Opensuse uses this installer now, too. I liked yast more.

It's wild that you can install and run an operating system from a USB. WHoa. Loving it.

I was using Firefox but it was taking FOREVER to launch it. I switched to EDGE. If FIREFOX every gets as fast as ALL the others I will switch back to Firefox. WAKE UP FIREFOX before you croak!

Not good installer, can't install without internet connection..

i only use windows 10 pro for games don't work on Linux

At about 2 minutes. Thank you for explaining the differences between enabling a root user vs skipping it and the regular user without sudo.

I use Firefox & Duckduck Go, and yes, in Europe we do have a choice of search engines.... On my Android, I only have Google search, I've disabled Chrome, just because. I find Firefox unusable on my phone. Honestly, I rarely use my phone to search anything other than Rotten Tomatoes, or similar. Anything important is done on Linux with FF or ZEN, and Duckduck Go or Wikipedia, depending on what I'm looking for. Yeah, I think forcing Google to sell Chrome is incredibly ignorant and stupid!

On Linux Mint i use, FF, BRAVE, OPERA AND LIBREWOLF

What about floorp?

I moved over to Ubuntu for AI/ML, and I will never go back to Windows. Bash forever!

This is ridiculous. Be true to you concerns with Google, and go after a real monopoly, Microsoft!!!

I recently built a HTPC and put Linux Mint on it to try it out. There were quite a few snags, but there are a lot of helpful videos and forum posts, and now I'm happy with it. I plan on converting my main PC into a dual drive/boot soon. Hopefully more people try out Linux, esp. as Win 10 ends and the used market gets flooded with PCs that won't run Win 11.

IF we as consumers should be able to block PH, we should also have the option - to easily block any and all ads, period, no matter where we happen to be. After all, I consider most ads just as obnoxious and potentially dangerous, especially on a mobile device or tablet.

I am watching you on Firefox and LMDE, so thanks for that, just need to change my Google phone now to another operating system, I do use Google but with DuckDuckGo t search.

this doesn't work if you have wifi

I come back to the video to comment again. Just after watching and commenting on this, I get an ad on KZbin : "Passez à Chrome sur votre téléphone" by Google France.

I think at first use of an OS you should be provided with choices for your web browser, it could be defined as a number, 5 or 7 options, from different web engines as well. With your first experience of a web browser, you should have to choose from several default search engines as well. To finish, I think when you buy a computer (desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone <- which are "pocket telephonic computers" too) it should be mandated that manufacturers and sellers always offer the option to purchase it free of any programs or OS. You could buy a PC with Windows pre-installed, or the same with nothing installed with equal ease, and the logic would be that the blank one is cheaper. Those who think it's intimidating to install your own OS and programs always have the choice of a pre-installed one, but all those adventurous enough, or with special needs and requirements would be equally happy to have more choices. Poorer people like students etc could save some money on software in exchange of some time and (rewarding) effort. In general terms it would help the population escape the "magic boxes" ideology and acquire some skills for the greater good.

I first got into Linux many years ago when getting into virtual pipe organ software. puppy Linux was the first distro I used. I had used UNIX before when working in computer networking so it was not totally foreign. Before long I was using Ubuntu studio for everything.

Maybe Mozilla once they lose their google money could go back to doing what they are supposed to be doing. As soon as the big money leaves so will the utterly useless corporate management leeches as there won't be any more blood to suck. Then what's left of the foundation can get to work making a browser and other tools people actually want.

I have said this before on many platforms: goofle is ***not*** a search engine, it is an advertising platform prioritizing advertisers so they get better placement in the search rankings,

CINSE Chrome Is Not a Search Engine

Finally, this point is brought into conversation. The question i have, is if browsers defaulted to a different search engine, does the average user have the basic inquisitiveness/drive to change it to Google?

Elon Musk is NOT respecting of free speech. He has even said himself that ideologies he disagrees with will have freedom of speech but not freedom of reach. Not exactly something a free speech absolutist would say.

