They also force you to hand over all traffic, including https by MITMing it. Unless you have the enterprise license.

I know many, many people who don’t have a PC at all, phones are usually enough for most.

Seconding Plasma, it worked great with my touch screen.

Once you pick an app to open a certain type of files or as your default web browser, that is what the system will stick with. Plasma makes you the boss.

I wish this was true.

Note that Ubuntu is no longer just a Debian clone, not in the sense of, say, Linux Mint and Ubuntu. Many Debian apps are not installable on Ubuntu and vice versa, I’d personally consider Ubuntu a base (original as you call it) distribution nowadays.

1. You don’t have to use it for everything, though prepare that a lot of Linux tutorials will have you putting commands there, because it’s simply easier.

2. I use Proton VPN as well and though I don’t remember how I installed it, I run it using a GUI, not terminal. Additionally, whenever you read a guide for Ubuntu, there’s 99% chance it applies to derivates without any modifications. Both Kubuntu and Linux Mint.

3. Custom mouse pointer - yes

4. Updating distro - yes, easy. App updates are also easy, it can be automated, though I personally prefer running them manually. It’s a few button clicks away.

5. Use a beginner friendly distro, of those I’d recommend Linux Mint, Ubuntu or Fedora (or its derivate, Nobara). If I had to choose one, I’d go with Linux Mint.

6. Installing Linux is extremely easy nowadays. Definitely easier than installing Windows from scratch. Making the computer absolutely unusable is really hard, pretty much everything can be fixed.

Well, in that case the Tarantula I recommended does have a Playstation layout.

Yeah, I was talking about the face buttons.

Well, that’s not a Playstation layout.

Yes, that’s the one I have, it has Xbox/Switch layout. Or are you seeing something different?

Tarantula Pro as well. It doesn’t have PS layout, though. How did you achieve that?

Well, the Playstation layout is severely limiting. I recently bought a GameSir Tarantula and it’s really awesome, but it only has Xbox/Switch physical layout.

It can present itself as a Playstation controller to the system, though, so it will be detected as such, but the physical buttons won’t match. But if you don’t need that and are more interested in games recognising you have a PS controller, it could work for you.

I use it with my Steam Deck, so it works well for Linux.

It literally does the same thing, except it’s self hosted?

I recommend caddy as a webserver, it’s very powerful, but the config is super simple compared to old school stuff like nginx or apache.

You can use frp to do the same thing a CloudFlare tunnel does without giving them your unencrypted data.

https://github.com/fatedier/frp

That’s true, but ISPs have logs. And if something happens that makes the police change their mind about enforcing the law, you might be fucked, retroactively.

If you live in an area where you need a VPN to keep your ISP off your ass

Uploading copyrightes material is illegal pretty much everywhere I know of.

You probably missed the word “better” in there.

Note that on the whole, life increases entropy, so the in their vicinity is a very important part of what you wrote.

Well, bundling a full browser and using a mature and popular runtime are very different things in my book.

But yeah, if you want an open source tool, JetBrains is not the tool to use.