Programmer by day, burnt out by night.
I can speak for Nord’s client sending requests to Google for some reason, maybe not great for privacy thus not great for piracy either.
I can speak well of Mullvad, but advise against sending hundreds of bucks in one go as paper mail is not exactly well secured. There’s another VPN that happily accepts cash as payment and doesn’t need your info but I can’t find it atm…
Dumb answer: Just use a VPN, my guy.
Checking their profile, they do seem to be a furry, yeah!
Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the XFCE desktop, after all ;-)
An adware whatever should also be avoided.
This is not a good place to recommend commercial services.
Adding that this would work even if OP uses full disk encryption, as it’s encrypted with a passphrase; just double-click the drive in the file manager and enter the encryption passphrase when prompted (NOT a sudo password!)
Ouch fair 😅
Even though this is an old one, going by the ID.
Okay but programing or Unix jokes are whole different cake than openly admitting piracy unless you’re Meta.
It’s more like, the distro is the actual “under the hood” OS and the DE is the looks and user interaction.
I would say XFCE and Cinnamon; no two XFCE’s look alike and Cinnamon can easily be molded into something very different as well.
I see a lot of people recommending KDE and Gnome; I’ve found those surprisingly rigid, although there are more guides on how to “rice” KDE into the most non-KDE things so there’s that.
Have you checked software links from the megathread from the sidebar?
I know there’s a lot of links, but that makes it all the more sure at least some of them will have what you’re looking for.
Ah I guess that makes more sense!
Now if it was Debian with the Gnome DE vs Ubuntu, that would’ve been ironic!
I never had good luck making hardware work right with ubuntu Debian, […] always worked way better out of the box on bare metal
Oh the irony!
I’ve been running Mint on my Dell XPS 9370 (methinks) for years and it’s always worked just fine.
Only the fingerprint scanner just won’t work, not even with fprintd; it can set up a finger but never to use that same finger afterwards.
I love the customisability of KDE
I read this often but found KDE so difficult to customise. XFCE or Cinnamon is what I’d consider extremely customisable, KDE doesn’t even consistently listen to what theme colour I set :-(
Calm down, he isn’t the sole regent of the kernel, you know.
That’s really, really out of character for Apple.
But then, so was releasing seriously powerful computers.
Off-topic but:
That’s surprisingly mid-range, I don’t think I ever see that; just budget specs or bragging-level specs. As someone with almost the same build (Ryzen 7 4700GE, RX7700XTX, 16 GB DDR4) I’m positively surprised!