That’s fair. I wasn’t trying to use “evil” in that way, but I understand your perspective. Their goal for the most part of still the same, I was just thinking about Google’s catchphrase “Don’t be evil” and then they started not really following that. To me this feels somewhat similar, a wavering of sticking to proton’s goals

Looks nice! I haven’t gotten an email verification link yet, but if I get one from them I’ll check it out.

I use niri since it solves the issues of positioning that you have with stacking window managers and the amount of organization needed for a tiling window manager. I can add many related windows to the same row and use super+the horizontal scroll on my mouse to scroll between windows, and the normal scroll to scroll between workspaces. I have common apps and shortcuts bound to hotkeys, but I prefer a mainly mouse-driven workflow so for everything else I am just dragging things around.

In my browser I have a collapsed left sidebar for tabs and a collapsed top bar for navigation which I can hover to reveal, so all I see by default is the webpage.

What is the separate system?

This looks entirely identical to freetube

This question reminds me of the time someone in my engineering design class group asked the question “if you were hired to work at Lockheed Martin for a VERY good wage, would you take it?” and I was the only one out of the five of us that said no.