Truth be told you have to extensively set up your browser if you want to break free from F.A.N.G. You gotta change the search engine on basically every browser besides Brave. Having the Linux Foundation manage the Chromium browser seems like the best option. Moreover, they could force big tech to offer other search engines in an initial pop up at set up. Ultimately people will just choose Google I assume. There's literally a word in Russian "Гуглить" (Googlit'), which means to search something in a browser (any browser).

I pay for Kagi just so I can search with no ads. I run GrapheneOS in my smartphone and I put Kagi app in my phone. Granted, I use my Linux machine a lot more and I don't use a smartphone that much while at home.

The DOJ wouldn’t be that stupid, right…? I saw this as seeing an attacker coming in with weapons in their hands, so they shot at the legs. I never thought they thought the legs are “also arms, just going down to the ground.”

Force them to spin it off into a not for profit

Of course they don't think Chrome is a search engine. But, as with Android, the DOJ thinks Chrome is one of the biggest ways in which Google entrenches its search and advertising monopoly.

LOL, thought I had a dead pixel

Not only is it not a search engine it's also open source with lots of forks.

No. DuckDuckGo is in Google's pocket. Yandex is the only search engine that has organic results. DDG has bias just as Google does.

I'm a student with City College of San Francisco and it's required to use Google Chrome depending on your instructor which I don't care for this web browser and too bad we couldn't use Linux!

Thanks bro 👍🏾🇳🇿

the longer I look at the situation with Chrome being forced to sell off, the more I think, yes, it should happen, but dang, Google sure did a good job at making this a turn that will hurt everyone in the process. To be honest, I think Android and Chrome shouldn't be their market. They are dominant because of that ad money. I bought a phone and had zero say in getting an advertising ID that I didn't want. I know how to change defaults, but everyone I hear "what web browser do you use." It's always "Google" to the standard user. No one is winning out of this, and unless they force sell it to a non-profit that actually stays non-profit and dissociated with Google, nothing will change.

Sell off both the Chrome browser and Google search. Then just call the company Alphabet.

So, What if Microsoft bought Chrome and let Google run it? They stick together.

Maybe all browsers should be forced allow any search engine the user wants, like how in Firefox you can under the search preferences where you type the website link and use %s to denote the search term. Option to let user select their preferred search engine on install is a good idea as well, but I’d suspect people will for the most part stick to using Google Search anyway

Musk commited to free speech? You mean the speech he agrees with? All that right wing, Kremlin propaganda and lies, fascist rhetoric inciting violence, but try criticising him and your account gets restricted? Really?

pov : duck duck go chrome : duck duck goole 😂😂

They (Google) were forced to stop paying other companies to use the Google web browser by default....

Could you imagine creating and uploading this snarky, self-aggrandizing video completely unaware of how how clueless you are? I'd be too embarassed to ever show my face again but I guess some people just aren't capable of feeling shame.

Echos of the clinton prosecution of microsoft, crippled by the government agents not understanding the technology, nor how it was abused.

Boomerism

Technically it is a search engine because if you type in anything into the search bar (yes google calls it that). you end up at google. unless you change it (which they were sued in the past to be forced to allow other search providers who also have enough money to pay google for that) And google was spying on everyone with incognito mode when they said publicly it didn't track you it actually did. So yes Chrome is an extension of Google's Search Engine.

Not to mention that Google was trying to ruin everyone's KZbin experience few times as well.

Not only does Google give money to Mozilla, but they also provide Firefox with Googles Widevine DRM. This allows streaming service like Netfix, Paramount+, Hulu, and others to work through the Firefox web browser. I have not found another web browser for Linux that does this.

I strongly disagree with the "can't find a good president" comment. We just voted in the best president in my lifetime. By far! Back on topic, I switched from chrome to Zen and Floorp. People are still using android in 2024? 😆

I miss the days before search was integrated into address bar. I always do my searches from a search engine homepage of my choice, but I'm still forced to declare a "default search engine", as if I should even need one.

If you type anything but a correct address in the address field it becomes a search engine (even if correct address it probably still pings and does a search).

with your newly elected idiocracy about to be inaugurated , don't be surprised when they ban chromium (the shiny electroplating)