• qyron@sopuli.xyz
    3·
    4 hours ago

    High-jacking the thread a bit.

    As anyone tried Midori recently. I remembered about it this past weekend and when searching I was impressed with the project page.

    Installed it on my phone and my computer.

    On Android it is not ready yet. Maybe for tablets. The browser did not resize to fit the screen. It also felt heavy. Removed after a few tentative uses.

    On PC, the same feeling of being heavy, slow moving. It took a long time to open and start navigating. My computer is not new but it carries itself well enough to start FF in a few seconds.

  • germanatlas@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    4 hours ago

    There are several gui applications for your package manager you can use to install various browsers.

    This ironically fits more to windows users trying to uninstall edge

  • leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    16·
    14 hours ago

    Add programs.firefox.enable = true; to configuration.nix.

    Call sudo nixos-rebuild switch. Maybe add --flake if you’re feeling adventurous.

    Done.

    Or, more realistically…

    programs = {
    firefox = {
        enable = true;
        # Configure anything you want here (language,
        # extensions, policies... whatever).
    };
    # Enable and configure other programs here.
};

    … and keep the whole thing in a git repository to track changes and have it available for other machines.

    • Pastel@sopuli.xyz
      71·
      9 hours ago

      And you can even add programs.firefox.package = pkgs.librewolf; if you prefer it!

  • treadful@lemmy.zipEnglish
    30·
    16 hours ago

    Don’t know what the fuck is going on there, but that’s not installing a browser.

    • Marduk73@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      8 hours ago

      They think they are movie hackers sitting in a back seat in a high speed chase going clackity clak ok got it, next light is green.

    • girsaysdoom@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      10 hours ago

      Looks like they have a tiling window manager running the ‘stat’ command on a bunch of kernel files on the left, then a bunch of smaller window tiles having random stuff like garbled text, a resource monitor, and gnucharmap?

  • chi-chan~@lemmy.world
    774·
    20 hours ago

    Literally easier than Windows.

    People are falling for this and downloading software from unofficial websites.

    Linux is super easy.

    • Debian-based: # apt install firefox
    • Red-Hat-based: # dnf in firefox
    • Arch: # pacman -S firefox
    • KernelTale@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      When I used to be on windows it was a bit of pain to install Firefox via WSL2. I probably had to install like X11 while at it. I also installed modded Minecraft. It ran fabulously at 2 FPS v 1.4.7

  • Hond@piefed.socialEnglish
    13·
    20 hours ago

    i think i never even used a terminal to install a browser and i dabbled with linux on and off for over a decade now. there was always a gui to install a browser. well, not on arch in 2014 but back then i never made it past a half broken desktop enviroment. so my point still stands technically.

  • wopalopa@lemmy.world
    31·
    18 hours ago

    im the most tech savvy in my household. compared to general people, im still a normie.

    my personal pc is linux based and whenever someone asked to use my pc for general purpose i have to do the terminal dance. now for some of you that may be easy but for me it’s annoying. not to mention that i have goldfish memory so i have to duckduckgo which dependancy i need, troubleshooting and look for dependancy just to make my vlc support certain kind of media or connecting apple device to the pc.

    im planning to distro hop to an easier one but im dreading to do the terminal dance all over again.

    worth mentioning, my kb Fx keys are unusable for almost a year now and i exhausted all possible way to fix it. my steam streaming also outputting blank screen. i just dont have the urge and will to fix it

    • Ephera@lemmy.ml
      1·
      16 hours ago

      my kb Fx keys are unusable for almost a year now and i exhausted all possible way to fix it.

      Unusable as in nothing at all happens, or do they do things like volume up/down when you press them?

      If the latter, there may be an “FnLock” key combination you have to press. Usually, it’s something like Fn+Esc. Or Fn + whatever key has a lock symbol or “FnLock” written on it…

      • wopalopa@lemmy.world
        3·
        16 hours ago

        its the latter. the fn thing doesnt work as the fn key doesnt register input. my initial asumption is that because my kb is on apple format and i couldnt change it to windows because it requires me to press the fn key (iqunix f96)

        • Ephera@lemmy.ml
          4·
          12 hours ago

          This sounds exactly like your problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269796

          It’s quite a lot of detailed technology talk, which I don’t expect you to understand. The main takeaway should be this:

          So the problem is [temporarily] solved by running: rmmod hid_apple

          This command unloads a driver that’s potentially interfering here. The driver will be loaded again on next reboot.
          Which is useful, because you can just try it out and if it doesn’t work (or if it breaks something), you can just do a reboot and everything is back to normal.

          You will need admin/root permissions to run this command, so the real command you need to run is: sudo rmmod hid_apple
          It will ask you for your login password to confirm running the command.

          If that does fix it, then we can look into making it permanent.

        • punkfungus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          14 hours ago

          That just sounds like your keyboard is broken. Your keyboard switching its own functions does not involve the OS