I found endeavour (arch) to be a much simpler experience vs fedora or opensuse or void. Tpm chip worked right away, clear instructions for setting up secureboot with a hook that signs everything as it's updated, etc. I could barely get void to boot, opensuse worked well but after a power outage the tpm stopped working and I was never able to get it back, fedora I had no success with tpm. I'm sure that's all pretty variable depending on hardware.
If you aren't looking for full functionality of your hardware most any distro should be fine, but...why sacrifice security?
I think you should take a calm and sober look at what Microsoft actually does.
You may be right, I don't know, but what I do know is any time I ask people for facts I get "read the end user license agreement" which is typically the furthest from factual a lawyers will get (it's filled with claims that are designed to not hold up, but give a legal leg to stand on for other moves) or "remember candy crush!?!?" But few things in the realm of concrete facts.
oh, hrm. Im not sure what specific build you're using, but the one I'm using has mechanisms for installing normal adblockers like ublockorigin. note: afaik, this doesn't solve the problem indicated in this thread -- I'm operating on the basis that the blocking functionality will be nerfed. However for me, I use it purely for (stuff that doesnt work in firefox) and my jellyfin server (since firefox is kinda particular about hevc videos...you can kinda get them to work in windows, but in many cases I dont fully understand jellyfin still tries to transcode to 264).
worth stating that "because someone distasteful is using it" is a reasonable misunderstanding due to me assuming some knowledge. Brave was created because firefox kicked a homophobe out and he wanted to make a browser. Said person is also clearly a cryptonut, which makes him a yet more negative person in my book. Now, unrelated to that base, you have a lot of people out there who are promoting it by my personal experience in more privacy centric groups is that these promoters are often quite...unsavory. Is that enough to stop using software? not necessarily. Is it enough when there are far better options out there? to me, absolutely.
very disappointing all round. on a sliding scale thats not the worst thing brave has done, but given that the entire browser was literally birthed from "we don't want your hate here" its hard to avoid.
lol I dont know what this means. all i can say is i misread the message as not-a-joke before realizing i was wrong and then deleted the message. whole process took roughly 30 seconds.
however its relatively rare that an ad company provides a bunch of services I want to use. The only exception i can think of is google.
obvs its hard to avoid gmaps because the alternatives are beyond godawful (no, openstreetmaps, i didn't want to go to the coffee shop of the same name in connecticut, I wanted to go to the one 3 km away), but for youtube I use a python tool called youtube-local which is very very effective, strong rec. Im sure google will defeat them eventually, but so far all of the incremental "block a little of this, block a little of that" stuff the g-man has been doing has been bypassed within a few days. Viewtube is also pretty easy to self-host, but they never quite figured out how to make the UI work.
I'd love to see your list of "stupid" things... not immoral, vicious, incendiary, criminal, etc...but stupid. None of those things is stupid if they are also your fundamental mandate.
You may have missed the joke