u/pep1n1llo

I know you all know r/unixporn. Wouldn't it be wonderful if there was a store where one could choose between hundreds of styles of GUI? Not only to switch colors, accents and icons, but also where things are displayed and how. That way you could imitate idk Gnome's minimalism, macos whatever they have, windows chaos, plasma's ultra chaos, and so on.

With CosmicDE ditching all that legacy baggage and going full Rust with a declarative UI library like Iced, I wonder if we’re sitting on a massive opportunity to reach a perfect environment for easy casual ricing out of the box. Is this possible on a forseeable future or is it highly complicated to ensure everything works with one click on every machine and across updates despite its declarative core?

And she’s liking it so far.

After Chrome's 4GB AI privacy scandal, I suggested she try a different web browser. She made the big switch from IE to Chrome back in the day and didn't realize there were more than five browsers to choose from nowadays. I use Zen and Vivaldi, my friends use Brave, and my father uses Edge. There were plenty of options, but the final decision came down to Brave vs. Vivaldi. The latter won out because its features suited her better (integrated calendar and mail over a crypto wallet and video chat).

Right now, she's busy customizing it. Would you be interested in a report on her final experience?

As a privacy nerd, I’d love for Vivaldi to be open-source and a Firefox fork, but as a productivity enthusiast, I also know its limits.

Anyway, thank you for this fantastic tool! The hiding UI is a really great improvement.

Edit: You know what I couldn't find? A lignt introductory video to Vivaldi listing all its features so she knows where she's gettin into.