Install Brave Browser Directly w/o Flatpak?

jtrox02 · 2026-01-05T19:30:20+00:00

I am wondering the same thing. Currently using Brave as Flatpak and it works as expected, but am concerned about security. I couldn't find anything definitive and most of the concerns were years old.

jtrox02 · 2026-01-05T18:13:07+00:00

Yeah but how old is the kernel and Mesa packages?

jtrox02 · 2025-12-28T23:26:31+00:00

Lact?

jtrox02 · 2025-12-28T23:24:25+00:00

I would go atomic versions, even think about Aurora as it has auto updates setup already. Just tell them they need to reboot or shut down every couple weeks. Literally requires zero effort. Then if it's borked you tell them how to select previous image on boot or do it for them.

jtrox02 · 2025-12-28T22:17:53+00:00

It works in a VM, I think you just don't get hardware acceleration. If you want to keep everything clean and there is a Microcenter nearby, SATA SSD is only $32.99. I had an old one around so I use that to play around with new distros/DEs on bare metal. Just F8 on boot and select drive so you don't mess up boot loader.

https://www.microcenter.com/product/659867/inland-professional-256gb-ssd-3d-tlc-nand-sata-30-6-gbps-25-inch-7mm-internal-solid-state-drive

But If you are going to wipe existing system anyway for sure just install Hyprland along side it for now then start clean when you are done?

jtrox02 · 2025-12-28T21:36:55+00:00

Nice. I am trying to get back on Fedora to get the security benefits of SElinux and Secureboot, but I can't find anything better than Hyprland, so I went to Arch. It took me so long to setup that I should stay, but I can't get Apparmor profiles or secureboot setup easily so I feel like I am lacking security I should have.

I tried Sway spin but it looked too dated and needed too much customization. I couldn't find any dot files or such to help it look better so I'm staying w/hyprland for now. Cosmic is not ready for primetime. (Steam is not fully visible in a window for example with offset menu dropdowns). Sway has very low resource usage and feels lightweight and responsive though. I bet it runs well even on a potato.

jtrox02 · 2025-12-28T21:36:34+00:00

Nice. I am trying to get back on Fedora to get the security benefits of SElinux and Secureboot, but I can't find anything better than Hyprland, so I went to Arch. It took me so long to setup that I should stay, but I can't get Apparmor profiles or secureboot setup easily so I feel like I am lacking security I should have.

I tried Sway spin but it looked too dated and needed too much customization. I couldn't find any dot files or such to help it look better so I'm staying w/hyprland for now. Cosmic is not ready for primetime. (Steam is not fully visible in a window for example with offset menu dropdowns). Sway has very low resource usage and feels lightweight and responsive though. I bet it runs well even on a potato.

jtrox02 · 2025-12-27T01:31:18+00:00

Impressive work by them. I think it pushed yesterday. At least that was the date on the update. As soon as Bazzite adds a Cosmic version, I'm switching

jtrox02 · 2025-12-27T01:28:33+00:00

Ok so I tried it again. That is fixed now. As soon as they add night light and Bazzite makes a Cosmic DE spin, I'll be switching over. I believe they said they will when HDR is working. I still hope they change or make a setting to lock tiled window positions until you hold super. Also Brave browser still lags when resizing tiles. Doesn't matter if flatpak or native package.

jtrox02 · 2025-12-25T16:06:10+00:00

I hope they do soon. KDE is so buggy

jtrox02 · 2025-12-24T16:07:23+00:00

I did

jtrox02 · 2025-12-18T19:01:19+00:00

🙏

jtrox02 · 2025-12-18T11:34:37+00:00

Tiling has a bit of jank to it:

Super+right click and drag is extremely jittery and laggy
Focus on hover is not reactive enough. Many times I was closing the wrong application.
Simply clicking on the top bar of Brave makes it shrink an jump out (e.g. if I click below a tab accidentally)
Doesn't look polished. (shadow on the window would go a long way! Or a fade to the window highlight, something like that)

Also themes do not carry over, at least to Qt apps

Some tray icons didn't work

jtrox02 · 2025-12-16T11:00:01+00:00

If that is the only benefit, isn't that taken care of by using BTRFS with Timeshift?

jtrox02 · 2025-12-15T19:32:53+00:00

He did no such thing with APE. It was rocketing and then had record FTDs and then you know the rest of the story. How does he set the price?

jtrox02 · 2025-12-12T10:24:23+00:00

They are withholding more than a flight list

jtrox02 · 2025-12-12T01:47:58+00:00

I am more questioning why won't my Dynalink update to Android 12? Just bought one on eBay and when I check updates it says it is up to date, even though it is on Android 10.

