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I have an Acer Predator Helios 16. I have been running Kubuntu on it for around a year with almost zero issues. The only one I had was issues with secure boot and Nvidia drivers. I play WoW, Helldivers, and a bunch of other smaller games with no issue.

I am speaking from only my personal experience, but I would say the vast majority of Firefox users are using Firefox to avoid Chrome and Chrome likes. That being said I would say they are then more likely and inclined to also utilize extensions.


According to Mozilla's own stats, most Firefox users do not have any extensions at all:

> Has Add-on shows the percentage of Firefox Desktop clients with user-installed add-ons.

> December 8, 2025

> 45.4%

https://data.firefox.com/dashboard/usage-behavior

Note that language packs are counted as extensions.

Some have disabled telemetry, of course, but how many? Here we can only rely on our own observations, and of all Firefox users I know, it's zero.

(I keep it enabled because I want my voice to be counted — people who have never lived in an autocracy tend to have peculiar views on this.)


I think the correlation of people using extensions and people disabling telemetry is pretty high. I do both myself. Even a decent password manager requires one (though not on android because it has an API for that). On android I do use others obviously.


Always appreciate people citing real data! I honestly would not have been able to guess one way or the other but unfortunately most comments are kind of hip firing in random directions that are impossible to keep track of, so it helps to keep these discussions grounded.


But what if you weigh this by usage time? The firefoxes without extensions might be hardly ever used


Can confirm. I have a 2020 F150 with a standard box. No way am I fitting a sheet of plywood flat.


Because as soon as you leave a major metropolitan area, not having a car is almost a nonstarter.


It's the same in Europe, but people pushing an agenda don't talk about that either.


The US takes this to an entirely different level.

In places like Vegas, even on days with great weather, trying to WALK 2-3km in residential areas is a nightmare.


People who are "pushing an agenda" aren't arguing that there should be no cars ever, anywhere. Cars are the smallest-scale form of long-distance transport, they are unavoidable in low-density areas or for services that requires complete flexibility. All the agenda-pushers I've seen in real life are just saying that there's better options within cities, at least for a lot of people. Most of the time, most people only move within their cities, myself included. If transit within my city was in any way adequate, I would choose it over the car. I could cover those rare out-of-city edge cases with rentals or train travel.

Besides, it's not even the same in Europe. In a few countries, maybe, but in the majority the inter-city transit or transit within small towns is not even in the same universe as what's available in most of the US.


Over 100 million people live in just the top 20 metro areas alone. It's hardly an edge case.


A massive chunk (if not majority?) of those top 20 metro areas are largely car dependent for most of their populations. Large areas don't have any public transit at all, and the rest is often designed to be actively hostile to pedestrians.

Try living without a car in these places, all in the 4th largest MSA.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/mHmGidZRJaKptHeL8

https://maps.app.goo.gl/5P4mW5iM6b5ab9Ve7

https://maps.app.goo.gl/JCiBgESKs5ZWqGny8

https://maps.app.goo.gl/E1iVwLCB28ooGhQL9

These are all in "urban" areas and a part of DFW. But how about Houston, the 5th?

https://maps.app.goo.gl/7yEAimERmyE1EGde6

https://maps.app.goo.gl/UKSQjPqifWUSv82H7

I don't know how one would even get groceries without a car.

And even then, you're then talking about less than 1/3 of Americans living in that mostly car dependent space.


And _not_ living in one of the top 20 metro areas is also hardly an edge case.


And even in most of those metros (OK. Leave aside Manhattan), not having a car tends to imply a lot of lifestyle choices in terms of activities, visiting friends outside of the metro, etc.

There are certainly people who are OK with living like they did in their urban school for a few years after graduation. But that's not a long-term solution for most people.


Having started my IT career in manufacturing this 100%. We didn’t have a choice in some sometimes. Our support contracts would say Windows XP is the supported OS. We had lines that ran on DOS 5 because it would’ve been several million in hardware and software costs to replace and then not counting downtime of the line and would the new stuff even be compatible with the PLCs and other items.


And what’s kinda sad is we only recently moved past 1280x720 as the “standard” for entry and cheap laptops.


I can’t speak to N8n or Temporal, but coming to Windmill from Airplane I love it for its simplicity in design for use by others. Being able to build a front end app from a simple Python script has let us quickly deliver end user quick fix style apps out of our already written scripts.


What would a Django(server side templates)+Celery user miss out on without Windmill?


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