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      4 months ago

      That comment about their security updates is a couple of months old. Zen has made significant changes to how they handle releases to stay up to date with Firefox, some of which were mentioned in the thread.

      The Nix package is functional. Nixpkgs sometimes chooses not to add beta software that is receiving very frequent updates, especially if the package takes a lot of resources to build. In those cases, it makes more sense for the package to be maintained outside Nixpkgs for the time being. NixOS users can get Zen from this Flake, which patches the official binary. COSMIC Desktop is another example of this.

      Pages not looking sharp sounds like it’s probably a font or scaling issue.

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      4 months ago

      I concur. I don’t want stylish. I want functional, compliant and for it not to harvest my fucking data. All that fucking flair and visual wankery can get in the bin if it’s not gonna do the essentials.

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      4 months ago

      With an opinionated way of how to navigate the internet, it’s maybe the most important app you can use

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    Zen browser is my daily browser since many months now. Most of your fair criticisms I have solved with Zen Mods and playing around in the settings.

    The Widewine limitation is really why I will always keep another browser to fall back to: I recently discovered that all of Udemy is non-playable in Zen.

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    4 months ago

    Been my daily driver for a WHILE now. Works fine for most things. Every now and then I run into some oddities.

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    Cool to see a possible replacement for Arc coming up now that The Browser Company put it aside. I loved it’s way of kind of forcing you to use a single window, but multiple instances of it, as well as Little Arc. Will keep monitoring Zen to see how it develops.

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    Been using it for a while, I like it, but they do push out some questionable updates every now and then. Bugs I can understand, but forcing design changes on people aren’t great. Calling out the new tab change they made, I ended up changing a setting to deactivate it. Right now it’s my preferred browser, but I’m still open to looking into alternatives (Mac/Linux).

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      Like the other person said, beta software is expected to go through pretty large design changes. It’s not a matter of “forcing it on the user” it’s a matter of “my software isn’t ready yet, I’m not certain what my vision is, and if you’re not willing to put up with me figuring out what I want out of this software then wait for it to release and I’ll keep it stable from there”

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      It’s in beta, so large changes are to be expected. I don’t think it’s fair to blame them for design changes right now.

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      It’s still a beta, I think it’s unfair to complain about drastic changes until it comes out