• foremanguy@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    Mistral --> pseudo-open-source

    Linux --> not relates to Europe (but amazing choice)

    Vivaldi --> only source available

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      31 minutes ago

      It is not only about being european but also about being digitally sovereign

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    From Wikipedia of Qwant:

    Restructuring

    In May 2019, Qwant announced that it would migrate its servers to an infrastructure based on Microsoft Azure, and also keep some of its indexing capacity on its infrastructure.[22]

    Not only that, but they base their results almost entirely off of MS Bing.

    So idk, but not that european other than data privacy.

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      3 hours ago

      Now it is working together with Ecosia on an Europan Search engine

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    Is using a fork of something really an actual solution? It’s still enabling the dominance of the original corporation.

    I dunno, maybe it is, but it sure doesn’t seem like it to me

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    I’ve been using Vivaldi more and more. Been aware of it for years, even used it back in beta. It’s almost too kustomizable. It boarders on being an OS with how much is built in.

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        11 hours ago

        I agree, but knowing it’s from Norway makes me feel more comfortable with the idea of using it than if it was made in the US…. (And I’m American…)

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    both Qwant and Ecosia are working with Microsoft. Not so European.

    Monocles is SearX, which basically is boogle, bing &c behind a shroud. Like Leta also is.

    Mojeek is the only “European” alternative, it seems

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      8 hours ago

      Okay, so go on… instead of only listing negatives, what are the alternatives to each of these that you use?

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        Librewolf is already listed. There are unfortunately no good alternatives to Windows and ChatGPT or Gemini.

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          Librewolf is just some customized FF variation, so it’s from USA at the core. Same as Vivaldi, of course.

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          If there isn’t a good replacement for windows, then we can clearly say in your opinion, there are no good operating systems.

          So why not support the concept you believe in most?

          Because right now it sounds like you’re just making excuses for Microsoft.

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          What Linux distros did you try, though? Some are explicitly less user-friendly than others. Also, how about Llama?

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        It’s awesome for software devs, sys admins, tinkerers. But that’s it. Most distros still have too many issues for me to recommend it to every Windows user.

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          What issues? And does Linux have more issues than Windows or different ones?

          Often Windows has more issues, people have just gotten used to dealing with them.