Browsers are bloat.
-- average Arch userAs an arch user, I’m confused… Doesn’t everyone use curl as their browser?
I recently switched to netcat, this lets me control the TCP stream more directly.
Not related to Arch, but behold Richard Stallmann describing how he uses the internet: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html (see section “How I use the internet” and the other section below that with the same title).
In fact, what I use is Maté (an English way of writing the Spanish word Mate).
As a Spanish speaker I’d just like to say
A: wtf is this even supposed to mean?
B: mate and maté are two entirely different words.
C: The mate desktop environment is named after hierba mate, no é.
Imagine not enjoying the internet via curl
OS ships with a browser.
Boo!
OS ships with a browser.
Yay!
It’s not “shipping with a browser” that was ever the problem.
your OS ships with a browser.
Boo!
my OS ships with a browser.
Yay!
But edge is chrome.
As a former edge user. I now use Firefox.
You install something that at the core is the same as you but with a better interface.
It’s funny how Microsoft just gave up on creating a new web browser and instead just rebranded someone else’s homework.
It’s what they do best, but it usually involves buying a company.