All three browsers recommended are Chromium-based as well, so they’re dependent on Google and have to suffer from the Manifest v3 problem and the necessary manual intervention. Brave even is known for being maintained by a dick. Some of those recommendations are really bad.

Don’t get your second question though. The reasons for non-US should be obvious.

It’s hard to take action if you’re just one MAGA shithead with a gun (or oversized truck) away from either death or life-destroying debt. Even worse, your police force is badly trained and known to be full of shit. Civil disobedience blocking roads or doing similar, peaceful options come with an immediate threat to life and limb. And picking up a gun yourself to potentially defend yourself against the state is whole other caliber of action, you’re basically forced into an insurrection.

Without these fears I’m sure there would be more action. I’ve just witnessed my city of Hamburg, Germany, basically blocking the whole center with up to 80.000 people as a reaction to the so-called “christian democrats” and neolibs working together with the AfD nazis in Berlin (who failed). Because the only thing we have to fear are crazy truck drivers and another nazi regime. Hell, we can even blockade streets without previous permission without the police getting out guns or batons (they will use ‘pain compliance holds’ though; not everything is perfect).

I really hope that, after this deep dark nightmare you’re descending into, you’ll get better and go above and beyond with democracy and FAIR economics, learning from your past mistakes and enshrining safeguards into a newly reformed constitution. Like Germany did.

Any gender-affirming care for teenagers have been canceled, so the (non-tracked) suicide rate will already skyrocket. However right now the camps are only for “immigrants” and those who get caught by ICE as collateral damage of their hunt; trans people are in second place though. I assume first they’ll come for teenagers as well, ripping them out of their families who’ll get accused of child abuse (for trying to protect their trans kids), then the camps for everyone else will be build.

NewPipe is awful for Peertube. You have to add AND SEARCH every single instance manually. It’s only useful if there is a creator on a specific instance that you specifically want to watch.

Not to mention it lacks any (ethical) monetization options. And the app is absolutely rudimentary, lacking even basic functionality.

Framasoft made it clear they don’t want to make it a Youtube alternative though, however it could be through plugins. So there’d have to be a company or cooperative using it as a base to build upon, which is actually realistic. Especially European ones; not because Asia wouldn’t be interested in being more independent on the US as well, but because Framasoft is from France and Europe actively works towards this goal anyway with lots of money behind it.

“Unfortunately” most of the higher user base comes from the Steamdeck where most users never use it as a desktop PC. While many people are now trying Linux for themselves due to lots of good reasons, it remains unnecessarily complicated to use for many reasons. Abundance of bad advice being one of them.

Those who use a system without any GUI are adv. users or professionals who know what they’re capable of, who can safely ignore any safety features.

99% of users ain’t Linux professionals though. So 99% of guides and tips should show the more safe, intuitive, accessible GUI tools.

Welcome to the reason 99% of Linux distros remain so unpopular and both hard and unintuitive to use unless you’re tech-savvy. After those 5 minutes about 50% do it correct, the other 50% put a single character in the wrong place or follow an incomplete and bad guide and get stuck in boot. Or they’ll go and use an OS that’s more intuitive and more efficient for them despite probably also extorting them because that weird “Linux” thing is obviously only for nerds, who’re completely detached from the reality of most people out there not realizing that modifying core system configuration by hand that can make your device inoperable without any help from your operating system itself should not be the god damn norm.

Users should never have to fiddle with the fstab manually. It’s a shame the internet is still pointing to it when asked most of the time instead of explaining the GUI disk tools. Or at least some CLI management tool in case that one exists.

I concur there’s a good trend, unfortunately it still takes some time to get there. About OpenSuse, to get the stuff out of the way they’re currently working on:

• Better, more friendly installer (Agama)
• Stable and Modern Software, not either/or (Slowroll)

That’s definitely good. Their default website for the preinstalled browser also includes all the community links as well as a search, leading people to stuff like the Forum which is indeed very friendly (definitely not hostile like f.e. the Arch forum). They also tick a lot of boxes basically no one else does with the bootable system snapshots and (almost) full graphical system management with their YaST2 Suite (because nobody should be forced to manipulate god damn system config files with a command-line editor!). My main gripes with OpenSuse are:

• Flathub not added by default (especially when using Gnome)

This leaves new users with either no (Gnome) or a lackluster (KDE) amount of Software in the store. The concept of adding more software sources isn’t generally known, and new people have no clue what to look for. When using KDE they’d just assume there’s very little Software available in general.

