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TBH, I prefer appimage over flatpaks because appimages are easy to store and backup.

They also tend to not autoupdate, which is good for security (autoupdates are a conduit for a malicious party to push out malicious updates) and making sure you get to keep the version you want (in case a free, open source program gets acquired by some shitty company who then decides to put telemetry and paywalls in a update).

    brent

    Even if you don't have a Raspberry Pi, you can still run your own PiHole VPN on Oracle Cloud (or any other VPS you want). The PiHole tracks whats blocked and not, so it can also help you track potential new trackers.

    The added benefit of running it in the cloud is you can use your PiHole VPN almost anywhere... without having to rely on your potentially slower home network.

    https://github.com/FanboyStudios/PiHole-Wireguard-VPN_on_Oracle-Cloud-Platform-Free-Tier

    The link above is to my (currently incomplete, work in progress) guide on setting up a PiHole VPN on Oracle Cloud's Always Free Tier.

      FanboyStudios I hate KDE also. I've been distrohopping on a spare drive this past week or so. With distros running KDE, I'm able to easily run into bugs and get crashes just setting it up how I "kinda" want it.

      A question if you don't mind. Did you suffer any bugs and crashes with Solus KDE? I admit I don't customize KDE Plasma very much, and maybe that's the reason I have experienced no crashes, and very few bugs.

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          joluveba I ran into bugs with KDE. It's not just on Solus OS, but KDE distros in general.
          I do have crappy NVIDIA though, and do try to customize the DE with the built-in options.

            2 years later

            Firefox, Librewolf, Zen and Tor all in that order

            Chromium on Solus and Zorin.
            Firefox in Windows as it seems nice and snappy.

            I've been using Vivaldi for a long time ago, probably since 2015. However, I am currently testing Zen Browser and it's a very pleasant surprise because it work very well.

            JoshStrobl I was a browser hopper, but over the years it went from Chrome -> Opera -> Firefox -> Edge -> Vivaldi -> Back to Firefox

            Firefox is my preferred personal browser, and Edge is for working on my school assignments.

              Brave is for personal use. Chromium flatpak for work.

              joluveba I've been using Solus Plasma since beta on all my devices. The only bugs I've ever encountered were the shutdown bugs. Ex: update, try to restart from the GUI and it errors and doesn't shut down, can only shut down/restart from terminal, then it's fine. Have yet to have this bug in the Plasma 6 though, hoping they squashed it for good.

                I don't have a favorite web browser, but Firefox is the one hate the least. The same with email user agents and Thunderbird.