[kwlug-disc] Leading Linux Distros going to remove Chromium from their Official Repositories

[CrankyOldBugger]

For Teams, I don't use the official client but instead I just a fork that
works well:  https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux


On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 at 22:02, Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc <
kwlug-disc at kwlug.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 10:37:32PM -0500, L.D. Paniak wrote:
> >
> > I never really understood chromium as it is...
> >
> > If I wanted Google in my browsing experience, I should use Chrome.
> > Otherwise, I thought chromium should be just a solid webkit/blink(?) web
> > browser free of any outside attachments.
> >
>
> I do not want Google or Chrome in my browsing experience, but I do
> (did) want Microsoft Teams for work. Teams has a Linux client that is
> terrible and in some ways unusable. Because Chromium was very similar
> to Chrome and Chrome is well supported, it worked well, whereas
> Firefox and Falkon did not.
>
> I do not like Chromium that much, and it is clear that Google is
> systematically murdering its competition (except for Edge?), but
> Chromium was the least worst way to get my work done. These days I am
> concerned that Chrome will go the AOSP route and systematically make
> its open source component more and more useless.
>
> - Paul
>
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