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great. we came one step closer to the great wall of china
I liked the real Opera, but you killed it. I don’t want that new thing.
Have you tried Vivaldi? Co-founded by one of the Opera Software co-founders, so perhaps not a surprise that it feels a little bit like classic Opera. I liked it a lot, but I have since switched to Firefox because I want to support the non-Chromium options while they exist.
I have, and I have abandoned it for the same reasons as you.
thanks for saying this; i want to stay out of the chromium eco-sphere and didn’t know if opera became another chromium clone like everything else has become.
I can’t imagine anyone wants this.
They should’ve released this 5 years ago because now I don’t want it. Zen browser is pretty frickin sweet. FOSS FTW!
i don’t remember anyone asking for this
❤️🔥🦊
Not for me, but if it makes someone’s transition from Windows easier, alright 🤷
Fuck Opera. Absolutely not. They can go right back out of Linux.
All major software ports to Linux are good to have. But yes fuck them.
Now you can choose to not use it instead of not being able to!
I do like choices. Especially easy ones.
bro 😭
I clicked on the post thinking “do we even care?” and this is the first comment I see
Yeah, I was using vivaldi before switching to Zen browser (a firefox fork with the sidebar as I like it.) The only thing I cared for was about that UI change.
and now eric andre can jumpscare you from new and interesting places
I don’t use it and don’t plan on using it, but why would one really like to use it?
It spends money on advertising so people are convinced its good at something
It has some neat features like a sidebar, built in adblocker and customization features. I also would never use it but I think it’s a good sign that Linux is being taken serious as a platform
Pretty sure Vivaldi has all of that. And they where on Linux from the start.
More Chromium. Yay.
Maybe now I can approach the issue of getting Gamemaker Studio working on my Linux machine again. They insist on using that stupid browser to license verify for reasons that seem completely arbitrary to me. I wasn’t able to get the searched for workarounds to work on my end due to this browser so I hit a wall.
If a engine would force me to use a specific chrome based browser I would switch the engine…
That sounds like hell my friend.
It’s only to verify my license. Don’t need to use it otherwise unless I want to post the projects I make on their itch.io clone storefront, which I don’t. I have windows dual booted on its own harddrive so I’ve just been using it there. Would be nice to phase out windows on this use case without having to learn a new engine entirely.
I wont be using it but something I want to say is that it’s weird that it took this long. The normal version of Opera has been available on Linux for a very long time now, I don’t know exactly how long but it’s been at least since prior to May 15, 2001, from what I could find (I saw a claim that it was released for Linux in Dec 31,1997, but there’s no proof). Ever since the release of Opera GX, there was a lot of discussion about when/if GX would be available for Linux and, from what I understand, a lot of the people who used Opera on Linux wanted GX. I just don’t understand why it took them this long to release a Linux version.
Like I want chrome with more spyware. If I wanted that, I would glue a camera to my balls and livestream them 24/7.
