I run grapheneos since a couple of years and I love it.

People should pay for foss. Donations are oftentimes welcome

It makes me sad that you had to spend so much time with this topic. But thank you for publishing it ❤️

You can login with firefox and have the same setup anywhere as well. it’s really convenient to share tabs between mobile and workstation

Mostly fennec (firefox) on android but there are concerning news every half year about firefox. No idea how long I can withstand.

Vanadium is my alternative but it has no (good) browser tab overview (list instead of huge squares). And bottom navigation is sub par as well. Brave would be better in that regard but vanadium is rock solid.

As soon as firefox drops ublock, I’m out. For me, that day is still far away, but I guess it’s inevitable. You can’t trust firefox not chaning their path anymore. :'( .

All distros are fine.

You mentioned gaming. Hence, go for bazzite.

What is a ssh client?

A terminal? Termux from fdroid is good. Trrmuy from g store is not so good

Anything would be fine I guess. Try fedora server. It ships with a gui (cockpit) for basic management tasks. Maybe it suits you

https://fedoraproject.org/server/download

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fedora-server/

Since OP is sharing it, op should back it up, not you

What are you looking for?

Actually, what OP is referring to should be called GNU/Linux. Here’s a link to do some more research https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html

Is apple free? No? Then it’s either violating the GNU license or it is not based on it

I’d virtualize windows. For me, it’s way more important to have a good host

You don’t. For me, it’s for friends and organisations and parties

It looks really good but I wonder if it is as efficient as niri or paperwm https://blog.system76.com/post/cosmic-de-tiling-redesign-and-libcosmic-rebasing

Bazzite

Apple does not allow other competing security and privacy features. If apple was opening up, the gov couldn’t do anything in the first place

If your government wants to look, we want to look as well

The difference between distros are the package manager and choice of default software and settings.

E.g. Debian has no wifi enabled. Hence, ubuntu (which is like debian) is much easier because it’s user friendly. Ubuntu uses a disliked packaging format, snap, which is not used by mint. That’s why people love mint, becaus it’s as easy as ubuntu and has no snaps. Blablabla

Whenever you want to know some linux thing, read the arch wiki and you’ll know more about it.

Distrobox is like a vm, you spin up a distro within your OS with no overhead and can use arch on debian. Or ubuntu on arch. Or fedora on opensuse, or all at the same time because why not?

I’d try https://fedoraproject.org/atomic-desktops/ or https://vanillaos.org/ and install most apps as flatpaks. Vanilla is like ubuntu but you don’t mess with the underlying system. Atomic fedora is “the same” but with fedora style. Problems arise at the dev level, not the user level. It should be good to go on your system

Mint vs fedora is completely irrelevant here. GNOME vs KDE is more important and fedora supports both.

Which packages can be installed is also completely irrelevant since you can use nix and distrobox and flatpaks on all distros. Package availability is no reason to choose one distro over another.