Darorad@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 11 months agoThis truly is the year of the linux desktoplemmy.worldimagemessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1959arrow-down110
arrow-up1949arrow-down1imageThis truly is the year of the linux desktoplemmy.worldDarorad@lemmy.world to linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 11 months agomessage-square95fedilink
minus-squareNix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21arrow-down1·11 months agoUnfortunately, due to the constant willful or untested shenanigans of various website I have set up all my system’s Firefox profiles to spoof by default its user agent (and other JavaScript properties) as Windows 11, x86_64, Firefox LTS (even if I use latest, Aurora or beta). Some blantant recent example: YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix Doing so has helped me and many friends/family I switched to a flavor of Linux (mostly Mint, but sometimes LMDE or Ubuntu or specific requirements/demands) avoid numerous dumb problems. Even on mobile sometimes UX breaking issues creep up.
Unfortunately, due to the constant willful or untested shenanigans of various website I have set up all my system’s Firefox profiles to spoof by default its user agent (and other JavaScript properties) as Windows 11, x86_64, Firefox LTS (even if I use latest, Aurora or beta). Some blantant recent example: YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems — misreporting as an x86 CPU appears to be a widespread browser fix
Doing so has helped me and many friends/family I switched to a flavor of Linux (mostly Mint, but sometimes LMDE or Ubuntu or specific requirements/demands) avoid numerous dumb problems.
Even on mobile sometimes UX breaking issues creep up.