I have my network using it, no issues as of yet.

I get it, I see the comment sections. Tribalism is everywhere.

Not bad. I take issue with the part of the article called “distro wars”. There is no war, but I dont expect them to “get it”. These cringelords seem to have a need to meme-fi everything, really dings the tone of the reviews. Am I reading a tech review or an opinion article?

Eeh

The only gold standard here, is this article being the gold standard for hand-wavy “truths”.

Such a load of BS. Mullvad is the only one so far that has not squealed.

Who do you think is lobying for this? We dont have companies in the EU that would benefit from it.

Reminder, @chaoticnumber, revisit this comment in a year.

Hey, I wanna be right, you know? :D

I give them a year before they piss off the dev community.

I would of went Alpine, but debian is a solid choice as well.

To add to the arch management, after a while you learn the golden rule - set it and don’t fiddle with it too much. Nowadays there is very little maintenance to it. I run an update followed by shutdown. Once every 2-3 months there is some issue, that takes a forum search to fix and once a year it breaks to the level where I need about half an hour to an hour to fix it.

But … its already simple?

I disagree. You are normal if you have social media and not if you don’t?

Dunno man, if people need IG to interact with you and you are not comfortable with it, maybe they are not your people, you know?

Why should one go into uncomfortable territory for others, people should interact from positions of comfort, otherwise its a stretch for one side and just a bad time all round.

One thing is for sure @[email protected] , you will have a harder time, make less connections, but I’m pretty sure the ones you will make, will be solid.

One word of advice as a fellow non-socialmedia-person. If you want to meet new people, make sure you are in the same place at a certain time on certain days. That way people know where you might be during certain hours and that is also a way to make connections. Just be sure you like said place.

Mullvad dns.

I haven’t heard that one before, gonna use it :D

If you haven’t tried dietpi on your sbc’s, try it, it is much better than the usual default, its glorious.

Its all fun and games until the power bill arrives. Performance per watt is important, please look at that first. Don’t be me.

Bazzite is probably a safe bet.

When I first installed linux I set up a dualboot because I still had data on windows. A week passes, I get cocky, I customize the grub loader, somehow nuked the windows install in the process because (unbeknownst to me, I was installing a new bootloader on the linux drive) I ran some commands off the stack exchange. When I went to my windows drive the C part was gone-gone, I had documents on that C drive. Said to myslef “I guess I have a free drive now” and never looked back.

Those documents were important, no backups. Time, nerves and money consuming to get them again.

Because the grifting is more tolerated nowadays. Its like the slow boil of the frog, they kept doing it for years and years, until people got more and more used to it, because we didnt push back enough at the right time.

So now we deal with this enshittification.

Personally I think its like a pendulum effect, it will swing back in the other direction, but it will take a long time.

Choose what you use carefully.

Assumption on your end. I dont trust the ground I walk on.