilla feels dead to me. They cannot get anything right, and I'm tired of waiting for new features.

• rip ff

• Not having your CEO know anything about the products, not being an engineer, it’s like a pilot, not knowing how to fly.

• Imagine enabling auto updating for anything these days.
  I'd rather take my chance with "security risks" than have someone else decide to push an update that breaks or removes features I actually use.

• I will wait til 24.10 Kubuntu :).

• Cassia backend code is open source but frontend will be close source.
  This is because their previous project (skyline) was forked and repacked with different names
  They want to avoid this

• I was surprised Wine's latest project was about porting Windows games on Android, first thing that came to mind was Windows Phone games (while the OS looks… abandoned? At least I am no longer anything from it). So… I am confused what the use cases could be here. o.o

• EU should ban Apple from selling anything until they offer full compliance. The whole world should do so.

• Apple's still doing Apple shit. Don't think different, just think.

• "Kubuntu council"
  Based

• Product owners are generally better leaders than developers/engineers. Leading a team is very very very different from writing code. And this sounds obvious, but I doubt anyone truly understands. It takes a very very special person to be both a skilled engineer and a leader at the same time.

• Excited for Wayland to keep moving forward. I switched to Fedora for it's good Wayland support because it fixed my issues with my Intel A770. This did break some apps I use but not ones I use every day.

• All you really need to know about linux as a regular home user: you need special overpriced PC or laptop to have linux working. And you will be vendor locked 🙂 Or you need to be just a linux kernel developer. It is very sad that all this precious Linux community still can not provide just a single standard package format for software developers. So, still it is good server or embedded OS but a nightmare desktop version. And because of that, linux is unattractive to game developers and mainstream popular software vendors. It is really sad, but I do not spend time to tinker with some distro to have sound and video working and then a new distro software update will break something or my laptop would break and I will have to to everything again with new one. So, windows.

• 3:19 how much percentage do you pay mafia for them to not attack you?

• Moziila monitor plus is a scam. They are here to collect your information. Firefox is already spying on you.

• 2:26 "first we allow your information to be stolen then we recover it… for you."

• Regarding FireFox, I noticed that the user was never mentioned in the changes. As a user I need a browser that doesn't sell me out to anyone with a nickel.

• Firefox started to crash like crazy after the last forced update two days ago. Stating to get nervous…

• no ai in my moz, thanks.

• The new CEO is a product person? Oh no…

• I don't understand why you are so eager to get the newest desktop environment, let that plasma 6 sink in, and be tested in the wild, instead of bringing it with probably unknown bugs in the LTS release.

  And to be fair I have my Linux Experiment, since beginning of the year I was fully on Linux, a bit of hopping, mostly Fedora on Gnome and KDE and Mint with Cinnamon, Ubuntu Studio, and TL:DR – I am back on Windows.

  Overall experience was OK, way better than years back, but still Linux Desktop have some undercooked solutions.
  Cinnamon with Mint give me best experience, only downfall is that Wayland is on the way for now, and it is not super popular so there is not so much extensions and applets.
  Gnome feels most polished, really has this apple feel (the positive one ;-)), but UI is too big, I am not talking about scaling, I am talking about proportions, maybe it is fine on a 15" laptop, but on big desktop is too big (IMHO it needs "thinner version" option by default), And Nautilus/Files, it really needs to have changed that Ctrl+L to change into double click or something to go into edit path, it is terrible UX. And if at some point clean Gnome will get layouts like Zorin has, it would be a banger – but I doubt they will do it.
  Plasma, oh plasma…. It is nice when it works properly. Overall was OK, but only Dolphin was having some terrible hiccups and freezing because of external disk with NTFS, both Nemo and Nautilus were absolutely OK with same drive with those partitions, so something is wrong there…. Installing themes are painful and to clutter, or Breeze Dark need became a dark theme instead of this blueish-grey ugly thing. Plasma is nice, but man there is a mess on every corner :D.
  Ubuntu studio – nice looking plasma out of the box, the rest was terrible, I don't know what is wrong with snap but if I need to click 3 times in the Firefox Icon to start it after could boot, something is awful there. Same problem with that external drive in Dolphin, like on Fedora KDE.
  And I will try it one more, in 2 years probably or something, when Wayland will land properly, hopefully…

• People should stop buying Apple products. The company is downright abusive.

• Apple's sabotage of PWA is anti consumer, anti developer, and is definitely underreported. The irony is that PWA style apps were Steve Job's vision for the original iPhone.

• 😂 definitely if someone is paying a monthly fee to erase their data reeee they got something very sus going on. No one will be able to bull shit me otherwise ever.

• see I switched from Firefox to Brave . its better than Firefox . firefox is slow and loading videoes takes time

• Hahaha @ the EU

• I've already dumped Firefox and switched to Brave until Brave craps out.

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• mozzilla sold out to big tech so deserved end

• I hope wine on android Will be good I want to play world of warcraft wotlk on the go

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