Unless your computer is exposed directly to the internet, your router’s firewall should be enough. Fedora typically has SELinux and AppArmor enabled by default which should protect from something nasty executing on your machine.

Don’t execute things as root if you don’t know what it is and you should be fine.

On desktop yes but not mobile.

The profile manager isn’t available on mobile, at least I couldn’t find it or switch accounts without completely signing out. Checks all the boxes for me on desktop though.

I travel a lot for work and stream Plex. All my media is in HEVC and I dont want to have to buy a video card for the server just so I can transcode it to Firefox when everything else can play HEVC out of the box.

Syncing 2 different sets of extensions, bookmarks and browsing history across devices reliably. I wish it did work, I hate running Edge on Linux. Even regular Firefox profile sync is kinda flaky for me though.

Profile switching is a big one for me.

Also kind of nitpicky on my end, but I would like to at least have the option for H.265 support. I know they can’t include it OOTB, but I can’t even buy a license compatible with FF.

Canadian islands because I ran out of bears.

I bought a System76 Pangolin 11, then replaced it with a ThinkPad X13 within a few months because the battery life was trash. Total workhorse but it would die on me in meetings if I was sharing my screen.

It doesn’t make much of a difference in the kernel, but I definitely notice it on Debian’s Firefox vs Flatpak.

Something a Gentoo user might care about is the distro’s compile time options. Ubuntu uses -O2 and LTO, Debian uses -O1. Debian has always been noticably slower overall for me.

Don’t do what I did and go with Tumbleweed. It gets more updates than Arch.

I have a System76 Pangolin 11 with the Ryzen 7 and the battery life is trash. It would die on me during meetings from a full charge if I was sharing my screen. Not blaming System76 on this one, its probably the AMD chipset all things considered.

Replaced it with the Thinkpad X13 Gen 2 and love it. Easily gets 8 to 10 hours on OpenSUSE, and everything just works.

SLE and OpenSUSE are pretty popular. They merge sources every release.

Yes its license is not GPL compliant.