Good question! I feel like Plasma generally crams more into the UI than Gnome. Context menus, global menus, desktop icons, the system tray, etc., there’s so much space being utilized. When you have limited screen real estate, having more at your fingertips matters (for the way I do things). Additionally, you can set the power button to open the shutdown overlay, which I don’t think is something Gnome has; it’s a button within easy reach on my laptop, so that functionality makes sense.

Some people have said that gesture support is also better on Plasma, and while I don’t tend to need it currently, it’s something I might want someday. So while I agree that Gnome seems like it should be more suited, I find it’s actually the opposite for the way I do things!

Cool, and you’re entitled to your opinion. I still prefer the workflow of Gnome on my desktop (and Plasma on my laptop).

Telegram should not be considered an encrypted solution, due to the opt-in nature of their encryption. The owner regularly collaborates with law enforcement, as well.

Signal. SimpleX is my backup.

Because that’s not authoritarian enough.

Telegram is not private. When are people going to learn?

Ubuntu isn’t a good choice, since Canonical is essentially the Microsoft of the Linux world. Suse makes sense, though. NixOS would be good, too, since you could scale your deployments.

Why do you think so?

https://youtube.com/shorts/Ym3tDIzueBU

Brilliant!

I don’t really get the hate for US-based FOSS. Corporations? I get it, and I’m here with popcorn to watch them suffer. But few if any are profiting if you decide to use Fedora (for example), unless you take issue with Red Hat’s downstream involvement. Most other projects don’t benefit any corporation and are hobby projects put out there for the public good.

Avoiding Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and the like makes lots of sense, as does investing in your local economy, but FOSS is open by design, and it thrives through global participation. Seems to me like tossing the baby out with the bathwater, otherwise.

Fedora

Neat idea. Reminds me of microdots.

Well, at least I know now.

Man, childhood ruined.

Wait, he’s MAGA? Christ, it’s so hard to keep up on who’s gone off the deep end.

—Chuck Norris

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I would hazard a guess that the only reason those others aren’t as high is because they don’t have the same access to data. It’s not that they don’t want to, they simply can’t (yet).