I know that some manufacturers ship QubesOS, those are intended for people with high threat models afaik.

Neat, thanks! Makes me even more grateful that I decided to switch.

Is GrapheneOS affected?

Wayland have worked flawlessly for me, but I do understand that I have a very simple use case, so ymmv.

Even if they do remove them from the official stores, you can always go straight to the source and sideload it.

I found that, at the cost of a few months of absolute suffering, using Gentoo as my first distro fasttracked my Linux learning.

I find ZFS rollbacks to be easier but setting up ZFS can be a pain (other than in Gentoo and NixOS from my experience), so take your pick

As someone who’ve tried Gentoo on systemd and OpenRC, as well as Void with runit, I don’t see any reason to use OpenRC over systemd. I never noticed any performance difference, and it has far less features. As for runit, if half the boot time for half the features is what you need, then go for it.

I use ZFS, not BTRFS, but both have snapshots, and if you’re someone who likes to tinker with their system like me, it lets you do so without worrying that it will break.

This is free and pretty effective advertising for Telegram, really.

Copilot doesn’t work on VSCodium from my experience.

And they try to demonise Tor and I2P… At this rate, the dark web would soon be the only place to go.

Huh, I despise ads as well, but are they really that ineffective?

I wonder how much of the money would go to the creators themselves rather than YouTube though. I’d rather use adblock and give money directly through patreon or something. Fuck Google.

My use case isn’t too complicated, so your mileage may vary, but from my experience of using distros like Fedora (though I hesitate to recommend it due to Red Hat’s recent bullshit), it is no less usable than Windows (and it runs faster too, partly thanks to the evident lack of spyware). From what I’ve heard, games without egregious anticheat works fine under Proton as well. You could always set up a Windows VM inside Linux too (Chris Titus has some excellent guides on setting up QEMU/KVM) if you need to but I never needed to so far. Tldr, Linux is as simple or complex as you need to be.

Windows is spyware that you pay for, and that’s reason enough for me. I hate Google too, but I have to at least admit that they at least give you pretty good free stuff in exchange for being spyware (at least that was the case the last time I used any of their products anyways, been quite a while since and given the current enshittification of many big tech platforms, wouldn’t be all too surprised if they followed suit).

Well nixpkgs and NUR should be big enough, and you can just quite literally use Nix to grab stuff from Github anyways.

I really don’t see how adblockers would ever be illegal, that sounds like an absolute dystopia.

IIRC something along the lines of it not having proper site isolation, making it less secure.

Iirc isn’t it more like Brave is better out of the box, but given sufficient configuration, both are more or less equal?