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My little brother loves the dualboot setup I installed for him. He says "It's like iOS" (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My brother is 12 and just like other people of his age he can't use a computer properly because he is only familiar with mobile devices and dumbed-down computers

I recently dual-booted Fedora KDE and Windows 10 on his laptop. Showed him Discovery and told him, "This is the app store. Everything you'll ever need is here, and if you can't find something just tell me and I'll add it there". I also set up bottles telling him "Your non-steam games are here". He installed Steam and other apps himself

I guess he is a better Linux user than Linus Sebastian since he installed Steam without breaking his OS...

The tech support questions and stuff like "Can you install this for me?" or "Is this a virus?" dropped to zero. He only asks me things like "What was the name of PowerPoint for Linux" once in a while

After a week I have hardly ever seen my brother use Windows. He says Fedora is "like iOS" and he absolutely loved it

I use Arch and he keeps telling me "Why are you doing that nerdy terminal stuff just use Fedora". He also keeps explaining to me why Fedora better than my "nerd OS"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not open source and based on chrome

why not just use firefox for everything?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Because I need tab organisation to stop my arse from overflowing with tabs and getting overwhelmed, which Vivaldi does nicely with workspaces and Firefox can't really do at all.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I looked it up and while Firefox has most of the tab features Vivaldi does (tab pinning, tab duplication, moving tabs, muting tabs) it doesn't have tab stacking, which was novel to me

there are a couple firefox addons that more or less replicate this feature in different forms from some brief research

for example tree style tabs is a popular addon

i also found tab stack and simple tab groups although they do not look as streamlined as vivaldi

regardless, thanks for the info. i'm going to try out tree style tabs because it seems like a useful feature for me too that i hadn't considered before

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No prob! I did use Tree Style Tabs and that helped a bit but Vivaldi's extra features and how streamlined it is just edge it out as better than Firefox + addons for me. There's also tab workspaces for grouping tabs into screens, typically on what type of browsing you're doing, and tab tiling which Firefox was able to do back in its XUL days but can't do in Quantum. I think Firefox would be pretty neat with a power-user oriented fork to bring back some missing features.

My only issue with Vivaldi is, if a site is still providing insecure HTTP for whatever reason (7digital for some reason still provides purchase downloads this way) then Vivaldi silently fails. Firefox clearly warns the user, so that's my reason for having Firefox on hand - for those stragglers.