topic Re: Brave new world in Tech Help - Software/Hardware etc

Brave new world

redsox9 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:29:09 GMT

On the recommendation of @shutter and others, I have been experimenting with Linux on an old laptop and found it to be a good alternative to Windows. A most welcome discovery was the Brave web browser. Chromium based, it is designed to block ads and trackers by default and loads pages faster. Brave has a Windows version which I now use on a Windows 11 desktop alongside Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome.

Re: Brave new world

jab1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:32:31 GMT

Which Linux distro are you using, @redsox9 ?

Re: Brave new world

redsox9 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:51:45 GMT

@jab1 Zorin

Re: Brave new world

jab1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:13:58 GMT

Thought so - same as what I've been using for about 5 years - recommended to me by someone on our local forum.

Re: Brave new world

PhilipHeyes — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:05:22 GMT

I have an Ubuntu virtual machine in VMWare.

It is quite handy to be able to flick between Windows and Linux on the same screen.

Re: Brave new world

jab1 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:12:28 GMT

If you need Windows, I suppose.