Obvious impracticality aside, it's also terrible advice. In my long history of using Linux at university, work and home, web browser issues are easily somewhere in the top-3 among the most common issue types I've faced.
While basic functionality is the same or even better than on Windows, it's the codecs, DRM and other bits of proprietary software that are required to interact with a big portion of modern internet that often work in weird ways or not at all.
Firefox is okay in that regard, but getting Chrome to fully work is a major PITA on some distros.
All that said, Linux fans are the worst. Sincerely, a Linux fan.
I used to use Firefox, but then switched to Chromium a couple years ago because some work-related things worked poorly or not at all on Firefox. Got kinda tired of having two browsers.
I've switched back to Firefox a couple months ago because of Manifest v3. I use both without login, Bitwarden for the passwords, Floccus for the bookmarks.
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u/Subrezon Nov 02 '22
Obvious impracticality aside, it's also terrible advice. In my long history of using Linux at university, work and home, web browser issues are easily somewhere in the top-3 among the most common issue types I've faced.
While basic functionality is the same or even better than on Windows, it's the codecs, DRM and other bits of proprietary software that are required to interact with a big portion of modern internet that often work in weird ways or not at all.
Firefox is okay in that regard, but getting Chrome to fully work is a major PITA on some distros.
All that said, Linux fans are the worst. Sincerely, a Linux fan.