No. Windows 11 and Brave are both fucking awful. You should stop using both.
Also, calling proprietary software "normal" is ridiculous and belies a profound technological ignorance.
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Closed source is not "normal software". What is so wrong with you that you use terms like that?
"Normal" software.
What do you like better about closed source software?
it works better
The hell it does! Closed source/proprietary software and OSes are, more often than not, a fucking dumpster fire. Especially Windows, holy shit!
What open source software or OSes have you even used??? It sounds like you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
I've used some closed source software that works far worse than any open source software I've tried
By what metric?
windows for example is eaiser to use and supports more games and apps than linux.
And yet, Windows is implementing open source products into its platform. Openssl, curl, wget, sudo.
thats for coders not normal people
No, it's not.
Do you honestly think a casual Windows user would know any of those terms?
Skill issue
My computer is running "xclock" right now, possibly the most normal software ever made.
I get what you mean, but this was worded quite poorly, like "normal software"?
However, there is 1 piece of software I can think of where I prefer a proprietary option over the FOSS alternatives.. Obsidian - In my opinion it's easily the best markdown editor and integrated mind mapping tool out there, even just as an MD editor I still think its better than the rest.
Yeah, but we don't feel the need to constantly talk about it.