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I use Nyxt as my daily browser for the most part.

After experimenting with lots of alternative browsers (uzbl, qutebrowser, etc.), I find Nyxt to excell in the following areas:

- Configuration system is highly organized as well as flexible;

- Feels like a first-class browser in almost all situations;

- Fast startup and responsive UI.

That said, I've encountered some issues, mostly in connection with work:

- CJK input is kind of janky;

- Infrequent crashes on some JS-heavy sites;

- Cannot log in to Azure Data Factory for some reason.

All in all, I would highly recommend giving Nyxt a serious spin. The devs are crazy active and helpful. I am pretty confident that the above issues will eventually get ironed out.

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No binary distribution available for about 98% of the world's desktop computers and they only linux distro they make packages for that has anything approaching significant desktop share is Arch.

It's like they're purposefully being snobs making it only available for the most obscure operating system users, or something.

We have a deb installer. We are trying to make it as available as possible, but we don't have the computers necessary to test and distribute on those platforms. Sorry about that!

That's great news, but if it's not listed on the download page, people aren't going to know that.

> we don't have the computers necessary to test and distribute on those platforms

Even if hardware wasn't cheap and virtualization hasn't been readily accessible for over a decade, if you're constrained on hardware why are you focusing limited resources on packages for incredibly obscure linux distros? That are more difficult to develop on because a)they're not as high quality or stable and b)there are less support resources and documentation for them?

Re: OS X and Windows, cross-platform support is just going to be all the more painful later.

It's really not that hard to get a working windows-installation for low money, if you actually care. Nowadays, you don't even need a license it seems, just install the official images into a VM.

If you want to invest some money, there are also cheap refurbished PCs, cloud-desktops or some less legal sources for a license from eBay or Craigslist.

If you believe it's now worth the time and effort to make such binary distributions, I'm sure the devs would highly appreciate your help and compute power.

This is extremely common for new open source software. You can find plenty of interesting projects only packaged for Arch and Nix, because packaging for those distros is extremely easy. It's just a matter of time and effort, and this is a volunteer project.

I wonder why does it crash. It uses WebKit as renderer. Can you give an example of a page on which it does crash?

Unfortunately, I have been just ignoring these lately, with the intention of troubleshooting later. Now seems like a good time to at least start taking notes of problematic pages. Cheers.

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