A personal account of using EWW (the built-in text-based browser in GNU/Linux) as a primary web browser inside GNU/Linux. The author explains why they moved away from modern browsers (distraction, big tech dependency) and how they configured EWW with keybindings, a self-hosted SearX search engine, and integrations for PDFs, videos, and the gopher/gemini protocols. They acknowledge limitations (no JavaScript-heavy sites, no social media, no banking) but find EWW handles 85-90% of their browsing needs.
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