Post #2514897
2025-09-14 16:59 UTC
Replies (23)
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@SemenovSherin@social.vivaldi.net 2025-09-14 17:10
@jon@social.vivaldi.net Welcome to the family. I'm here only because of Vivaldi community. What about distro and DE?
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@TritTriton@shelter.moe 2025-09-14 17:15
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net I did it 10 years ago (even before Vivaldi was released in its first Stable version!), I never regretted it as a daily driver OS.
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@Flaky@furry.engineer 2025-09-14 17:37
@jon@social.vivaldi.net Unfortunately there’s still some stuff where I’ll need Windows (VR gaming is one; my headset’s Linux drivers are in veeeery early development), so I’ve got a dual boot going, maybe I’ll do a VM or spare laptop with Windows as well.
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@epp@social.vivaldi.net 2025-09-14 17:49
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Been using #Linux since 2003. Began to use Linux - and only Linux, once support for Windows 7 ended.
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@Netux@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-09-14 18:58
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net does that mean that we'll get passkeys to integrate more smoothly so I don't have to tap my phone 4 times to get through the steps?
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@tinmouth@infosec.exchange 2025-09-14 19:39
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net i need to bite the bullet and get this done. I've put up with win since '98 through XP and 7 which were all agreeable enough. But this latest nonsense.. needs to go.
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@luisteixeira@social.vivaldi.net 2025-09-14 23:02
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net welcome. I did it for a 10 years. The best part is the simplicity, the only way to have what you need installed. Windows for a long time I do not feel the need it for my life. So I looking forward to see, the way you will improve of Vivaldi in open source.
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@exitcode@fosstodon.org 2025-09-15 03:37
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Solus would be also a good choice as it has Vivaldi in the repo :blobcatwink:
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@smyru@social.vivaldi.net 2025-09-15 09:56
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net on FreeBSD would be even more unixy… 🙂
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@paninodesu@mastodon.social 2025-09-15 10:35
@jon@social.vivaldi.net Good to know, but what "Linux" exactly? After years of experience, and pain, I recently discovered that Debian/Ubuntu based distros aren't as good as believed. I'm on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and not only every works and works better, there even a lot of graphical tools to mess with the system!
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@RenderB@social.vivaldi.net 2025-09-15 10:47
@jon@social.vivaldi.net The moment we stopped being paying customers and became nothing but the product, while still paying for our licenses, is when M$ shot themselves squarely in the foot. They aren't even offering a paid opt out with some "pay 50 extra for full control over my own machine" version of windows. Even on *pro* versions there is only so much you can do with 3rd party tools+group policies. Forcing "ai" down our throats isn't helping either.
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@tchambers@indieweb.social 2025-09-15 14:12
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net I love the MacOS, but frankly even so, mostly it's a thin layer of operating system and I almost always am using one form of web app or another for 90 percent of my work. Might try reforming an old laptop to some version of LinuxOS just to experiment. What desktop environment did you use?
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@tokenizer@fosstodon.org 2025-09-15 14:54
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net This is the way! I suggest looking into distrobox if you have not done so yet. I like it a lot, as it allows me to keep my base system light.
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@dawid@vebinet.com 2025-09-15 15:20
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Welcome to Linux family, Jon!
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@Fingel@indieweb.social 2025-09-15 15:52
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net lots of opinions in this thread. No matter what you choose, it doesn’t really matter. Congrats on the upgrade!
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@sparekonto@social.vivaldi.net 2025-09-15 16:32
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net ohh congratz on the move Jon! Have a wish for that step to, but fear I will miss a lot from my macOS and Apple HW. Was tinkering a lot with Linux from -95 to 2008 before I jumped to macOS.
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@tux0r@layer8.space 2025-09-15 19:02
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net I wonder: why Linux instead of an actual UNIX? Illumos, a free SysV UNIX, is out there, so are the BSDs :)
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@ekari@ieji.de 2025-09-15 19:43
@jon@social.vivaldi.net Welcome $HOME 🌻
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@AbaixoDeCao@social.vivaldi.net 2025-09-15 22:53
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Welcome to freedom!
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@Fer24@mast.lat 2025-09-15 23:03
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Welcome home!!
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@zbrando@social.vivaldi.net 2025-09-16 07:16
@jon@social.vivaldi.net Please post your feelings vs. Windows and if you use a laptop how is the battery life.
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@MarcusAnthonyCyganiak@mastodon.social 2025-09-21 19:13
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net If I wanted to get on Linux, what machine should I use? For context, I’m currently on the M4 iMac and M4 MacBook Air. I’m not expecting a match in specs with my Macintosh computers, but something high-quality and more premium than the average computer with Linux would be great.
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@ant123@social.vivaldi.net 2025-10-30 11:06
@jon@social.vivaldi.net @ruario@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net Font rendering is too faint/gray on Linux due to a longstanding improper gamma correction in chromium. Simple fix: build Vivaldi with changed parameters: "SK_GAMMA_EXPONENT=2.2", "SK_GAMMA_CONTRAST=0.0" in skia/Build.gn This problem has been mentioned by many Linux users but no action has been taken. Interestingly, Opera on Linux is the only chromium-based browser to get this right (last time I checked). Maybe now you are using Linux you could ask the Vivaldi team to change this?