Reygle

I enjoy when the news headlines remind us they CAN be good

As an owner of an old pine phone, I can confidently say avoid for now. Not remotely ready or reliable enough.

Mine is E2EE.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-firefox-i-loved-is-gone-how-to-protect-your-privacy-on-it-now/

That article says it better than I can in s short post. Firefox's terms of use/privacy policy went over like a lead balloon last month.

I think it's incredibly important that people know, with absolute certainty, whether or not the new Mozilla/Firefox privacy policy in any way applies to / covers such a service.

I'm not saying I know the answer- What I'm saying without a concrete, permanently applied answer it's not even considerable.

Been there. Accepted

To answer your questions though, I suggest the non-Cosmic version of Pop!OS. (and switch to wayland if it's not the default yet- not sure, I've had this install for YEARS) It's a good blend of "just works" and "up to date enough" to run anything, and I recommend steering well clear of Arch. I've been using Linux for a decade and I've always found a way to whoopsie it into a broken state. That's a "me problem" yes, but if I can fudge it up that easily and I have experience using it, I think it's unsuitable to recommend to anyone.

Most people live in a web browser- does it really matter if the desktop environment isn't riced enough or isn't windows-ey enough? That said, it takes actual hackery to make any version of Windows usable these days, so I'll forgive a distro not being "absolutely elite" for someone's preferences. Let's not compare Linux forums to Windows forums, where no-one has ever, I repeat ever received ANY useful advice besides reinstalling their Windows, am I right?

I typed 6 words. Are you alright

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Who's ready to talk Linux

The China kind.

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OK then, foreign communist megacorporation & government

"NOOOO the foreign man who's been fucking me is gone, I MUST find a new foreign man to fuck me or I will die!" -Idiot humans