• Broken_Monitor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      339·
      1 year ago

      Or duckduckgo. Or Brave. Or Opera. Or Tor.

      I have yet to try the last two. I really enjoy duckduckgo on my phone, but I know there was some controversy. I guess I’m lazy but I love the fire button that burns away all your open tabs and history in one click. Started using Brave recently and I kind of enjoy how it reports how much stuff its blocked and the breakdown of what it all is. I have had no noticeable issues with either one.

        • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
          26·
          1 year ago

          And Tor Browser is Firefox based, so this is still a two player game. Unless you like navigating a GDPR banner on Lynx.

        • Broken_Monitor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          82·
          1 year ago

          Duckduckgo is a firefox addon for desktop. On iOS it utilizes a fork of Safari.

          The others I’m not sure about, but a quick search shows me that I gotta delete Brave. Damn. Google is fucking insidious

  • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
    91·
    1 year ago

    *Badly outdated Chrome with a bunch of critical vulnerabilities.

    Don’t forget every Electron app comes with its own Chrome.

    • qaz@lemmy.world
      42·
      1 year ago

      Last time I checked the version Electron used by Discord was severely out of date causing several issues that had been solved months ago upstream. That’s the fault of Discord, not Electron but there are several issues with Chromium that I have to deal with on every Electron app I use. Compose sequences are still partially broken. I reported it at Chromium but they responded with a video of them testing it on Windows (not with a VM), said they couldn’t reproduce the issue (with a Linux specific input method?!) and then marked it as unreproducible.

        • SmoothIsFast@citizensgaming.com
          191·
          1 year ago

          They use plain text and there biggest shareholder is the Tencent (the CCP let’s be real) are you surprised? It’s literally a data farm for China…

        • dinckel@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 year ago

          They updated to a version that included a patch for that exploit, however it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, because they’re still on 22.x, support for which has already been terminated

      • halva@discuss.tchncs.de
        10·
        1 year ago

        Problem is, for any somewhat big project (like discord) updating Electron without something breaking is a nightmarishly complex venture as Electron doesn’t seem to care about backwards compatibility.

        • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

          The error is in picking Electron in the first place. One particular case that I’ve had with several Electron apps are zombie processes. You close the window, but you check the task manager and see 4-5 processes hanging in there, eating resources for no reason.

          • qaz@lemmy.world
            3·
            1 year ago

            I agree that it’s silly to package your app as a website with a browser but what other options do you have? GTK is difficult to get working on Windows, wxwidgets requires installing libraries on every system and Qt is either paid or LGPL. The only real crossplatform options seem to be Flutter and some .NET frameworks.

            • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
              4·
              1 year ago

              FreePascal + Lazarus have been desktop crossplatform for many years. “But it’s Pascal! Nobody uses Pascal! And the defaults are fugly!”, fair enough, but it offers compatible crossplatform UI with a single codebase.

              Java also lets you write UI stuff and keep a single codebase for multiple platforms, thanks to the JVM. It always looks “weird” or “ugly” next to whatever OS’s default UI is and also needs a compatible JRM installed, but it works.

              Nowadays, web/javascript projects can opt for Tauri or Neutralinojs instead of Electron. They use the OS’s native HTML renderer, no browser required.

          • redhilsha@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 year ago

            I’m using and comfortable with Wayland, particularly Hyprland, that too on an Nvidia card.

            It’s not perfect, but for me it feels way better than X.

              • redhilsha@lemmy.ml
                1·
                1 year ago

                I currently configure Hyprland on a laptop that is not used for video editing or excessive YouTube usage or gaming or multimedia.

                Interesting, could you tell me what sort of glitches you encounter when you do these in Hyprland? I’m assuming you’re an Nvidia user like me.

                Most gaming issues I’ve encountered were solved by simply running all games on Gamescope…which is ironic because gamescope is used for running X programs inside a wayland container but whatevs, if it works it works.

                • 𝘋𝘪𝘳𝘬@lemmy.ml
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Yep, Nvidia.

                  Kdenlive was unusable due to he UI flickering and randomly showing massive black and white bars. It was actually so bad, that it for some reason ruined my configuration and I had to re-setup it under X11 when I switched back.

                  YouTube video ran noticeably worse than on X11. micro lags and overall worse picture quality.

                  I also was not able to get OBS working. Despite everything being set up as in the instructions it did not find any screens or windows to record.

        • Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          1 year ago

          I don’t know why but you comment reminded me that I haven’t updated in a week 💀

          I use gentoo on a laptop so I have 4 makeopts jobs only.

          • technologicalcaveman@kbin.social
            4·
            1 year ago

            Ow. I didn’t use gentoo until I had good enough hardware that updates wouldn’t take 2 days to finish. I used arch or freebsd when I only had a laptop available.

            • Gentoo1337@sh.itjust.works
              3·
              1 year ago

              Surprisingly, it only takes a couple of minutes. Except if I have to update firefox or nodejs or clang or llvm or gcc, those take 4 hour minimum and it’s worse when they all have to update at the same time. It’s spring where I live and I don’t want to know what will happen to my laptop when i try to update on summer.

    • gronjo45@lemm.ee
      4·
      1 year ago

      I want to get better at using TUIs and all the lot of lighter-weight software, but I’ve quite frankly been too stupid to learn it.

      I downloaded Gentoo onto an old Chromebook with the Mr Chromebox script. Currently am trying to make it into a sandbox for me to learn more about how init systems, compilers, and other lower level OS details.

      Other than reading the Wikis, are there any projects that you’d suggest to increase one’s ability in those realms? Thanks!

      • technologicalcaveman@kbin.social
        7·
        1 year ago

        Really what got me to learn to use the terminal more was downloading systems without tons of gui apps. Most base systems will be like that. In general my only gui apps are a file browser, web browser, and audio tools. Debian, arch, gentoo, nix. Avoid stuff like mint or endeavour if you want to force yourself into learning the terminal. The more you use it, the better you’ll get. Using gui apps isn’t bad, sometimes it just works better for specific actions. But knowing how to use the terminal helps for when nothing else works.

    • sheogorath@lemmy.world
      21·
      1 year ago

      gluonjs could be an alternative. IIRC there’s another framework similar to Electron that uses native system WebView for rendering and Rust for interfacing directly with the OS, the name escapes me for the moment though.

      Edit: I remembered the name! It’s Tauri

        • SagXD@lemm.ee
          2·
          1 year ago

          Which is better? Both look promising I want to know which is more lightweight. I am trying to port a electron application to tauri started 2 days ago. I want to make my application fast as possible.

          • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            I haven’t done anything with javascript in over 6 years, so I can’t say which is better.

            This comparison might be useful to you. Tauri gives a smaller executable for Windows compared to Neutralino, but slightly larger for Mac and Linux. Also, Tauri’s build times are orders of magnitude longer (5 minutes vs 1 second for Neutralino), I’d like some confirmation on your part if that’s indeed the case. One thing that really caught my attention, however, is how huge a memory hog Neutralino is on Linux, 700MB for an “empty-app-frameless” project!!

            https://github.com/Elanis/web-to-desktop-framework-comparison

            I’m actually curious in trying these two out myself, especially to see if the tauri build times are that bad, and if neutralino’s RAM usage is so high on linux.