I used to use OpenVPN as a means to connect to my internal network from outside
of my house. It worked really well, but managing its configs was a little bit
of a hassle and, frankly, OpenVPN is old news (/s). I wanted to play with a
new toy.
As I mentioned in my Qutebrowser article,
my browser doesn't have the ability to share bookmarks with my other browsers.
I run Chrome on my phone and Chrome on my Chromebook. And I have a second
Linux laptop that also runs Qutebrowser.
I needed a solution to share bookmarks between them. And I settled on
Linkding.
These days, it's more important than ever to find a good web browser: one
that's easy to use, has the functionality you want, and, most importantly,
is reasonably secure. It's also a good idea to consider the privacy features
the browser has too.
Too many of the popular browsers have privacy issues (Chrome sharing info
with Google, Edge sharing info with Microsoft, Brave sharing info with...).
Additionally, with my keyboard-driven window manager on my system
(Qtile), I wanted a keyboard driven browser too.
For most people, their window manager is something they probably don't think
much about. Consider all of the Windows and Mac users out there. They may
or may not think about the fact that they appreciate how using Windows is
different from using a Mac, but they may not be able to explain exactly why
(Though over the past few years, it feels like Mac and Windows interfaces are
slowing becoming very similar).
But on Linux, there is a lot of choice of window managers: from KDE & Gnome
(similar to the traditional Windows/Mac interfaces) to tiling window managers
like DWM, Xmonad, and Qtile.