Firejail is (from what I understand) the same thing as flatpak but for system applications

Won’t a User Agent Switcher be enough? Firefox has an extension like this and they even recommend it

I use a website called tosdr.org

They have things to say about MEGA. I never used MEGA so I can’t say for myself but have a look and get your own conclusions

I’ve visited the websites of all of the browsers you listed. All of them have the same-ish UI. I don’t really know what a ‘workspace browser’ is so I don’t have nearly as concrete of an opinion as someone that uses one of these daily. But, from the UI alone, they feel like the Opera web browser (they are definitely not the same, and probably serve different purposes but this is the impression I get). Does one of these browsers have more features? Which one do you feel comfortable using?

Also, unrelated, but can you or someone else explain to me what is a ‘workspace browser’? What purpose does one of these serve?

Debian is good, but if you use flatpak I recommend Fedora. They have (from my own experience) the best flatpak implementation. Although it varies from person to person

(Again, from my experience) Nvidia and Wayland works pretty well, even with the proprietary drivers. Debian has Wayland+Nvidia support since 12. see: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Wayland

I don’t know about your other questions, sorry

Try to look for a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications/

If it is not there, try making one in ~/.local/share/applications/

If there is no .desktop file, try looking for the binary with $ which lutris

If you find the binary, but can’t find the .desktop file, take another .desktop file as an example from /usr/share/applications/ and create a new one in ~/.local/share/applications/ with appropriate Exec= from the $ which command from earlier

Given how federation works (and my limited understanding of it) I believe not much will change, since they simply can’t Extinguish. It’s all federated into different instances under different moderation teams. They hold no ‘ultimate control’ over anything beyond their own instances

I’m guessing everyone who likes GNOME (me included) only uses it because of its unique workflow. And that’s exactly why people were hesitant by GNOME 3 (besides the UI. I’m not a linux user from that time but damn the UI was weird seeing some old screenshots)

Oh, we’re enjoying it alright! Ever since Apple announced that they would kill off a service that we were using (basically to sync files between different computers and TVs) and replace it with iCloud (for which we would have to pay a lot). It was a pain trying to set it up but eventually I got it working. Very impressed at how well it does its thing.

I’d say it all depends on the user’s threat model. Seeing that part of the younger generation (myself included) are getting more caught up in technology and getting more interested in technology, in time there will be so many people using ad blockers (in fact, there already are a lot of people using ad blockers) that services like google will have to resort to other means of profit. While they try to find a solution, they will try to mitigate the thing that is preventing them from making enough profit in the meantime. In this case, adblocks. Privacy-respecting products are a thing, and some of them being used and trusted by huge corporations (an example would be Nextcloud, which is free to use).

To reclaim privacy is a very hard thing to do, but it was always meant to be this way, whether people like it or not, what drives the world is money, and user data is very profitable in today’s day and age

Luckily, there are things people can do to reclaim their privacy. It is indeed impossible to reclaim 100% of it, but people have the choice to steer away from massive surveillance that happens everywhere. Privacy is a human right that got taken away, but it can be reclaimed. People can be in control

That’s good to know, thanks

I don’t know about you but whenever I fiddle around about:config in firefox, Google Drive stops working. Maybe make a new profile and don’t change much in about:config? This got Google Drive working for me

The only thing Red Hat has power over Fedora is its name and infrastructure. Red Hat can’t decide for Fedora. Do they have Red Hat employees working for Fedora? Yes, they do, but the employees decide for Fedora, not for Red Hat. Besides, all the telemetry drama is being sorted out in the most open way possible over on Discourse (Fedora Discussion). It is still a 100% community distribution despite a lot of people saying “it is already decided” “Fedora is doomed” etc.

Since you’re more familiar with Debian, I recommend Linux Mint. Ubuntu if you don’t care about snap. These are generally good and pretty friendly. If you know your way around Linux and want something else that also has up-to-date stuff (Debian is always a little behind on updates) and you don’t mind reading on some documentation to get started, you could also try Fedora. Kali Linux tools are available to most distributions.

While this is valid from a user-friendliness standpoint, if someone is to uninstall Edge, even if they are an average user who just doesn’t want edge, they have a risk of breaking the system in its entirety just by uninstalling it. It doesn’t even matter if the person has something like firefox or even google chrome. Causing this much breakage over something as simple as a browser that can easily be replaced shouldn’t be the norm

Nothing against people liking Edge, but not being able to uninstall it by normal means made me dump Windows entirely. I mean, wtf? Not being able to uninstall a browser? Like, what?

Lab rats is a strong term (not wrong by any means) but people seem to forget that Red Hat is also one of the big players trying to make Desktop Linux better. And when Fedora users report bugs to Red Hat, they fix the bugs not only for themselves, but for the entire Linux Desktop community (they are large contributors to the GNOME Project, as well as making efforts to make Wayland better). Their decisions as a company may be causing community backlash, but without those big players (Canonical, SUSE, Red Hat) Desktop Linux wouldn’t be nearly as good as it is today. I see Fedora as a Debian, but company-backed (say what you want about this statement, but the Fedora desktop experience has been the same for a while, and will not change any time soon.) Fedora is also a Project, not a Product. A distinction that Red Hat takes seriously. Fedora is not profitable to Red Hat (the bug-fixes, as I stated above, benefits everyone in the Linux community, not Red Hat alone), that’s why it’s 100% free (both as in freedom and as in beer). Also, they have full-time employees working on GNOME and Wayland

But doesn’t one need to federate with all the instances to be visible and view others? Say I’m self-hosting a personal instance that only I use, could I see every post from every instance from the get-go?

Never gonna happen. That’s the good stuff about federation and open-source

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