FWIW - I use 4 browsers.
Opera is only for Facebook. Nothing else.
Firefox is main browser with umatrix and ublock origin. Mostly for random sites I've never been and research / learning. Also for poat and everyday site where I can explicitly specify permissions (scripts, redirects etc).
Chromium is 2nd research browser for sites I find on firefox that need a lot of permissions.
Chrome - is browser for anything that doesn't run on Firefox / Chromium, like some of my online banking.
The system works great for me. I reboot maybe 1-2 times a month. Running Linux Mint and put in suspend mode when not using. SSD / 16GB RAM, discrete GPU. Reboots are mostly for kernel updates and such or the occasional desktop glitch with cinnamon (run dual monitors).
I'm embarrassed to admit it, but my problem is probably windows.
I am long time windows user since windows for workgroups days until Win10. Tried many times to do full migration to Linux but something would always not work quite right. But then Win10 pissed me off so much I spent a week trying different distros until I found one where everything worked (Linux Mint Cinnamon).
The Win10 thing was the forced updates where even if I turned off Windows updates or edited hosts files etc etc, it would still find a way to force updates on me. Bye bye forever Windows.
I wish I could do that. I really do. Its work that keeps me on it. My company loves windows and google. The owner specifically. Its upsetting. I try to push linux based alternatives to both but the owner just hasn't wanted to bite.
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