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Cake day: May 18th, 2021

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  • It is a fork but takes on a completely different direction. I knew about Waterfox since its day 1 but back then it had a really annoying bug because of which I stopped using it and went back to Firefox. But Mozilla with their “I don’t take"no” for an answer" made Firefox less attractive than ever for me, so Waterfox it is. And the best part is that with a little fiddling with the ini files I managed to transfer my entire profile from FF, along with the custom dir name for my profile. Mozilla keeps making that harder and harder, Waterfox does the opposite.











  • Oh, I understand now. I checked PKGBUILD and it seems the path is… let’s call it “hardcoded” because executables are probably looking for libraries in that specific path - /usr/lib, /usr/bin, /usr/share and so on and that’s why it’s failing to start, if it’s not on the root partition. I’m not an expert in software developing but this smells like a bad linux port to me, bc properly made programs have quite different paths, like this: $HOME, $PATH and so on, nothing definitive like with this game.

    By “properly made programs” I mean programs that will run just fine, even if I unpack their /usr in my secondary storage - /B/123/package-name/usr.