Yeah, even less nerdy people hate that. I've had friends who aren't well-versed in fediverse/Linux culture complain about ROM hacks in particular doing this.
I keep seeing that yellow Totoro everywhere.
tbh this is a general issue with the fediverse. Some instances aren't transparent about who is being blocked and why. It made it a whole lot more difficult for me to figure out what instance I should go for.
and if Firefox is about giving the user a choice, if they want it to look like Opera, why stop them?
Does Librewolf present itself differently or use a different user agent altogether? I could see Librewolf presenting itself as Chromium as a privacy measure and people are saying changing the user agent fixes the issue.
EDIT: I've seen this happen on Safari for macOS. Someone at Apple is certainly snitching to their higher-ups, lol.
Yeah, I'd shove Pacman up my ass... wait you were talking about the package manager?
Sometimes I wonder what the big hold-up was. I remember NVIDIA wanted one type of renderer while the rest working on Wayland went the other way.
Did the same to me but with Samsung Wallet lmao
IIRC, Valve has said in the past that they're willing to support other devices. In fact, GPD had said that they were in contact with Valve to bring support to their devices.
Some motherboards will actually try to install software when you install Windows. Recent ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards are known for this, however with ASUS I know you can disable it (source: own an ASUS motherboard, there's an option to disable the installation of Armory Crate)
I used it after getting frustrated with the AUR. Never looked back unless the package wasn't on Flatpak or had an AppImage.