While realistic - if nobody tries differently without getting just the massive bag of ceo tax money, it’ll never ever change.

Stability is really good. No real big issues overtime, running BTRFS and Timeshift. There are some minor problems here and there but more to do with KDE or Arch being Arch I suppose, nothing that stopped me from having a non-functional system.

Not sure what you expect in terms of “support for gaming”, It’s Arch-based so mostly you’re on your own to do that, not from the distro focus itself but everything has worked so far for me.

I don’t often use the AUR, most packages come from flatpak if I can or the extra repo from Arch/Endeavour which is trustee packages by default. I added the CHAOTIC AUR to get binaries instead to get faster updates but didn’t replace all my packages with them from there.

+1 being happy on Endeavour OS for a year of two now.

How dare you expose my mobile typing and/or my not-native language speaker! /s

Netherlands here and as well we have so many local shops that outbeat Amazon that it isn’t even fair. There is a very small chance I buy something of Amazon, think the only time I did was for a replacement item for a Dyson.

Interesting, thank you for the detail.

Outside of junk pre-installed, isn’t it also just a longer extended windows update? Meaning you’d eventually get the updates regardless?

Think this was sponsorblock due to above statement

The best and set up fully automatically.

Should be detailed here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#removeparam

Use uBlock Origin’s wiki / rules for this instead. Reduces an add-on and achieves the same/better results!

Myself, because I’m stupid with coding.

+1 to NanaZip

I like this one, i tend to do this as well. Possibly discover something new and more geared or useful to you; or else an experience that tells you what doesn’t fit for you.

I’ve gotten really good with ddg searches to where I find much more than I did on Google bypassing the first big payers to Google to stay on top… Even if it’s not relevant to my search. I stuck around with ddg and now as I grown into other area’s of IT like Linux, I noticed there were a lot of great bangs that could get me towards the information I wanted.

Same goes for ddg as for Linux to develop new workflows to keep it fresh and make computing fun again.

DDG is awesome, been using it for years.

I am out of the loop, what’s going in with snooping?

I use their cloudflared tunnel sometimes for accessing home hosted stuff.

Seemingly so but I am also using a stack of things.

Firefox browser + uBo -> Safing Portmaster -> DNS Querries to NextDNS

All with filtering.

MPC-HC + Madvr is a lot nicer, VLC for mixed other videos though.

Rustdesk vouch.

Huh? We in Netherlands have 5G