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NixOS calamares [maintainer=@vlinkz]
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Replace Firefox with Brave #10

Closed kennystrawnmusic closed 2 years ago

kennystrawnmusic commented 2 years ago

There are a few key privacy-oriented features Brave has but Firefox doesn’t, chiefly among them being:

As mentioned by DistroTube a few times, Brave is a much better option than FF for this and a few other reasons. Makes a lot more sense, therefore, to consider it as a viable Firefox alternative.

mweinelt commented 2 years ago

I'm opposed to leaving our users with a browser that we don't even build from source, that is not well maintained and often outdated. It is also problematic that brave is only available on x86_64-linux.

FD: I maintain firefox in nixpkgs.

vlinkz commented 2 years ago

The config here is based on that made by nixos-generate-config. By default it suggests firefox as the default browser, so that's what I selected here. So if you want to suggest this change I would say make an issue/pr on the nixpks git, however I don't think many people would support that at this time. As for the software centers (63c8c97 and 468f3ab), currently they will not work out of the box on NixOS, it's an area that I hope to be able to improve in the future, although proving to be a challenge (see vlinkz/nixos-appstream for my current attempts). But in the current state they are completely broken (other than installing flatpaks).

mweinelt commented 1 year ago

That proposal certainly didn't age well.

https://brave.com/private-search-ads/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33819132