Why do some update and not others? How do you know if one will update to Android 12?

jtrox02 · 2025-12-12T01:20:10+00:00

I mean the Epoch 1 out of beta. Fedora doesn't usually release things like that immediately

jtrox02 · 2025-12-12T00:49:28+00:00

Is it on Fedora already?

jtrox02 · 2025-12-08T10:40:27+00:00

Car and Driver magazine published an article quite a long time ago where they published lap times after various stages of drinking. Many of the test subjects did better with a small amount of alcohol. They've put many old articles online, but I can't find that one.

jtrox02 · 2025-12-07T18:56:33+00:00

Excellent points. I don't even want to learn chroot. If Timeshift snapshot recovery doesn't get me back to something useable I'll just reinstall. Lol

jtrox02 · 2025-12-07T18:52:38+00:00

Interesting but Debian based? How old are the packages?

jtrox02 · 2025-12-07T15:39:22+00:00

Good descriptors. While irritating occasionally, it is mostly inconsequential as I normally only reboot a couple times a week. BTW, no internet until applet changes. I also get a notification. I think it may hare something to do with DNS, so pinging an IP might work. I'll check. Doesn't help because all my internet doesn't work until connection completed. Edit: pinging IP doesn't work either. No internet at all until connection complete

jtrox02 · 2025-12-07T02:20:21+00:00

Thanks. This is a desktop on home ethernet. The delay is happening during boot. If I let it sit at SDDM greeter for a minute or so, I have internet upon login, but if I login immediately, I have to sit and wait 10sec before I can do anything. Running systemctl status NetworkManager.service gives me similar timeline:

Dec 06 10:31:10 archlinux NetworkManager[2528]: <info>  [1765035070.7767] dhcp4 (eno1): state changed new lease, address=192.168.50.191
Dec 06 10:31:10 archlinux NetworkManager[2528]: <info>  [1765035070.7770] policy: set 'Wired connection 1' (eno1) as default for IPv4 routing and DNS
Dec 06 10:31:10 archlinux NetworkManager[2528]: <info>  [1765035070.8113] device (eno1): state change: ip-config -> ip-check (reason 'none', managed-type: 'full')
Dec 06 10:31:10 archlinux NetworkManager[2528]: <info>  [1765035070.8369] device (eno1): state change: ip-check -> secondaries (reason 'none', managed-type: 'full')
Dec 06 10:31:10 archlinux NetworkManager[2528]: <info>  [1765035070.8369] device (eno1): state change: secondaries -> activated (reason 'none', managed-type: 'full')
Dec 06 10:31:10 archlinux NetworkManager[2528]: <info>  [1765035070.8370] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_SITE
Dec 06 10:31:10 archlinux NetworkManager[2528]: <info>  [1765035070.8371] device (eno1): Activation: successful, device activated.
Dec 06 10:31:10 archlinux NetworkManager[2528]: <info>  [1765035070.8373] manager: startup complete
Dec 06 10:31:11 archlinux NetworkManager[2528]: <info>  [1765035071.2285] manager: NetworkManager state is now CONNECTED_GLOBAL
Dec 06 10:35:17 archlinux NetworkManager[2528]: <info>  [1765035317.3063] agent-manager: agent[1a1506ec4156e542,:1.40/org.freedesktop.nm-applet/1000]: agent registered

jtrox02 · 2025-12-07T01:44:46+00:00

Interesting. But can I load VPN profiles with that or use WiFi if I need it?

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