Jon S. von TetzchnerSep 14, 2025

I have finally moved over to Linux as my primary platform. In many ways it is like coming home, as I loved working on UNIX machines in the past. Of course, I have been using Linux as a secondary OS for a long time, but I finally made the switch. Microsoft cancelling Windows 10 and the direction Windows 11 is going was just too much for me.

@ruario helped the transition, by making it easy for me to work with multiple concurrent @Vivaldi installs.
That is a must for me as I test a lot of builds at the same time.

#Windows #Linux #computing #Technology #AI #Vivaldi

Show threadexitcodeSep 15, 2025
@jon @ruario @Vivaldi Solus would be also a good choice as it has Vivaldi in the repo 
Show threadRuarí ØdegaardSep 15, 2025

@exitcode Yes well, being in the repos or not will not matter too much as @jon runs internal builds for the most part and would therefore likely use the installer I made for him (hence his comment '…work with multiple concurrent @Vivaldi installs', something native packages would not do). 😉

https://social.vivaldi.net/@ruario/115192460685059386

Ruarí Ødegaard (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Let me just upgrade my Vivaldi browser. I am using Ubuntu here, so of course I download the rpm. On double clicking it from the download panel it launches into an ncurses based installer that looks like it is straight from DOS, no authentication password is asked for. It defaults to the install location `~/Vivaldi-Builds/stable` (but I could of course change that). After it is done I just restart Vivaldi and there you go, new version. Easy! For those of you running Windows or macOS, this is the normal install method for all software on Linux. 🙃 #VivaldiBrowser #Linux

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Show threadRuarí Ødegaard

@exitcode That said, always nice to support/use a distro that supports us 😉

@jon @Vivaldi

Sep 15, 2025 at 8:35amWeb