The simple virtue of being able to genuinely express these words; "I don't know", "Sorry" and "Thank you" (or any derivative of these*).
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Nix is definitely cool and I already have it installed on my system. Unfortunately, even Nix has trouble with keeping Brave up-to-date at all times. It's still on 1.59.120, while Brave has had three releases since. It took about 3 days after the release of version 1.59.120 for them to release it on their repos. As you can see, it leaves a lot to desire.
Oh lol :P , thanks for answering my curiosity. Isn't that like annoying to deal with for yourself as well 😅?
Brave is ultimately an advertising company, they base their business model in ads. And everyone knows how bad that can turn.
Seems more like FUD, but sure.
Ungoogled Chromium on the other hand takes patches from brave and other Chromium based browsers
In the past it was simply dismissed due to reasons mentioned here. I don't have any qualms against Ungoogled Chromium, so I'm not opposed to using it if the stated reasons have been cleared since. But I've never got any confirmation on that.
It's in privsec.dev's recommendations, so it's safe to assume it's at least a decent choice for privacy. I'd argue it's best for 'normies' together with Fedora.
One of its unique qualities would be the excellent support for Btrfs+Snapper out of the box and the fact that it's the only distro I'm aware of that has configs for both AppArmor and SELinux. Furthermore, its stable rolling release model is perhaps its killer-feature.
Its primary con is probably how it's not Arch(-based) and thus doesn't have access to the vast supplies of packages found in the AUR. Thankfully, this is easily solvable through Distrobox.
I think I already addressed that point with
If you choose to do so and it has worked out for you wonderfully; that’s awesome, I’ve been there and enjoyed the experience as well. But, I can’t justify it for myself any longer.
If you meant something else, then please feel free to correct me.
Brave homophobic though
Its CEO; yes.
It is the best Chromium based browser, in a sense, unfortunately…
Agreed.
You can also use AppImages.
I'm not necessarily opposed to it, as I do use them if they're inaccessible to me otherwise and if it's official and up-to-date. But for security-sensitive apps (like a browser) I would rather not rely on it. Furthermore, it seems it's unofficial anyways.
This is a cool resource. Thank you!
You already use an arch container that has access to the AUR, which has literally every package, available on linux.
if anything, flatpaks are THE official (universal) packaging format for Linux
I don't deny that, I make good use of a ton of flatpaks on my system. I also believe that it's the best we have. And I would literally switch to Brave as a flatpak if it would satisfy the following:
- Be official and thus maintained by Brave itself.
- Not having to forego its own more powerful sandbox due to (hopefully) current restrictions of Flatpak. Yes, you read that correctly; while flatpaks are arguably the safest way to consume most applications, this doesn't apply to apps that actually have stronger sandboxes which had to be 'slimmed down' when packaged as a flatpak. Thus, currently, for maximum protection, one simply can't rely on flatpaks for their Chromium-based browsers. If you choose to do so and it has worked out for you wonderfully; that's awesome, I've been there and enjoyed the experience as well. But, I can't justify it for myself any longer.
Unfortunate. Thanks for the headsup :D !
Not sure if it counts as a blog, but I really value the articles found on privsec.dev. With (perhaps) its most exceptional feat being that it's somehow continuously kept up-to-date to provide accurate information at all times.