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I'm in the market for a Linux friendly ultralight laptop to check web apps and run terminal, nothing fancier then that. Do any cheap systems exits these days? I was looking at a chrome book but apparently the mediatek chip doesn't play nicely with FOSS.

Any thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I use Brave pretty much just for that purpose, while I use Firefox to browse everything else.
There is Firefox PWA, but it feels like such a shitty hack (don't get me wrong, it's not badly made, but they're forced by the circumstances to make a setup process that is one big headache) that I'd rather have a browser that has official and solid support and it also doubles as my browser to test web content on Blink, so it's a win-win for me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea, I tried with Firefox PWA, but as you have told, it was not usable for me. Most PITA was, that I had to install my plugins on any PWA again and again.. I would love using a browser which is not chromium based but has nice PWA features.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you can try GNOME Web if you don't like Chromium, it should have them too, not sure how good the implementation is, though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems to work as I want 😃 thank you!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Problem is that Webapps require a very unhardened browser. Complete caching, cookies saved, serviceworkers in the background, so if Firefox got the feature hardening would break it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that kind of the point though? I'd appreciate the option, but I don't know how usable actual web apps would be without access to those things

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes of course. Thats why support would totally be possible, but it needs to be a seperate unhardened firefox profile. Then all good.