While FF's evil quotient has been on the rise, Brave definitely isn't a better option. If anything, librewolf is the way to go.

How is brave the lesser of those two evils?

“Mozilla has a bit been shady lately, so we are making the difficult decision to change our default browser to something significantly more shady. We are confident our users will feel safer knowing their data is in even worse hands than before"

That's a clown makeup moment for Zorin OS

I'm actually not familiar with this distro. But if I installed a Linux distro, and it had brave installed. I would immediately switch.

They should've picked LibreWolf which ships with uBlock Origin. Brave is a disappointing choice because it supports multi-level marketing pyramid schemes which says enough about their moral compass.

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Brave marketing has gone crazy to convince people it's less dodgy than Firefox. Come on!

Seems like a strange choice. If anything i would've expected them to just use a firefox fork or something.

Firefox is bad, Brave is evil. Why did they decide switching is a good idea?

That's gonna be a no from me, dawg

"we replaced the browser with ad ware, that we even admit we had to ship settings to minimise its malware effect"

one of the worst distros ever so I guess this is pretty obvious choice and telling to some.

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A bad move. But again i hate that many distros have a default browser and they don't let you choose.

Boo

I feel like if they were gonna go chromium, they should have gone with Vivaldi. It may not be open source but it's not doing a crypto scam. Waterfox would have also been a good choice, probably better because it's Gecko.

The distro sucks anyway. They ship really fucking old packages, even more so than Debian or other stable distros.

Not sure why they don't just ship Firefox with extensions like uBlock pre-installed

Edit: it looks like they're heavily tweaking Brave regardless. I doubt this move was for technical reasons

Wow, never recommending zorin to anyone again. Switching from gecko to chromium is a dumb move.

the everyday linux distro that is famous for asking people for money for their pro version, cause they know most of the userbase is coming from windows and doesnt know that everything is free?

Maybe this was not supposed to have been posted until April fool's day. Silly Zorin was too early for the joke.