Tbh, I very much doubt that the bottom lines of, say, Dassault, BMW, Metro, or UBS would even budge if Twitter were to self-ignite over night, and their Twitter accounts with it. They’re (still) on this dumpster fire of a platform because “everybody is” and some bellend in marketing thinks it impossible not to do what all the others are doing. I’d argue no consumer cares what the Twitter account of Tesco’s has or hasn’t been posting this week, and it has zero effect on their purchasing decisions there.

“Self-employed creators”, aka influencers, aka people shilling products while pretending to be your friend, might be affected more because they lack any non-virtual connection to their “customers” But then again, we could ask ourselves if these provide any real-world value and should exist in the first place.

If Europe banned X tomorrow, a lot of people and companies would take a non-negligible hit to their revenue.

Care to back up that claim? What exactly is Twitter’s contribution to their bottom line that they cannot live without?

If I weren’t pretty convinced of Mullvad, this coming from the company that promoted a VPN to spy on people would make me immediately suspicious. Fuck you, Mark! You’ll never be a real human.

Hey there, fella! If the findings confirm my biases, sample size is irrelevant. Science has spoken! /s

These people are foolish for reasons far worse than just using Telegram.

…and once you get to “AI” with system level access that is supposed to scan for “bad content” (like with Apple’s supposed “CSAM scanning” and Google’s Android System Safety Core), all bets are off.

All of the major platforms owned by corporations (including Apple) are or will be compromised.

The only way out is degoogled Android (for now) or, better, a true Linux device.

I’m pretty sure everyone’s birth date is 1/1/1970

FTFY

“Won’t anyone think of the cHiLdReN?!”

Where I am, Telegram is mainly used by alt- and far right figures close to Russia. Facts don’t matter in these circles any more. Feelings do. And Durov knows how to manage those.

I guess that’s the point when I’ll just go offline for good and learn a solid, old-fashioned trade.

I see the Graphene bois still like shittalking other ROMs. Not exactly the kind of behaviour that builds trust, but we’re used to it by now.

Yes, other ROMs make compromises, as do the people using them. Saying that all others are “bad for privacy” is just bullshit. Anything is better than stock Android.

Agreed. Reading this, or trying to, I was switching back and forth between “this is missing information” and “why provide this additional explanation?” The target audience isn’t clear. Either go for the technical deep dive or provide a much higher-level explanation of what happened. Not this… mess in between.

Gentoo user: “Of course we build from source! (What are snaps?)”

Things are moving very fast right now with a lot of back end linux stuff changing rapidly to support more people and programs coming off Windows.

Please, indulge me. What exactly is it you’re talking about here?

Imo, not having access to the most recent Thunderbird or LibreOffice version doesn’t matter at all to beginners, making Debian-based systems perfectly viable.

Fedora KDE, on the other hand, may turn out to be an annoyance once they need to install proprietary drivers (as OP is due to their NVIDIA card).

Don’t worry, Arch will do that over time.

Very basically (ELI5):

• Bazzite is an immutable distro, meaning anything in the file system but your /home is read-only. That makes the OS pretty secure: from the user (who cannot break it by messing around), from software bugs (which cannot really take down the system with them) and from potential malware incursions.
• Nice… But how do we install software on such a system? Linux software does need write access to system directories (e.g. /bin, /lib, /etc and others) during installation, and now it can’t. So we need to work around that. Bazzite does that in two ways:
  • installing Flatpaks, a special way of packaging software together with all of its dependencies and running it in a kind of sandbox, separated from the rest of the system.
  • installing it inside distrobox containers (for any software that does not come as Flatpaks). These are, essentially, a separate complete Linux distro (though stripped down as much as possible) running in a sandbox. And on these we do have system level write access. If we mess up, the software messes up or it’s malware, only the distrobox will be affected, not our host machine.

You may now begin to understand why I wouldn’t recommend Bazzite to beginners: it’s a cool, but advanced concept, and you need to understand its limitations and workarounds. Otherwise, you will just be roadblocked at some point, or, like you are, hacking away on the command line without actually understanding what you’re doing. On that note, props to you for succeeding so far! But also, at the risk of sounding like a gatekeeper, it shouldn’t be that way, for two reasons:

As a beginner switching from Windows, you have enough things to familiarise yourself with: the file system structure is different (“Where’s my C:\ drive?”), software installation is different (“Wait? I don’t just download random binaries from the Internet like a caveman?”) and a lot of software is different (“Where is Paint? Where is Outlook? And where did the ribbon menu in Office go?”). You really shouldn’t have to tackle the command line to get basic functionality working.

If and when you start working on the command line, you must understand what you’re doing, because the command line assumes you do. It lets you do anything with and to your system, which makes it a very powerful tool. But powerful tools need to be handled with caution, and as you can see from your experience, Bazzite does not teach you that: it expects you to use the terminal right away, and since you can’t, you just resort to copy-pasting random commands off the internet. In Bazzite, this cannot hurt you much because of how the distro ist built. But it’s an absolutely terrible habit for new Linux users to get into. Once you switch distros and move to something else than Bazzite, just running random commands on the command line can absolutely wreck your system.

That’s hardly any time. I’d be curious for your experience >12 months.

No joke: I just built a low-end server based on DDR3. Got 32 GB for 40 EUR.

Better to use apt-get though. That way you don’t even need to bother with the dumpster fire that is Windows 11.

The question is: how long have you been using it?

Sooner or later, stuff will break on an Arch-based system, and a beginner will not necessarily be able to fix it. So I wouldn’t recommend any Arch-based system to beginners.