Discover is ok… If you limit it to only managing Flatpaks.

I’m not sure I’d ever trust a GUI to manage pacman/apt/dnf

I’m using an AMD APU, so just the regular mesa drivers.

The last time I had issues was about a year and a half ago, and I switched to Brave, but a year later (5 months ago) I was convinced to give Ungoogled Chromium another chance by someone here on lemmy (because of all the controversy surrounding Brave).

In the past I always used firefox because its customization features are so much richer, settings werent intrinsically tied to google (or amputated like in ungoogled), and the source code is more comprehensible (firefox is so neatly organized and easy to build yourself, and chromium is a giant mess under the hood).

I really want to use firefox again… maybe I’ll get a dell precision tower off ebay and shove a cheap old nvidia card in it with the proprietary drivers to solve my problems 😅

Youtube is especially egregious. I’ve tried various hardware acceleration settings and h264ify but it really brings my pc to its knees.

Im on linux, and when I run my windows vm (qemu kvm) with either Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, or Fusion 360 in it, firefox on my host machine runnimg youtube just barely pushes it over the edge.

I absolutely recognize how wild what I’m asking this little computer to do is, but I can just get away with it in chromium but not firefox (since the last time I checked)

The day I can do it all with firefox I will be a happy camper

Edit: also, I specifically said games but didn’t name one… FFXIV and Deadlock both crash if I’m running youtube in chrome (and Discord at the same time).

I absolutely agree. I’ll switch to firefox before I look at a single ad, but for now ungoogled chromium still supports full uBo

Yeah, of course ads aren’t an option, but ungoogled chromium still supports mv2 for now and I can’t watch a youtube video and play a video game at the same time with firefox on my machine…

Granted, I’m probably trying to make inadequate hardware do more than it should, but chromium works and I don’t want to upgrade my hardware right now.

Yes I’ve used a variety and rolled my own. Tbh the differences are difficult to measure

Performance like opening a link crashes another application like my vms or cad applications or VS or a game. The performance differences are relatively minor, but it really matters on crappy hardware

MV2 has always worked on ungoogled chromium, so I just use uBo. I agree with most folks that ads are not an option XD

I did my testing before the AI features were implemented, and I tested a variety of custom profile settings for firefox (and floorp and librefox) and custom chrome flags for ungoogled chromium (and brave)…

Granted, I was using benchmarks, but the differences are somewhere around 15-30% on my machine on Arch

Edit: These are the benchmarks I ran

I see a lot of comments (justifiably) touting firefox’s superiority… but the performance difference is night and day.

My main pc has very weak hardware, and my browser is the most resource intensive application I run. In my environment, I can’t leave firefox open with other heavy apps running simultaneously, but I can leave chrome open.

I’ve used firefox for decades in the past, but the gap is huge and it doesn’t look like Mozilla will make the engine changes necessary to close it. Idk if things have changed, but I remember when they axed the Servo team.

I’ve been using Ungoogled Chromium and I’m hoping this doesn’t affect me for a while… but if I have to choose between ads and closing my browser to run heavy apps, I guess I’ll be reinstalling firefox.

I’ve had matrix and element set up on my personal domain for a while, but I’ve only used them for evaluation so far. The system and network resources used are HUGE…

I’ve been setting up movim and a seperate xmpp server for a little while, and I have some initial opinions:

• xmpp (prosody) appears to be much better optimised than matrix (synapse)
• matrix and element are much easier to set up
• movim is a huge PITA to deploy yourself (especially in a container… you’re basically on your own at the moment)
• xmpp requires tcp ports and ssl certs that should be easy to set up… unless you’re on a cgnat network. Matrix can be set up through a cloudflare tunnel with https no problem, but xmpp requires some networking elbow grease.
• the mandatory certificates probably make the xmpp network safer?
• Even with the mautrix discord bridge copying the exact layout of discord channels into element, movim seems more familiar to me. I haven’t really had enough time to evaluate movim, but it seems like it’s trying to appeal to discord users, and element is clearly not. Element feels like a well funded enterprise tool that is doing its own thing.
• commet (with 2 m’s) chat is a very faithful discord clone for matrix, but it’s very barebones.

Either way, I am gonna deploy both and let my friends/discord channel users decide what works best.

I’m rooting for xmpp at the moment, but I will be happy with anything that is self hosted, encrypted and federated.

Hopefully I don’t end up having to maintain both protocols with a bridge!