Considering what my ISP is I think I’d trust any vpn with a FOSS client over them…

IVPN is smaller than mullvad so mullvad has more support in the form of more 3rd party packages. With the fascism thing I feel like just because the owner is problematic doesn’t mean we shouldn’t use the service, otherwise by far the majority of large and medium sized services would be unusable.

I mean, windscribe made that one ad w/ hitler in it…

I use mailbox.org because both proton and tuta do not support IMAP, which is generally needed to use a 3rd party client. Mailbox.org is also pretty cheap and is pretty private as far as the non-E2EE providers go. And in terms of E2EE it is going to be used so rarely that is basically doesn’t matter, the type of person that would use tuta/proton would probably be willing to setup PGP with you, and E-mail isn’t a secure communications platform anyways, so you might as well just use Signal, XMPP, briar, etc…

Arch was my first distro and I did it manually, no archinstall. You can git clone someone else’s dotfiles if you wanted, so this distro is really for people who are too lazy to do that, and also want AI shoehorned into their OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

They want to overthrow democracy and turn it into some authoritarian techno-capitalist hellscape.

Eich, Yarvin, and peter thiel have ties to it, along with many others.

Prism Launcher is what I use, but also install the No Telemetry Fabric mod to reduce/disable telemetry in game (severs can still track you though)

Because every linux youtuber and their mom is making a video about it. And when you add buzzwords like “Agentic” and tell everyone that Omarchy is the future and will bring about the YOTLD, normies start flocking to it.

Even worse, he has ties to the Dark Enlightenment.

I’m center-right, but purging “woke” will only divide FOSS, there is a reason tech-billionaires also want to purge “woke” from FOSS.

Same. Capitalism will kill us all if we don’t do something, that’s why I’m a social distributist.

The biggest issue for me is its ties to the Dark Enlightenment movement, which is much more scary than any -phobia or -ism.

Snaps ruined Ubuntu.

Yes. Mostly people who are too lazy to install Arch and also want a preset hyprland config provided by the distro (instead of just taking one from github)

Omarchy has ties to Dark Enlightenment stuff so hard pass.

The thing is USB sticks are much more unstable than an nvme or something, so you’re more likely to lose your data. They can also be stolen way easier than an nvme or hard drive, but if you encrypt it w/ a strong password that shouldn’t be an issue.

Well maintaining a KISS repo of 100+ packages is something I once did to myself, so it is possible.

The only justifications for using flatpak are having a musl system or if the software has way too many dependencies. Use your package manager when possible, otherwise use an appimage, or find a way to get the .deb or .rpm working on your distro.