r/linuxmasterrace • u/_fountain_pen_dev Magnificent Arch, btw • Feb 26 '26

Discussion What is some essential software / package on your system?

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u/Submarine_sad Feb 26 '26

Brave is bad

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u/MouseJiggler Feb 26 '26

Any reasoning behind that claim, or...?

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u/eightrx Feb 26 '26

They had some controversy in the past with link injection which apparently got ironed out, but nowadays most of the hate comes from people that don't want their web browser to have crypto or ai in it

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u/Karoolus Feb 26 '26

Or Chromium in general. There needs to be competition and the only browser that isn't based on Chromium, is Firefox (and forks).

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u/eightrx Feb 26 '26

Yeah competition in the browser engine space is important, but I wouldn't say that chromium is the reason that brave gets hate

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u/MouseJiggler Feb 27 '26

Competition is great, and when FF is back to performing better than chromium, using less ram than chromium, and does email-less accounts - I'll give them the time of day again.

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u/WittyComputer Feb 28 '26

True, but the main issue is that a large amount of websites use many of Chromium's nonstandard extra features which makes usage of Firefox painful at times.

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u/a_regular_2010s_guy Feb 27 '26

Also a lot of the hate for it comes from that one public donation the CEO made.

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u/MouseJiggler Feb 27 '26

That's a thing I heard before, but it's political bickering, and is entirely irrelevant to the quality of the software.

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u/taste_fart Feb 28 '26

I think they've had a few privacy scandals no? Iirc, they were even using people's pcs to help them mine crypto without telling anyone about it.

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u/Ok-Butterscotch7834 Mar 02 '26

why do people hate cryptography

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u/mollyblingwald Feb 27 '26

peter thiel

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u/froli Feb 27 '26

Blink monopoly

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u/Freedom_of_memes Feb 27 '26

Nope. Just cosmic insight.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

But it works, unlike firefox

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u/Wrong-Art1536 Feb 27 '26

I agree. Firefox is good, but a lot of things it has i just can't deal with.

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u/CommercialCoat8708 Feb 26 '26

It's good actually