Yeah, best combo for me too
Yeah, best combo for me too
Same for me, XFCE is light, stable and efficient. I believe that’s the reason it’s chosen for Debian as default DE
Dell provides XPS laptop with Ubuntu on it. It works great and Ubuntu can be replaced with other distro ( I did successfully tested Mint and now Debian 11)
Works OK but makes your connection slow as hell… Not really useful for daily usage.
You have a link?
OpenBoard with gestures? Where? Version 1.4.5 has no gestures, and it’s the last one… And three is no search feature for emoji, it’s in the ToDo list
You’re right for Pinta. Can’t be 100% sure about Paint.NET to be fully open source but as it based on .NET it might be…
Well, GIMP is great but uneasy, not sure but Paint.NET on Windows is simpler but very user friendly and may be sufficient for your needs
Agree to that, especially for video cards and Wi-Fi. These two can be hard to deal with… If your laptop is Wi-Fi only and you don’t have a USB/Ethernet adaptor you may not be able to connect to the net at all
Oh, very good points you mention here, definitively few red flags. As for the unusual traffic for your IP I experienced it because I’m using a VPN
Can you tell us why Qwant wasn’t a good choice for you? I heard they work hard on respecting privacy while providing good results… So I am curious about your experience
Not worse, but less repeatable. You don’t see any difference in typing, it just help reduce fingerprinting
Keyboard is absolutely a thing to be careful with. On Android mobile, use OpenBoard for example. On computer, if you use Linux, also install kloak [https://github.com/Whonix/kloak], a tool that slightly delays randomly your keystrokes to help you hide your typing pattern that can definitively identify you
This is another reason why you should use a dedicated email for each service or account you use
It’s important to distinguish privacy, anonimity and security.
Choose a smartwatch that supports Gadgetbrige, a free, open source and great OS for smartwatches
Right, but still quite affordable compared to similar solution with Proton IMHO