True but it's still better to have AdGuard for Linux as a product than not to have one at all due to MV3 limitations. Excluding the last one, serious bugs on AdGuard's stable version are not that common.
In the last AdGuard for Android version changelog, they said that they are unifying the codebase of all products. This should be a big help in development.
My experience with software that I have genuinely liked, is that in the end they all disappoint. AdGuard, Bitwarden, IVPN, Mullvad, others. They all suffer from the same problem. Trying to be all things to all people and all operating systems. That requires an army of staff and high operating budgets. Without those, the problems begin. And the problems began a while ago for AdGuard because they cannot handle the task loads and workflows.
When developing and maintaining software, "unifying the codebase of all products" only takes a development team so far. It will not provide the big efficiency that you think it does. The main problem is all the things outside of the control of the developers - which means they will be inundated with issue reports for all flavors of Linux from Arch to Xubuntu.
Every single time a software publisher decides to produce editions to be all things to all people & OSes, the overall quality of the product decreases. Those teams end up taking shortcuts, not doing things that need to be done, all in order to get things done with insufficient staff. Bitwarden and various VPNs such as IVPN and Mullvad have suffered from this conundrum. Trying to provide way too many products.
AdGuard has four "main" products with 20 sub-products/integrations and, 2,500+ open issues across 102 repos, but only 27 "staff." I use quotes because not all of them are full-time staff, and most are subcontractors.
My experience with AdGuard is that there are always problems. I have reported no less than three different causes of BSODs on Windows due its virtual drivers to the development team in just the past few months. That does not include the constant AdGuard service crashes with the last two major versions on Windows. They don't even have enough personnel on staff who can properly analyze a memory dump using the symbol files. They have to subcontract that sort of thing out.
Then there are developers that have to jump between the various AdGuard products - browser extensions, VPN, Android, iOS, Windows, DNS server, and well you get the idea. That does not go very well. I already know what is going to happen because it has been happening at AdGuard for quite a number of years.
People using Linux can use FireFox and uBlock Origin. Combine that with DNS filtering in a VPN (most VPN are Linux-centric) and it is all as effective a AdGuard. Less trouble with the software, too.
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