what’s up with vertical tabs? it seems very foreign to me having always used horizontal ones. is there any particular benefit beyond it just feeling better for some people?

I’ve always hated horizontal tabs. It’s one of the reasons why I started using Firefox way back in like 2006 because there’s a popular extension that gave you vertical tabs. Horizontal tabs suck once you have 10+ tabs open and I have 70+ tabs lol

I just installed it with Flatpak on my Fedora Macbook. I need to play around with it, but my 5-minute impression is so far pretty good. I don’t really get the point of the sidebar since I use the web search plugin for KRunner on my main desktop. I guess it’s good for people who don’t have KRunner since they could add a bunch of commonly used websites like Wikipedia and Google Translate.

Edit:
Split tab is very interesting. Not good for the laptop because the screen size is too small but it can have good use for my desktop.

I still have to use tree style tabs to be able to organize my tabs in a tree structure, but I’m (mostly) able to hide the default tabs unlike Firefox where the horizontal tabs sitting awkwardly on the top alongside the tree style tabs.

I feel like Linux may be going the way of UNIX. Not in some pessimistic “it’s joever” way, but in the way that it eventually will be superseded by an improved project with better leadership, better technologies, and better principles.

I remember having this shower thought, “it’s weird to imagine people still using Linux in 2050.” Of the three main OS, Linux is the oldest one. Windows NT is slightly newer than Linux and macOS is only around 2 decades old. Even the various BSDs are slightly newer than Linux.

Mossad is getting really desperate.

It’s Waydroid. Since your current setup doesn’t have Wayland, you could always try setting up a VM with a distro that has Wayland or even Waydroid already installed like VanillaOS.

mfw Linux file managers had tabs more than a decade before file explorer.

I’ve read the lemmy.world responses, and they’re all predictably trash. The real answer is there’s no good way to tell if someone’s a kid because they’re plenty of mature 12 year olds and plenty of dipshit adults with poor writing skills (ie boomers). To rephrase the question, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually not a kid?

1. They talk about mid- to low-tier shows that your average zoomer wouldn’t know about. So someone talking about The Simpsons or Batman: The Animated Series doesn’t mean much, but someone talking about Biker Mice from Mars or Extreme Dinosaurs means they’re some millennial.

2. They namedrop social media sites that no longer exist. Remember Xanga and Vine?

3. They complain about body problems. Knees that feel funny before it rains. Bad back. Nose hair that never stops growing. And so on.

4. They demonstrate an understanding on how old and obsolete technology works (typewriters, payphones, VCR, floppy disks, Limewire, DOS, modems, Blackberries). Like, average zoomers don’t know how to use those map guides that are in the form of a book.

5. They remember how the pre-modern web was like or life before the web was like. Someone who’s <18 years old was born after 2006, when the modern web was still being build.

6. They remember ancient memes and fads that are obscure enough that it isn’t some zoomer looking up random memes on knowyourmeme.

7. They’re horribly out of touch with what kids enjoy. Notice this is different from passing judgment on what kids enjoy because they’re plenty of things I thought was stupid when I was a kid. But when you say shit like “only 13 year olds like Tiktok” or “only kids like Minecraft” yeah you’re just out of touch.