As a Linux desktop user, web apps are very much welcome. Apps like Photopea and Adobe's new Photoshop web app are things that make the Linux desktop much more viable as a platform.
Some points on why I switched from Firefox to Chrome:
- It "failed" while trying to use Google Meet for work. I don't remember the details of the incident, but it was embarrassing enough that it made me switch, at least for work stuff
- No Chromecast support
- Buggier than Chrome in general: last I remember was an issue with page scaling when printing
- No desktop integration of PWAs (i.e. launcher icon, standalone window). This is what I missed the most as a Linux desktop user.
- Worse performance than Chrome, at least on Android. Firefox was freezing often and even causing my phone to... restart randomly. This is unacceptable.
Your comment sparked my curiosity about this bug, which I vaguely remember reading about a few years ago. Apparently, it wasn't a bug in the EXT4 filesystem, but rather in a kernel component called blk-mq.
Just less frequently. Also, we should agree on what those "issues" are, really. Beside the lack of popular commercial applications on Linux, the existing, open source variants, are often inferior if not frustrating.
What do you think about using vim emulation in VSCode?
For me it seems impossible to be productive without the ecosystem of extensions VSCode provides.
I am intrigued by the power of modal editing, but going all-in vim seems a step back with regard do "modern" development workflows.
In vim it appears you have to configure every piece of it from scratch, while in VSCode if you pick a new language it's usually enough to install an extension and you're good to go.
Speaking of backdoors in popular open source libraries, the recent incident with xz is exemplary I think.