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Google Chrome is (finally) coming to ARM64 Linux (www.omgubuntu.co.uk)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

So what? Most people are using Linux for the privacy benefits. Does privacy sound like a good reason to use Chrome?

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  • [–] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I'm honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux. Turns out many people actually use Linux for the user experience and flexibility, and not for privacy.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    I’m honestly regularly shocked at how many people use Chrome on Linux.

    I generally prefer to run firefox (ESR) on my debian machines. But I regularly open a couple dozen tabs during a research session and sometimes FF eats eat all my RAM (16GB), then swap, then locks up the machine. If I catch the degradation before lockup sometimes I can kill enough tabs to recover. I had a few of those lockups last month before I got tired of it.

    So for now I've swapped back to chromium to get around that problem. Same behavior on my part, ~same extensions, but chromium's RAM usage stays sane.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Most people are using Linux for the privacy benefits

    citation needed

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