For me the direct opposite is true. About two years ago Google stopped giving me any accurate results, feeding me a bunch of semi-related garbage instead. DuckDuckGo feels like the Google of old: results that actually (literally) contain the terms of the query and not much else. I’d hate using the internet without it.
Honestly all this feels like the railway’s Dieselization 100yrs ago. When the end of steam powered engines was drawing near, coal hauling railroads and Baldwin Locomotive in the U.S. tried all kinds of whacky and hilariously inefficient engine designs, just to keep the ol’ ways alive… none of these worked out - everyone who stuck to it lost hugely. Viz. …m.wikipedia.org/…/Chesapeake_and_Ohio_class_M-1
The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward. As many eagerly await the arrival of Leap 15.6 thi...
Great, so a lot of people are going to have a clear upgrade path (including me). Otherwise OpenSuse would have lost me (and I imagine others) after 25 yrs or so…
Hurrah: “There are no plans to drop the classical (non-immutable) option for Leap;…”
edited the heading of the question. I think most of us here are reasoning why more people are not using firefox (because it was the initial question), but none of that explains why it’s actively losing marketshare....
I think a lot comes down to preinstalled SW on phones (Chrome/Safari) and the enterprise world. My rather large employer just switched from FF preinstalled to Edge for all work devices since it alreadz comes with Windows.
Maybe Firefox is missing a really compelling enterprise offering for Desktops? Everybody less savvy is on mobile anyways, which is dominated by the Duopoly Apple/Google.
Actually in my country DuckDuckGo is the only reliable search engine left. Google started giving me a bunch of bogus results for very specific queries a couple of years ago. Sad that FF depends so much on Ma’Google.
Ich kann’s irgendwie nicht mehr hören. Als hätten wir nicht andere Probleme. Ich spüre in meinem Alltag wirklich nullkomma null Probleme davon dass hier Leute hin migrieren....
Genau so ist es! Und was brauchen wir für eine funktionierende Infrastruktur? Genau: Arbeitskräfte! Und woher bekommen wir die? In meiner Branche gehen in den kommenden zehn Jahren 3x mehr Menschen in den Ruhestand als demografisch nachkommen. Ohne Einwanderung sind wir doch am ****$&#@
I thought I’d chuck windows on my gaming laptop an Acer nitro 5 from last year, to see how it’s going do some bits I can’t on Linux VR, certain multiplayer games etc....
It’s actually worse! Last jan Microsoft bricked the entire fleet of laptops in my company with a borked generic driver update. It overwrote the sd reader’s vendor driver blocking all storage access from working whatsoever. From one week to another more or less all devices refused to boot. They basically killed our entire company for half a week, until IT could walk people through efi-disabling the sd reader in every laptop (recent industrial models mind you) just because windows had pulled in the wrong driver. So… no - it’s not great at all with automatic driver installation in windows …
I’m still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
It’s more of a double edged sword: snaps were great imho when they replaced the mess of old we had going on with thirty or so incompatible ppas.
But why force snaps for central stuff like FF/Chromium and soon Thunderbird?
I just upgraded an old PC and reinstalling Ubuntu meant that all my configs of these apps and then some broke. Snap is using incompatible storage for dotfiles and configurations. And more often than not central Desktop functions like the cursors (atm no hand cursor in FF for me!), sound and common extensions don’t work ootb. For the odd piece of speciality sw I’d had to go hunting for before that’s alright. But not for everyday stuff
Come on canonical, don’t enshittify you great distribution…
Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...
Edit : IT IS "FIXED" BY THE NEW UPDATES. Thank You Devs ❤️
Did anyone face this issue on Ubuntu 23.10 beta ? broke my dual boot ! 😭😓😥 But on 22.04, it's working fine! I'm not complaining, just wanted to know.😟 @ubuntu
Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News (www.reuters.com)
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Hydrogen locomotive (www.money.pl)
First hydrogen locomotive started working in Poland.
Clear Course is Set for openSUSE Leap (news.opensuse.org)
The openSUSE release team confirms there will be a successor to Leap 15 and it’s a numerical leap forward. As many eagerly await the arrival of Leap 15.6 thi...
Why is firefox losing market share? Why don't more people use Firefox?
edited the heading of the question. I think most of us here are reasoning why more people are not using firefox (because it was the initial question), but none of that explains why it’s actively losing marketshare....
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Ich kann’s irgendwie nicht mehr hören. Als hätten wir nicht andere Probleme. Ich spüre in meinem Alltag wirklich nullkomma null Probleme davon dass hier Leute hin migrieren....
Rant: My recent experience of trying to install windows for gaming and why I'm really thankful for Linux
I thought I’d chuck windows on my gaming laptop an Acer nitro 5 from last year, to see how it’s going do some bits I can’t on Linux VR, certain multiplayer games etc....
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KDE with good Samba: is it possible?
An old grudge: i actually love KDE Plasma, but rely on a plethora of remote Samba shares for work....
Linux hits 4% on the desktop 🐧 📈 (gs.statcounter.com)
Do you daily drive Wayland, if so since when, if not when will you?
I’ve been on Wayland for the past two years exclusively (Nvidia)....
The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. (www.theatlantic.com)
Your first distribution
What was the first ever distro you installed and used? For me, it was Mint as I seemed like the closest thing to Windows minus all the forced updates and chappy changes....
Großprojekt Stuttgart 21: Wer zahlt die Milliarden-Mehrkosten? (www.tagesschau.de)
Schengen, Komfort, alles egal?
Nightjet aus Wien, die dt. Bundespolizei holt mich unsanft an der Grenze aus dem Tiefschlaf - was soll das?!...
Watch: Adobe angers artists with new Photoshop terms (techcrunch.com)
Artists got an unpleasant surprise when they opened Photoshop this week, as they were shown a pop-up window asking them to agree to new terms of service. Among the changes: Adobe now says it has the right to access customers’ content through “automated or manual methods.”...
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