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That's a nice idea, but I'm hesitant to use automatic installation scripts like this, even if I review them carefully. I prefer manual steps – downloading the file, placing it in the correct directory. Also, I use custom profile directories for my web browsers, so this script wouldn't apply to my setup.


do you carefully review those files you've downloaded and placed into said correct directory, or do you just double click an YOLO your way through the install? at least a bash script allows for you to read it vs a pre-compiled binary installer. either way, you are trusting code created by someone else.


Honestly, I'm reacting a bit against the "YOLO" install culture common on Windows and macOS – just double-clicking and hoping for the best. I specifically use CachyOS, an Arch-based Linux distribution, because it emphasizes a more deliberate, package-managed approach. I prefer relying on the maintainers' work and pre-defined steps within packages whenever possible. It allows me to understand what is being installed and how it's being configured, rather than an all-in-one script potentially making changes I didn't anticipate.


Manual steps are linked to in the second sentence of the Getting Started section.


Not for Linux. I am using Linux on my desktop.


It does if you look into the README for Firefox

https://github.com/corbindavenport/just-the-browser/tree/mai...


Ah, it looks like they have Linux instructions for Firefox but not for Chrome or Edge. How odd.


Who uses Edge on Linux?


I do. I use it, alongside other browsers, because I prefer different browsers for different types of tasks.


I wish to use Graphene OS, but I can't force myself to buy a Pixel Phone, I don't like the design.


> it was too complex to maintain and Microsoft decided to take the easy road.

This is a common confusion. WSL1 is not deprecated, and both WSL1 and WSL2 continue to be developed and supported in parallel by Microsoft.

This is example of bad Microsoft marketing. Maybe they should have added a postfixes instead of numbers: "WSL-native" "WSL-VM" or something like that


> both WSL1 and WSL2 continue to be developed

I have had a 'Softie deny, in person to my face at the Ubuntu Summit, that any further development would occur on WSL1, in 2022.

So I have to call [[citation needed]] on that.


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