Why would your trust in Mozilla have anything to do with using this browser? Do you trust google more than Mozilla or why would you use a chromium based browser instead?
Vivaldi is only partially open source https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/
I recommend trying zen (not stable yet) when it releases, it’s has a lot of Vivaldis features, but is based on Firefox and open source
I love Firefox because with about:config and User css you can configure it just like you want it. Also Falkon because you get a fully featured browser that runs decently on older hardware
If you had problems with fedora atomic aurora likely isn’t for you. Its main changes are adding stuff like codecs and drivers to the image and making distrobox more accessible. What tools do you use? Aurora-dx comes with brew preinstalled so maybe they are available there. Also using distrobox completely skips flatpak permissions so maybe that would help you
For me that would be Fedora (preferably KDE). I currently am on Aurora (Kinoite fork), but that’s because I value stability very highly (except for immutable and Debian nothing is stable enough).
If you are interested maybe look at this post I made comparing search engines
I have never seen one with SS, but maybe they removed that part in Germany.
If your main focus is privacy I suggest Librewolf. It is one of the best for privacy, but it suffers from some performance issues. There is also Firedragon which has better performance, but is Linux only. Personally I use Firefox and Brave and then tweak them for optimal privacy (check out Betterfox), but I would only recommend that if you are willing to make a lot of tweaks to the browser and keep up to date with the additions they make so you can disable stuff like PPA. I also recommend following the development of Zen, it looks like a good option so far but I’m personally waiting until it is officially stable
If your main focus is privacy I suggest Librewolf. It is one of the best for privacy, but it suffers from some performance issues. There is also Firedragon which has better performance, but is Linux only. Personally I use Firefox and Brave and then tweak them for optimal privacy (check out Betterfox), but I would only recommend that if you are willing to make a lot of tweaks to the browser and keep up to date with the additions they make so you can disable stuff like PPA. I also recommend following the development of Zen, it looks like a good option so far but I’m personally waiting until it is officially stable
Safari Limits adblockers heavily, it has a bunch of extensions missing that are available for Firefox, it only works on apple devices, it doesn’t have a lot of the anti fingerprinting features that Firefox supports and is a proprietary application made by a company that earns money from advertising. I don’t think Safari is a realistic option for privacy if you find Firefox to invasive
Don’t forget automatically killing orphans
I recommend to use bottles. It creates sandboxed bottles with wine and directx support and offers a gaming optimized preset
I use Speech Note for STT/TTS and it works great. You can choose between different models, I use whisper (more accurate) or Vosk (faster). You don’t need a GPU, but it will speed things up greatly
Aurora is a beautiful place to live in and I love it
I had this exact same thought but than I booted Windows. I get less frustrated because if use Linux I feel like I’m working with it and it is acceptable if there are mistakes. If I use Windows I feel like I’m working against it, and a big part of that is that a lot of issue aren’t there because they are bugs (of which there are probably as many as on Linux) but rather just bad/anti user design
They can put it on another App Store in the EU, but only if it’s approved by apple and they pay apple 50 cents per download
You just have to add „All hail Tux“ to the end of every comment and it should go away in 2-3 business days
All hail Tux
You can use webapp Manager to get web apps for Firefox and apparently official PWA support is also coming
I don’t check the source code of something big browsers, that’s a little beyond my understanding, but that’s why there are experts for that.
The webrequest api (or rather the main parts) have already been phased out of chromium, so it’s just a matter of time until Vivaldi rebases to the newest version and gets rid of the api. (I think they said they want to delay the depreciation but acknowledged that it is inevitably coming, probably sooner than later)