Does that include cutting out Google's access completely? /s
Thanks! Redeemed For the King 2 for its multiplayer support 👍
Will it have a New New Funky Mode?
It's still Chromium-based though, and therefore Manifest MV2 extensions that are far more effective at ad-blocking are no longer supported. Better to use Firefox or a derivative of it.
The loss of built-in PWA support was the biggest disappointment I had when switching from Chrome to Firefox, with the add-on solutions I tried having one problem or another in replicating my goal of making opening a handful of websites I had set to be PWAs look as much like regular applications as possible. While I wouldn't switch back to Chrome in a second, and am still trying to get the rest of my family to make the switch, there's a number of things Firefox needs to implement to remove the remaining roadblocks for people looking to make the switch away from Chrome or another Chromium browser.
While I'm no fan of Epic Games for bribing companies to keep games off of Steam for a year or more, Valve's market dominance in PC game sales isn't a good thing for developers or consumers.
Not if the admins of an instance want to maintain their echo chamber by shepherding discussions towards extremist viewpoints.
Same with Garrett County in Western Maryland; lots of multi-million dollar vacation houses that border Maryland's largest lake, despite there being few job opportunities in the county as a whole.
Wanted to put Proton VPN on my Steam Deck, so it's quite frustrating that even a distribution with millions of users doesn't have a version of the program released for it, given that the alternative methods of using it don't allow for easy server switching.
Also have to make sure that the public WiFi network one's device is connected to doesn't block VPN connections, as was the case at at least one Walmart I tried using the WiFi at.
Crazy that so many of them are still operating in Russia...
While I too find Linux, Arch Linux in my case due to the Steam Deck, to often be overly complicated, with operating system settings not nearly as streamlined via GUIs as on Windows, the forced switch to the enshittified Windows 11 has motivated me to set up the Steam Deck as similarly to my Windows 10 laptop as possible.
While most Windows 10 programs should work on Windows 11, I'd rather go through the hassle of switching to an OS I can trust and configure to my liking, rather than one where configuration via the Windows registry can have unintended side effects.
If program compatibility is a worry in your switch to Linux, proton, and wine as a whole, can usually let you use Windows programs on Linux; it's how most games are able to run on the Steam Deck in the first place.
In terms of Firefox, while there's a couple things I miss from my switch away from Chrome, such as network media playback support and built-in web-app functionality, better adblocking support via Manifest V2 add-ons and less to worry about in terms of data privacy make putting up with the hassle of configuring it to my liking more than worthwhile. Via the browser's chrome.css GUI configuration capabilities, I disabled several menu options and context menu items to make it more like what I had been used to in using Chrome.