Zorin OS 17.3 is Here
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We’re excited to announce the release of Zorin OS 17.3 today, which brings a host of improvements across the system. It introduces new features, …

In light of Mozilla’s recent policy changes, we no longer feel assured that Firefox aligns with our commitment to protect your privacy. This prompted us to revisit the choice of default web browser in Zorin OS 17.3.

  • juipeltje@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Seems like a strange choice. If anything i would’ve expected them to just use a firefox fork or something.

  • Peasley@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    “Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"

  • the_wiz@feddit.org
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    10 hours ago

    Well, Brave is -regardless of the companies decisions- still a damn good browser with many build in essentials (TOR, IPFS, Bittorrent…), so, while I PERSONALLY don’t use this anymore (currently I use an heavily patched suckless surf and Dillo) I don’t see much wrong in including this in a distribution especially catering to users switching from windows.

  • Unmapped@lemmy.ml
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    11 hours ago

    I’m actually not familiar with this distro. But if I installed a Linux distro, and it have brave installed. I would immediately switch.

  • cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de
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    12 hours ago

    I have ff installed but uses librewolf for most uses. Should I be worried if ff is in my system? Somebody please explain.

  • Jakob Fel@retrolemmy.com
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    14 hours ago

    I hope to see more distros do this. Strongly considering buying a Pro license just to support them for doing the right thing. Screw Mozilla.

    • Hawke@lemmy.world
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      13 hours ago

      I dunno that I’d consider Brave to be “the right thing” but more variety/competition is best!

  • lumony@lemmings.worldEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    Blech. I’d downvote this because I disagree with their decision, but I’m glad you brought this to our attention.

  • funbreaker@kbin.earth
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    15 hours ago

    I feel like if they were gonna go chromium, they should have gone with Vivaldi. It may not be open source but it’s not doing a crypto scam. Waterfox would have also been a good choice, probably better because it’s Gecko.

    • Pirata@lemm.ee
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      11 hours ago

      I don’t know the details, but I hope they will at least remove the VPN and crypto wallet integrations from the default installed version.

  • daggermoon@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.

    • Pirata@lemm.ee
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      11 hours ago

      Why are you guys so obsessed with the latest packages? A lot of new stuff doesn’t work on older PCs which is also Linux’s target market.

      • daggermoon@lemmy.world
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        10 hours ago

        Not all of us use older PC’s. I really don’t care what other people use but I like being on the latest version of whatever software I’m using. Also, I used endeavourOS on a Thinkpad T-420 and didn’t have any issues with running the latest software on that laptop from 2012. I’m not saying you haven’t had issues but it isn’t exactly black or white. Older PC’s are not Linux’s target market. Everything is Linux’s target market. Linux will run on everything from a Pentium II laptop to a $50,000,000 super computer.

        • Pirata@lemm.ee
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          10 hours ago

          Not all of us use older PC’s. I really don’t care what other people use but I like being on the latest version of whatever software I’m using

          I stopped reading about here. I can already tell the rest is a “me, me, me!” ramble about how the world should appeal to you and you only.

          Just don’t use Zorin, you’re not their target market.

          Kind regards.

          • daggermoon@lemmy.world
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            8 hours ago

            If you actually read it you’d know that wasn’t true. My point was Linux is very scalable and what works for me might not be what works for you and vice verca. Use whatever you want, I don’t care. You can use fucking Windows for all I care.

    • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      17 hours ago

      It is marketed as direct windows replacement, so it appears they choose absolute safety, over possible breakage. If that GRID product they tout ever launches it will be great for companies.

        • BCsven@lemmy.ca
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          14 hours ago

          We see SUSE and REL at corps and enterprises, not so much Ubuntu. None offer something like GRID though. Central management tool for Admins to deploy all systems equally from central location, with dashboard view, without having to run scripts or autoYAST to keep systems the same