• Lackluster Onboarding Wizard…

It’s literally just a bunch of links. While one of the links leads to Documentation (as well as a Readme, but that thing is tiny), the docs are already extremely advanced and go into system details most people will have never heard of or will ever need. Examples of how to do this well do exist, like in Mint or Zorin.

• …which should include a quick Snapshot settings menu

By default OpenSuse tries to save 10 snapshots per day, another 10 per month, 10 per year… it’s flooding your disk with snapshots eventually, and that you still can only change in a config file!

• Making the Software Store properly update

It’s a necessity to know ‘sudo zypper dup’ since the Software Store more often than not fails to install system updates for some reason (especially with the Nvidia driver installed)

• Include the Nvidia driver in the installer

While OpenSuse did a great job with reliable Nvidia driver packages, the manual install is still really bad. Distros like Pop!_OS solved this with a dedicated image, however OpenSuse got excellent installers that could auto-detect the necessity for the driver and/or offer it as an option.

Those are things that come to mind. There technically is lots of more stuff, but those wouldn’t be a distro- but more of KDE / GNOME problems (especially around stability). I really appreciate the OpenSuse team doing lots of good stuff, but there are some things a normal user (and by that I mean someone who can’t use the CLI to administrate a Linux by hand) can’t do, yet would be forced to either immediately or eventually. And yes, of course OpenSuse isn’t primarily marketed towards “normies”, that doesn’t mean all these things wouldn’t also be nice for sysadmins to be fixed.

sigh point 2 fits perfectly. The wider Linux community is full of people who’s openly oust you if you if you don’t know certain things or, beware, do not want to have to learn using a CLI but simply wish for GUI tools (in flippin’ 2025!). The elite here are people who like to tinker with tech, or rather those with certain knowledge the broader public doesn’t possess. On the other side are people who got other priorities than learning about the insides of an operating system, who get alienated by people who expect them to become CLI magicians as well because “it’s easy”. Completely ignoring how utterly lost most people feel at that moment.

Everything you said after that is rhetorical bullshit that’s also very common in the community and literally the reason I saw dozens of non-techy people reject Linux-based OS’ after they encountered their first issue and looked for help. You’re twisting my criticism of systemic issues in a way it looks like a personal failure of myself, because that’s something / someone you can argue against. Your last few sentences are also shifting the goalpost, I never spoke about that exact behaviour you’re describing there.

I’m done with this BS, bye.

I’m talking about the Linux ecosystem as a whole. You can always only get a few good things, but no distro ticks literally all possible boxes. Mint is really close, yet they decided to embrace the objectively worse .deb package system over Flatpaks and still got no proper disaster recovery like OpenSuse does (something that should be an imperative especially for “beginner” distros). Or as another example, Gnome devs acticely decided against overhauling their extension system in favour of more stable solutions that’d allow extensions to gracefully crash instead of crashing your whole desktop. No, apparently monkey-patching is totally fine because (I assume) radical developer freedom is better than stability for millions of people. I’m so fed up with people who’ll then proceed to defend what they rightfully love and tell me it was easy to get out of that! People just gotta learn to use the CLI, lol! 🫠 That’s what I criticize.

I also talked about elitism, lol.

One fascism vs. the other fascism, and everyone loses.

“It’s easy with tool that requires extensive knowledge. Do it with another tool that requires extensive knowledge and it’s even easier.”

You just showed everyone the elitism I was talking about, thank you.

There are too many in the Linux dev community who cling to their old concepts, even if they are objectively worse. Hell, 99% of distros still don’t even come with disaster recovery preconfigured; OpenSuse are the only ones I know where you don’t need to be a professional to revert back to a working state in case something broke. This conservatism as well as elitism (nobody needs the new stuff if everyone just gets good and becomes a CLI magician, right?) in the community is holding us back horribly, and it shows.

Mmh, I see. This might be either a difference in language or culture then. 🤔 In german it would not just be very rude to call someone paranoid, it’s also definitely rhetorically linked to a state of mental illness (basically telling them they’re fucked in the head / crazy). At least where I’m coming from.

Please don’t misuse the term ‘paranoid’ like that. It’s a medical term for a serious condition and we really don’t need to start labeling ourselves like that, others already do that for us way too often.

Someone who even it broke couldn’t fix it because it’s an Apple.

No, it’s real. It was an art installation at the Tesla Factory Berlin.