Ah, it’s a shame that we can’t just have cool software. But such is the world now, it seems. I’m honestly a bit surprised at there being much of that in FOSS, I thought it was really quite commie-coded, but it seems every second project I think is interesting is somehow problematic.

I’m on Hyprland at the moment, which I’ve heard a couple things about, including in that article, but I’m looking at Niri. Are they less controversial?

Why do you say other than ladybird?

None of that is chromium. Vivaldi could have built that on top of Firefox, but didn’t. As to why Firefox is better, the very fact that it’s an alternative that is keeping up technically is a benefit. It’s less a ‘V-shaped engine’ monopoly and moreso a ‘V8 engine made by a specific company’ monopoly. They have far too much control over the direction of web standards. Much of what they are doing is actually good, but it should then be spread based on merit, rather than because they directly control almost the entire market.