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I mean... in some ways yeah? I have to run a dedicated Win10 box because native Office automation is a huge part of what I do. I've had to go to lengths to get

I mean... in some ways yeah? I have to run a dedicated Win10 box because native Office automation is a huge part of what I do. I've had to go to lengths to get the LTSB (and am working on the LTSC) license because it's the only version of Win10 that's controllable + secure. I also have a 2015 MBP for my Adobe Creative Suite workflow. All of my dev infra is Debian 10. Best tool for the job yo. I'm not going to bury my head in the sand and use tools that are only 20% performant because "ideals". I'll do my best to switch over (which I did for over a month) and if it's not working out I'm gonna ditch. I have to use Chrome until FF gets on the same level. I'm a startup engineer - I can't afford to neuter my productivity, I have to use the best tool for the job. Time is money. Period.

wolco 7y ago
Different browsers for different tasks. 99% of surfing happens on firefox. Some sites like vimeo only work in chrome.
- dredmorbius 7y ago
  Vimeo works with youtube-dl. Probably VLC. Video viewing (as opposed to previewing) really belongs outside the browser anyway.
  - folkhack 7y ago
    I'm a heavy YouTube consumer and this just seems like a headache with extra steps/complication, while shooting features like live streaming + chat in the head. Also it's a normal use case to view videos in your browser.
    - dredmorbius 7y ago
      I rarely view livestreams, nor use chats. I don't know if there are alternatives to either. Using mps-youtube to search, curate, manage, and play lists of videos, without relying on YouTube's server-side management is a real bonus. Hooking mpv into the stream more smoothly would be useful, and I don't have a good method yet. But given my primary use-case (listening, audio-only), the fact that in the case of video and audio you really can only watch/listen to a single performance at a time, and the fact that in general what's most useful for me is to have a queue of content that I'm going to watch/listen to, in sequence, non-browser tools turn out to be far more useful than browser-based ones. Most especially when you throw auto-play and advertising into the mix, and find yourself with multiple auto-playing tabs amongst ... well, I'm embarassed to say just how many browser tabs I typically have open, but it's a lot. WFM. YMMV.
- folkhack 7y ago
  Yep - tried going to a hybrid solution but the thing is 80% of my utilization of a browser is working on my startup, with the additional 20% being "general surfing" (ie: reddit, HN, blogs etc.) If my split was different I'd feel quite different about it... I just need Hangouts, Mapbox, YouTube, etc to work 100% of the time without headache. Also running two browsers was difficult because it's like "where's that darn tab!!!" half the time ha. My solution to this crap is to eventually do something like a pihole setup upstream from the browser and call it a day.

wolco 7y ago

Different browsers for different tasks. 99% of surfing happens on firefox. Some sites like vimeo only work in chrome.

dredmorbius 7y ago
Vimeo works with youtube-dl. Probably VLC. Video viewing (as opposed to previewing) really belongs outside the browser anyway.
- folkhack 7y ago
  I'm a heavy YouTube consumer and this just seems like a headache with extra steps/complication, while shooting features like live streaming + chat in the head. Also it's a normal use case to view videos in your browser.
  - dredmorbius 7y ago
    I rarely view livestreams, nor use chats. I don't know if there are alternatives to either. Using mps-youtube to search, curate, manage, and play lists of videos, without relying on YouTube's server-side management is a real bonus. Hooking mpv into the stream more smoothly would be useful, and I don't have a good method yet. But given my primary use-case (listening, audio-only), the fact that in the case of video and audio you really can only watch/listen to a single performance at a time, and the fact that in general what's most useful for me is to have a queue of content that I'm going to watch/listen to, in sequence, non-browser tools turn out to be far more useful than browser-based ones. Most especially when you throw auto-play and advertising into the mix, and find yourself with multiple auto-playing tabs amongst ... well, I'm embarassed to say just how many browser tabs I typically have open, but it's a lot. WFM. YMMV.
folkhack 7y ago
Yep - tried going to a hybrid solution but the thing is 80% of my utilization of a browser is working on my startup, with the additional 20% being "general surfing" (ie: reddit, HN, blogs etc.) If my split was different I'd feel quite different about it... I just need Hangouts, Mapbox, YouTube, etc to work 100% of the time without headache. Also running two browsers was difficult because it's like "where's that darn tab!!!" half the time ha. My solution to this crap is to eventually do something like a pihole setup upstream from the browser and call it a day.