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as others have said, major thing is federation, which is rolling out. other than that, the are mostly complete.

not really. it is more of, “i am not really motivated enough right now, can you please motivate me a bit?”

maybe programs liek navi (or any of the other billion snippets managers) can help you. essentially, these have list of commonly used commands, and then you open it with some keybinding, and you will search, lets say git commit (you know you want to commit, but lets say you forget that flag to give in line message is ‘-m’, then command git commit -m "message" would appear. you would select it, and it should either be typed into terminal, or copied to clipboard, or some other way to quicly enter it. some others do this by autocompleting from suggestions. I have something handrolled for the purpose (which is not in a state to be recommended to others), so i would say just search snippet/command manager/helper/complete, and you should get tonnes of them. i remember one of them, that is navi.

you may also like to check out fish shell (or if you do not mind setting up zsh, if you want posix compatibility as well), as it has a very superior (compared to ootb bash) autocomplete, which will complete commands, and their flags, and sometimes also gives description of what that subcommand/flag does.

there used to be more, but now news is the main thing.

in olden times (of 2021), distro reviews/why linux is better/software showcase were the main things.

there were folks like luke smith (not going to his political shit) would do demos for things like groff/troff (imagine a latex alternative, now it is pretty much only used for man pages). but you get the idea - they would demo software, use it, compare it.

there is tle, who did lots of lists (like x amount of tools from elementary os which are great), linux cast would do file manager reviews, brodie would cover commandline stuff.

now pretty much all 3 of them do news. I still watch brodie because his news at times is niche and kinda fun, but i really do not want to hear lkml drama (which is non existent).

one of the youtubers which got me into linux was mental outlaw. he made tonnes of privacy/security/anonymity related videos back then, and occasional covered hacking news. i started trying to make windows more private (it truly started from try to make wwindows leaner), and then he, and tle got me into linux.

now i do not watch almost any of them. (except brodie, and occasional tle and tlc)

why all went to news - it is easier to make.

Most of the comment section is hating on it being a chrome based browser, and not really answering the question, so let me try.

(partially unrelevant bit, you can skip it if you want to) I have been using it for about a week. before this, i was using qutebrowser (qt-webengine, which is essentially older lts chromium) for nearly a year and discussing with someone how i definitely should not be using such a old browser. So I am trying out “mainstream browsers” again. I went with helium, because the “someone” also recommended it. I was using librewolf for more than a year before qute, and did not like the performance (especially in my case, ha ving keyboard navigation, with something like vimium or tridactyl). Another reason is that i wanted to try something chromium (proper) after a long time.

What it is - if you have heard of ungoogled chromium project, this project builds from that, and they add some ui/ux features. for example, in ungoogled chromium, you can not download extensions from chromestore, you have to use a separate extension, and you essentially “sideload” them. They (helium) have made a middle man service (open, you can host your own instance), which you can use to get a nearly chrome like experience. They also ship with ublock origin (the proper manifest v2 version which is now deprecated in other chromium browsers). Other than that, it is almost stock chromium.

trustworthiness?? - can not really comment on that. I know the devs behind this browser have also made “cobalt.tools” website (imagine yt-dlp, but written from scratch and based in web tech (js)). So they have some cred from that. other than that, team is likely very small, and your proper trustworthiness essentially boils down to - do you trust their work? you can check their patches on github. if you want to, you can try to build from source and patches (building chrome is nightmarishly long). if you use their binary packages (which i am currently doing) then you are putting trust on them (remember xz situation?). in case they are using stuff like github action to generate their builds, then you can check the build files and artifacts as well.

unbiased ad-blocking

in this case, this just means they are using ublock origin with default filter lists. my guess for their wording is that they are not doing something like brave (you partially see ads) or like edge and other chromes which use some very light form of adblocking, which ofcourse does not work on their websites.

I’d prefer it be an extension

it is. they are shipping the manifest v2 (the full version) of ublock oob.

Isn’t BSD a sharealike license? So they can’t not

no. bsd (i think chrome is 3 clause, but not sure) is a just as open license like mit or gpl (minus the copyleft in gpl). and the core(ish) bits of chrome are lgpl (not sure. i am taliking about blink).

if anything, linux is now the youngest it has ever been (in terms of younger people using it, earlier it was almost all neckbeards, and i only have a tiny beard)