I have an older desktop that doesn’t support Windows 11, so I put it on ubuntu linux, to be able to continue using it to stream and browse and whatnot. I support Windows professionally, I know my way around a desktop computer, and I’m moderately comfortable with linux - but sometimes am baffled by …

I hope this experience can possibly help Brave improve the linux experience, because as of now, it sucks for the new user following the intuitive path. But - this thread should have an answer, and I will post the answer for this example, in case someone else gets led down this path. If your Brave …

Hi friend, First off, I am sorry for not providing a solution to this. But I do want to “echo” some feelings you shared. I want to say from the get-go that I don’t think it’s only “Brave’s fault”, as Linux in general could have its “quirks”. You use Ubuntu, I use EndeavourOS (Arch, basically). Ev…

I believe it is about how you install Brave in the first place. Usually it is not preffered to download program via browser, but through packet manager or terminal. That way you download it from official linux sources, providing stable version of the program for your OS. You can update program autom…

Nothing here has helped. Somehow I installed Brave through one of many official methods it can be done, and somehow there is no way to uninstall it, and it seems no one can actually answer the simple question of how to uninstall the damn program, since it’s update ability is so broken. Maybe I mad…

@Mattches can you read through and perhaps offer any advice?

It highly depends on how did you install it in the first place. Did you download it in browser? Use dpkg -l | grep brave to find out which packages with keyword brave have you installed. Usually it is ‘brave-browser’ sudo apt purge brave-browser in terminal should work to remove Brave with all its…

@JanezPavelZebovec is asking the right questions and the suggested commands should do the trick. If they don’t, @JonnyGators can you briefly show me what the outdated version of the browser you’re referring to that you can’t uninstall looks like?

Once all those are uinstalled, it might be a good idea to run locate -b brave | less to see what debris, if any, is still there. Locate is similar to find, but easier and faster to use. Its piped into the less pager so the results don’t fly by if there are more than a few. What to do with anything…

It isn’t about being disrespectful to Linux, but more about having operating systems that work easy for regular users that don’t have a nerd brain to figure things out. I would assume that Linux would have a desire to bring more users to it and doing that should make sense. I would think having one …

I believe Ubuntu has installed (graphical) packet manager as default and that program should be used by regular users for installation/unistallation processes easily (like Google Play on Android) - but, as I understand - this program was not used, instead he chose installation through browser, which…

This isn’t entirely “Brave’s fault,” but Brave does have terrible Linux support and i18n support: https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20sort%3Acomments-desc%20label%3AOS%2FLinux%20label%3Ai18n Inputting Chinese characters on Linux will cause duplicates and cras…

How did Brave mess up the linux version so badly!?!?!?!?

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@JonnyGators

At the link suggested by @redbike9 above, notice the

We currently recommend that users who are able to use our official package repositories do so instead of using the Flatpak.

in:

[Flatpak] Brave is killed when closed despite toggling otherwise

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How did Brave mess up the linux version so badly!?!?!?!?

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