Orion for Linux
hooray!! 
Does "at day 1" mean that if we subscribe to Orion+, there would be a linux version available as a beta - or something else?
23oreironfb0609 Does "at day 1" mean that if we subscribe to Orion+, there would be a linux version available as a beta - or something else?
Not quite yet. I am sure that availability will be clearly communicated here as soon as it is ready for Orion+ subscribers to test.
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Looking forward to the Linux build, be it on Gnome or QT (I personally use KDE, but whatever works best for you guys is the priority!). I would also like to chime in for the development; I just subscribed to Orion+ just to support the browser!
Would also vote for GTK/WebKit! Hopefully it also makes use of the latest adaptive GTK so it works well on the nascent Linux mobiles like the FuriLabs, Purism or Pine phones.
Vlad I would chip in 100 for a kickstarter to see it come to linux. My biggest issue is I daily drive all 3 desktop OS's currently + android. Sync is important to me (namely history, tabs, extensions, and favorites). Which is why I'm mostly stuck either in firefox land or chrome. And neither do it perfectly. But I'm eager to try something new on linux.
Winks Well, my solution is nextcloud for everything basically... I sync my history, tabs, bookmarks etc. through it, but I also know there is xbrowsersync that works really well too!
While I agree that since Gnome Web is likely the best base, it is essential to ensure that it works and looks good across other desktop environments. It is unfortunately one thing that libadwaita is not great at. Gnome Web does a solid job of this, but it is not true of all GTK/Gnome apps that use libadwaita, especially when used on QT based DEs like KDE, which like Gnome is a huge user base.
Casting my vote for Gnome and WebKit. I too avoid all things chromium. I'd love to see and enable more competition in the browser space.
I'm a fan of Kagi, and I'd like to be able to add another privacy friendly option into my tool set. Google/Chrome moved away from what originally drew many of us in from the early 2000's. Firefox is having controversy stir yet again, and they love telemetry, which was OK when it's only about making the product better. Removal of the promise to never sell your data from the TOS isn't going over well in some spaces.
Vlad Great to hear! Good luck.
clintre I would also like to see a QT version but GNOME I think overall has more users. Plus GNOME Web already exists as an example since it also uses WebKit. KDE Plasma developers have made it so GTK apps don't look too bad when running with Plasma. Obviously they aren't native looking like other QT apps but it doesn't look so out of place like QT on GNOME.
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DankeBrutus Agree, I think it is the best choice. The Gnome apps in general are fine it is more the libadwaita that causes some issues. I have to deal on the dev side with it from time to time.
I'm late to the party, just found this thread today...but between hating chromium, being disillusioned by mozilla, and loving Kagi search as a linux user I'm super stoked that this is happening.
We need more WebKit on Linux.
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I also vote for WebKit on Linux. I became a lifetime subscriber to Orion+ after reading this announcement and also after Mozilla's recent privacy policy changes to Firefox. (I don't know how to get the Orion+ badge to show up on my avatar.)
I am personally making a transition to using Linux as my daily driver, so this is really great news.
We announced Orion for Linux development start today!