I started with Lubuntu, because of Minecraft. My PC was so slow that even Minecraft had improved performance, compared to it running on Win 10.

TL;DR: Do not sell the app, sell the service

After reading all the comments, I am a bit confused.

Based on my understanding, this a self-hostable, privacy friendly app, that does not contain a libre license, as you plan on monetizing it.

First of all, the primary reasons of opting for libre software are privacy and freedom. So, the lack of such license can be considered a red flag.

Second, a lot of privacy conscious Android users download their apps from services like F-Droid, that have strict rules against closed-source. So, trying to sell a privacy solution on Play Store does not sound like a good business model.

Tips for monetizing a libre service:

1. The client should have a libre license. You code running on the user’s device should be verifiable.
2. Charge for your STUN/TURN server.
3. Sell the server blob. Sandboxing apps on a Linux system is far easier (to prevent them from accessing the internet and potentially leak data).

There are apps that are even available on F-Droid, and are similarly monetized. Some examples, that I use, are: Bitwarden, Mullvad, Telegram and Tailscale.

I mostly use it for accessing my servers when I leave home. So, no need for constantly updating it. I prefer to install the OS and forget about maintaining it on that device.

I have Debian on a laptop that I don’t use that much, and I use Nix package manager for managing the apps I use.

Running Arch was a nightmare, as I was updating once every 1-2 months and I was getting lots of conflicts.

I have a friend facing some issues with his RX7700 on Endeavour + KDE.

Talking about desktops, there may be some issues with Radeon RX 7000.

If your hardware is that new, please stick to a distro with the newest kernel, like Fedora. There is a gaming oriented distro based on Fedora, called Bazzite, but I don’t know how big its community is, and how much it differs from vanilla Fedora.

There are also a lot of choices in the Arch family, like Garuda, Endeavour, and Manjaro. However, please stay away of those since you probably don’t have any experience on Linux. Manjaro is not really Arch, and can face issues with AUR packages, and the rest may break during updates.

Try the distro of choice in live mode. If you have enough RAM (like 16GB+), you can try to download Steam and some small game to see how it works. Keep in mind that, while in live mode, all files are stored in RAM.

I had tried ALVR in the past, on my Quest 2, but it sucked. A couple of months have passed and I should probably test again.

I do. When I watch Odysee.

Have you tried Fennec?

It’s not loading for me. Is that instance up?

We trust our medical records to insurance companies, that hire big consulting firms, that don’t know how to protect data or promote affiliate services. I love this world.

I work in another big4 company, and I have a strong feeling that your claims apply to us as well.

It’s funny though that before joining the company, employees are forced to sign some documents about anti-corruption policies.

I don’t understand this mindset.

In open source, both malicious actors and contributors will try to find problems.

In closed source, the development team is paid by hour (and probably don’t care about the product quality) and the only motivated people to find real issues are malicious actors.

But people still consider closed source safer.

Tin-foil hat on. So, with CCP/GSP, secret agencies are free to find backdoors on the system.

I didn’t know about those programs. I thought the Windows source code is kept secret from everyone.

Edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyvwacFNPxc

That smokescreen argument makes a lot of sense. Both the company and our clients, tend to opt for ready out-of-the-box proprietary solutions, instead of taking responsibility of the maintenance.

It doesn’t matter how bad or limiting that proprietary option is. As long as it somewhat fits our scenario and requires less code, it’s fine.

Pinky promise

Kitty has tabs

WireGuard supports mesh as well, but it requires to manually configure all the keys and all the IPs on all devices.

There is wgsd, which supposedly makes WireGuard mesh networking easier, but I haven’t tried it.

Is this like Tailscale? Maybe closer to Headscale, as tinc seems to be completely self hosted.

I think the OP is looking for a decentralized alternative to something like Nord/Express/Mullvad to hide their traffic, and not a way to connect their devices together.

I have Signal and microG with push notifications. Signal still uses websocket on my device. So, I guess it would be fine without microG push.