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  • Does it matter? If they start doing something bad, you just switch distro.

  • Same as not every American is bad, not every American product is bad. This one is free and open source, so its ok. And its competition to Microsoft.

  • The penguin at the top, that's the tarifed penguin 😀 The penguin on the bottom is freeeeeeeee

  • Brave browser is American btw. (not swiss). Also it is weird if in "European alternatives" you have e.g. only Asian companies as alternative for Asus (Taiwan). Also also Proton is Swiss, not sure why you have it listed like its American (showing alternatives).

  • I recently stumbled on this: https://www.unawatch.com/ I am quite curious how it turns out, but if they manage I would be pretty compelled to try. Its Scottish btw.

  • Is it possible to use Polar completely offline? I mean with Garmin, the Connect app must be connected to internet in order to serve the data and stuff. I tried Gadgetbridge, but the notifications just do not work well.

    I would like smartwatch that doesn't need cloud. I want to keep my data on my hardware and display them with software of my choice.

  • I tried both. Mullvad is a little bit better on Linux and a little bit worse for streaming services from my original country. What I wish for is that the Tailscale integration with mullvad would be possible to pay with crypto (right now you have to pay through tailscale with credit card). If that happens I switch again :)

  • Leave them be, haters gonna hate. I am afraid its the attention they get that encourages them...

  • There is an expression in my language for people like you "coffee grinder" - because they go round and round talking about the same thing. If you were at least correct... Saying that one party did one thing right doesn't mean supporting that party blindly or fully. You know, normal people CAN see or say positive things even about people they don't like, that's called objectivity. Doesn't mean they like them, support them, vote for them or anything else. I agree that maybe even the one opinion should not have been made by the company official channel, but its much more okay than people like you, who spread hate and toxicity (much like the republicans that you so much hate...)

  • Happy proton user here too. For 5 years already 😊

  • Hi, question: how many people here first checked credibility of the media involved? Don't worry, they seem legit, I am really just wondering because I quite recently found out that not many people really checks the sources when news like this appear. Please vote: "I checked" = upvote, "I didn't check" = downvote. Thank you.

  • Good reminder ⬆️ 😊

  • Thank you. Your points are... well.. on point :D Especially with "and the fact that there are as many opinions as there are users" maybe that's why we have so many distros.

    I hope there will be more devices with linux out of the box in the future, because that is probably the number 1 enabler. We see it with steam deck, although its kinda special case. But that is a Linux device that people buy, use and often times without prior linux experience.

  • ok, thank you :) And I know I could have found it myself, but sometimes internet just takes fun out of conversations 😀 (I mean internet search and stuff, because lol this is also internet :)

  • I think KDE is great if you want to customize everything. But truth to be told, I think no one knows until they try. I have always seen myself a KDE guy until I had to use it longterm and then tried GNOME and found it more to my taste. I assume that is why everyone is feeling so strong about their distros and DE's, because if it really suits you, you gotta love it and you want others to find that too :)

  • I honestly don't know.

  • Ok, but they were founded in Lithuania right? Its not really important all is Europe I just thought there is more to it than just EU liaison.

  • Haha this should be a t-shirt 😀 How many times I saw a discussions recommending distros to newbies so many people saying "just use [enter your favorit distro]" 😀

  • You are right about linux mint, but I want to just add that I have been adding distro with Gnome to former windows users and there were no issues with usability. And those were people that are not very technical. I think Gnome does a great job when it comes to ux. But nowadays Gnome, Cinnamon, KDE and even not yet released Cosmic are so amazing I can't believe how lucky we linux users are to have so many good choices.