Yeah, but this defeats the purpose of being anonymous and not sending your habits and IP to facist america, if you are the only one using that instance, it doesn’t give you any anonymity

Then you might just use freetube with local back end

100% Especially since Google is cracking down on alternative front ends like freetube and blocking VPN IPs

The hard part will be to convince creators to go to platforms where they don’t get paid

For testing try the live USB sticks Just flash them to an empty stick with programs like etcher, then power dowb and select the stick in your bios (usually reachable by hammering f1, f2 or Del while starting

(Remember that performance will be much better when installing it for real compared tusing running it from a stick though)

Dual boot will work and is not that hard to setup, but you should back up all your data before trying it.

Also when dual booting to avoid duplicates etc I have all my documents and stuff on a USB stick, so I don’t have a version in my win and a version iny linux. Cloud works as well

Yes, ez one (if you have installed operating systems before and know how to paste an error passage into google ) -4hours and your done start to finish. (Given you have standard hardware and don’t want to set up something crazy like dual boot with raid and nas)

Moderate complexity if you have never done anything like that, plan 2-6 evenings to get it fully working with everything you need

Also: consider your scopes. For most cases Linux will just work, you just have to get used to some different interfaces.

BUT: some things will not run under linux no matter how hard you try --> google if stuff you can’t live without will work

(for me I still have a dual boot windows for playing league of legends and running my vive wireless adapter, as those will not run under Linux.

For games use protonDB

I may be oldschool, but for people not comfortable around terminals I would suggest Debian KDE as it never breaks and the transition from windows is easy. You can do everything from GUI (clicky button interfaces)

For the installation of steam you might need a terminal, but there are good guides online (and you really dont need to be a wizard for that) from where you can just copy paste (when searching just add your distro e.g. “install steam Debian”, and once you’ve got that running you can just run every game from within steam.

Since Steam has done a lot of work with proton, most games just run under Linux. In steam: Install–>play

For nearly all games not directly running, you can just force them to run with proton. It will say: “Game not compatible” in steam, you just click the gear icon on the right to open settings, go to “compatibilty” and tick “force use of compatibility layer” and select the newest proton from the drop down

The button where steam previously said “not compatible” magically turns into the blue “install” button we all know and love. And nearly all games run with only minor inconveniences (like showing keyboard hotkeys even when playing with a gamepad) or no issues at all.

You need to be aware that some games using kernel level anticheat (e.g. league of legends, valorant) can not and will never run on Linux, if the developers of the games don’t add the possibility.

EDIT: for programs not related to gaming its often easier to use an alternative, if the program is not available for Linux. Most times its also more privacy foccused, open source and free

Adobe light room --> darktable

Microsoft office --> libre office

Adobe Premiere pro --> davinci resolve/shotcut

Paint/Photoshop --> gimp/davinci/dark table

Edge --> firfox

Notepad --> Kate

Fraps/relive/shadowPlay --> OBS

Etc. Pp.

Installiert twrp then lineage for your device. Usually there is a guide with the packet on the lineage Website.

If not officialy supported you need to pray someone on xda tinkered a Version together

öffi is really good.

[https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi/](öffis on f-droid)

You can select the source of the info (for example set to your local provider api or just use default) and I like the schedule view very much.

I am not a software expert, but it is Foss and doesn’t require strange permissions.

YSK: When having “open links in private tabs” enabled in your default Browser, pixelix login will not work but load endlessly.

If you deactivate the option in your default browser it will work the second time you try it:

0. Deactivate “open links in private tabs” in default browser
1. Log in, get redirected to your normal profile (but no prompt to authorise the app)
2. Close pixelix
3. Open and log in again
4. Now you get the prompt to authorize the app

Trying to get teamspeak hotkeys to work in arch wayland - tinker with system for 2 hours - give up and try to revert the changes for 2 hours - give up and load btrfs snapshot - still got bugs you didn’t have before - give up and install Debian.

Lul why downvotes? Seems like a good setup

My setup is similar. Graphene differences: Shelter instead oft Island Fenec instead of iron fox (mainly cause its available in fdroid and I’m to stupid to do code reviews of “random.” Github apps myself Mulvad instead of next DNS Neostore+fdroid

For home I use Debian as my arch broke to often. (But sadly still one Microsoft gaming PC for vive wireless and league)

Freetube instead of YouTube

OPNsense router with ET blacklists, VPN for everything non gaming related and an u6 pro as AP so I can have different wifis for direct/VPN/(maybe home assistant in the future)

Also no arr setup and nothing at all opened to the outside

I dont know anything at all, thats why i am asking. Apple not being fan of Foss on their devices was just the first thing that comes to mind.

EDIT: Just saw you quoted them, nvm, thanks for the relay

Feel safe? You think Apple is targeting them?

EDIT: not the case for all we know, situation seems to be complex and they don’t want speculation

https://vt.social/@lina/114184253273866198

But the more people use chrome based stuff the easier it gets for google to dictate what is possible and what isn’t by (not) updating the Foss repos for chrome forks

Whats up with you guys? I’d rather have a fresh out of the gym teenager next to me in the bus then an Justus who smells like an axe factory.

How normal body odor is a tabu in some cultures and where deo ads which tell you its bothersome if you smell normal is still a thing in 2025 really grinds my gears

Thanks for the breakdown. I ofc use a root pwd different from my user PW (with sudo privileges) and often use appimages, as they don’t require privileges at all to my understanding. I do run a few binaries though, as for example for team speak or corectl they are the only ones that work for me.

How would I go about restricting the files a program can access? Make a whole new user just for that program, put “run as this user” in the .desktop file an manually set read/write permissions for every single file on the system?

This seems unpractical. Is there a best practise guide? Do I need to get into apparmor and stuff?

If im to noob to unterstand how to actually

“employ robust application control to block malicious libraries and payloads used in Dynamic Linker. Implement behavior-based endpoint detection to identify and prevent process injection activities.” And  “also implement strict access controls, limiting administrative access,”

Because I don’t really know what this means, what should I do?

Is there a step by step guide somewhere?

I second freetube

It gets broken by YouTube API changes quite often, especially if you want to Tunnel through invidious, but they update quite fast and the experience is super smooth when working

My Debian dies this everytime i Start, but it goes away after a few secs, doesn’t do that on windows, so software bug is not impossible

True, but the config settings should be good Form the get go, that’s the reason the app exitists after all and ublck and noscript are installed fast. But thanks for the tip :)

Had the same, promptly uninstalled, didnt find infos.