

This is atleast positive
This is atleast positive
Please name the distro you are using so that others can be saved from this scam you unfortunately fell into
But honestly, what is your goal? If you want it to be a safe phone, just degoogle, install one of either Graphene or Calyx(dont ask me which one is better, I have no idea of either), dont install random apps you dont need, encrypt important stuff and you are good to go.
SIM tracking is another ball game, maby dont even have a SIM card. PIN lock your SIM card, only put it in your phone when you have to.
Maby put your phone in a Cement for more hardening /s
Unrelated but maby related to an extent.
Everyone I know uses Truecaller. Its a battery hog and a pile of horse manure. Except, one of my friend pointed out someone had added my number in Truecaller with some extremely ridiculous name that I had to register and change my name.
Ridiculous, but what can you say? India and Pakistan are both known to put up bullshit to promote their agenda
I use KeepassDX and Aegis, I use Facebook, Viber, Whatsapp and Gmail to communicate, use Linux, also use Lemmy as is apperant from this very comment. I have uBlock Origin installed on Firefox as the main browser, I also have Protonmail as my main email, also I use simpleLogin. My search engine is DuckDuckGo. I also use ProtonVPN and used to use Opera VPN.
I am from all of the above tiers
This mentality that “Corporate backed stuff is bad” should be thrown out of the window. Alot of evil corporations have contributed to make Linux better for everyone.
Regardless, have you tried Debian Stable with Backports?
Have you looked at Linux Mint or other Ubuntu derivatives that have programs compatible with Ubuntu without all the scuff Ubuntu is known to do bad
Again, are you sure affiliations with IBM and Redhat makes Fedora worse? Can you justify this statement?
For those who think Libreoffice is the best FOSS software out there, you should try switching to dark mode and tell me how you feel
Use dark mode bruh and truth will reveal itself
Have you ever tried dark mode in libreoffice? Else you would know the truth
Me too, so I just switch to light mode and deal with my eyes burning
They will just wipe these computers
1: You sure you had the right permission to do so?
People in here are either wannabe snowden or sell some grass
Just use OnionShare
Here are some answers I can give
1: Depends on which game you play, performance ma be better or worse, cant say without specifics
2: If modding a game requires copying files from here to there, you will have 0 issues, but if it requires some software to do it, you will have to do some digging
3: In some cases, you can use something like WINE to run these applications. But I have personally never done it. A better way would be to search for how to do it in Linux, which look difficult at first, but its just different not difficult
4: That I dont know enough to say, maby WINE can run them
5: Yes, there is a Linux update button on many so called beginner friendly distributions like Ubuntu and Linux Mint
6: Lets just rephrase it this way, a vehicle is open source, anyone can unscrew anything, anyone can change brakes, does that make it less safe?
7: Yes, GPU drivers are very stable these days, there was once a time where it was not true but thats history now
8: No and Yes, Linux will not try to prevent you from breaking your computer if you want, this sounds weird but there are good reasons why. But you gotta understand, Linux is a layered architecture and most of the hardware related stuff lives on the bottom layer, and you need to go out of your way to modify it and disable safety features to cause hardware damage.
Personal note:
1: Anything you can do on a web browser is not an issue, that includes office 365 or Adobe cloud or stuff like that.
2: If you have iPhone and require full support, you are out of luck, I know some folks were able run iTunes through WINE and get its full functionality, but thats just hack and nobody can tell if that works or if you can get it working now. The only support that comes out of the box is being able to copy media from iPhone to computer, cant remember if you could copy media from your computer to iPhones.
3: Adobe support is absent. I know some were able to get older version of Adobe products working with WINE but cant say that works anymore. Like I mentioned previously, being able to use stuff over cloud with a browser is non issue.
4: Libreoffice in Linux is pretty must identical to MS Office. Its just that buttons are in different places and you can save as PDF which will look exactly the same.
5: There is no reason not to atleast have Windows dualbooted, you can find something like Oprekin’s Windows 10/11 lite with everything removed, though it may be absolutely insecure, Windows cannot support Linux’s filesystem so its fine when you need it. It can fit in about 50GB disk space so no reason not to have it.
Wait, Microsoft pays to use their products?
Have you considered if secure deletion will work as expected when using SSDs or SD Card? I heard the only way to actually delete something is to fill it with gibbirish and format it