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Full Linux parity with Windblows and macOS should be an absolute priority. I use mainly Linux and very little Windows 10, and it's absolutely vital for Linux support to be brought fully up to speed.
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Creating a modern web browser and an independent search engine with its own spiders from scratch would be mammoth tasks in this day and age and, for a search engine, as well as requiring massive resources in terms of cache, storage, and so on. Well beyond Proton in terms of the financial resources that would be needed for either, I'm sure.
Besides, how many people would still be willing to pay for either a browser or a search engine? Even if there were 100 million Proton users willing to pay, that still would not raise enough anyway.
For a browser, at best you'd be looking at a fork or even a fork of a fork of an existing one. And nobody dare suggest Chromium! Basically you'd be looking at yet another Firefox fork, or perhaps a Waterfox - itself a fork off Firefox - one. Perhaps doable? But hardly a priority of any kind, given the number of privacy oriented browsers already out there, led by TOR browser.
For a search engine, it gets even more complicated. Yes, you could do a skeleton search engine interface, but you'd still have to go the same way as DuckDuckGo et al and get into bed with Big Bad G' or 'Big Bad Bing', one way of another paying for search results cache. It's a vexing problem, whichever way you look at it.
All that said, yes, it would be a nice idea though......
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@get better - Linux *is* a first class platform. Which is why Proton apps should be completely on par with the other platforms.