Ubuntu. Pretty sure you already have an idea why. Lol.

OpenSUSE. I’ve always had issues trying to use it, from zypper to updates to bootloops. It’s also sluggish compared to other distros (yes, same DEs usually) on my laptop. I’ve tried at least 3x trying to get why a lot of people love it. It’s just not for me.

I’ve never tried Manjaro yet, but coming from Arch and EOS I don’t think I ever will.

I agree with most people here. I don’t think it’ll be something major. We’ll just be able to interact with them without having to use that godawful piece of of crap official app. Of course, that’s if instances don’t defederate. Reddit has porn and other nsfw stuff so maybe a few instances would defederate, but I don’t think lemmings would have as bad a reaction like we did with Threads.

Of course, that’s never going to happen, as you’ve said, because of money.

It’s great. I’m on vanilla Arch now, but EOS would be my first choice if I ever wanted to change to another arch-based distro. The only time I ever encountered any issue (that’s not my fault) was the grub issue last year iirc. Other than that, it’s been pretty smooth. It’s basically Arch with a few QOL features preinstalled.

Edit: just like you, I was on Mint for years before switching to EOS. It’s easy, don’t worry. You’ll want to start reading, though. The wiki and aur are great.

so what’s stopping rich assholes from buying up points and using their capital to take over communities?

Oh silly boy/girl, that’s exactly why it’s set up that way. :D

JK. Seriously, though, I doubt reddit cares where the funds come from. Pretty short-sighted to me, tbh. When money takes over, I wonder how redditors will react.

I use Arch and Debian and I don’t think I ever had to build ungoogled chromium from source before (unless I wanted to, which I didn’t).

Firefox has telemetry. You can opt out and delete it, but by that logic it shouldn’t be trusted either. Also, I doubt people who really care about privacy don’t harden firefox. Being able to is not besides the point.

I’m not switching to Vivaldi because I’m not retarded.

Legit question: what’s bad about Vivaldi? I’ve been trying it out for a few days and I don’t see anything extraordinarily bad like Chrome/Edge. Although it might not be as privacy friendly as Brave and FF.