I was by no means suggesting using Discord instead. Just from a purely practical perspective, it is very different.

It’s very different. Discord has “channels” and “categories” to organize discussions.

Yeah I tried this as well and royally fucked myself. Not worth it.

it’s a direct drive steering wheel

Yeah, probably none of that is going to work without lots of tinkering.

I also run a Quest2 for VR through Virtual Desktop

VR is also notoriously problematic in Linux.

Would a dual boot be viable until I can be sure everything is working?

Not really necessary, that’s what live boot disks are for (basically booting from a USB drive). To test if things work.

Why publicly criticize a distro based on a guess that its users are unwilling to use what it offers?

Because expecting users to manually add shit after the fact to make the OS functional is dumb.

I don’t know what that is.

Having a public chat group inevitably devolves into an endless waterfall of messages. I dunno how you do it. I can barely stand being a group with 5 people.

BTW

I agree. However, I will say, in my experience, if you want to use it exclusively as a gaming PC and exclusively with Steam, and without any sim peripherals, and without some competitive online multiplayer games, it works extremely well, and without any hassle.

I had the same problem but it worked out of the box with Mint.

E2EE comms are not monitorable. That’s like, the whole purpose of using them.

this is the exact thing Microsoft would do and why people would choose onlyoffice instead.

Because they’re not Microsoft? And they’re not malicious liars?

I mean there are 300 million Americans so…

Pretty crazy that basically every SMS app is hot garbage.

User data in SimpleLogin is encrypted and deleted after 7 days. It’s also self-hostable. Just saying.

Interesting. Has it always been that way or is that a recent development?

What country are you in that requires you to register fingerprints?

How many is “multiple”? You asked for “anonymity focus”. Having 3 different accounts doesn’t solve that.

Right now I have 663 aliases. Everyone who asks me for an email address gets an alias.

Not trying to argue with you, and I’m sorry I don’t have an answer for you, I just think this will better fit your needs.

This sounds like a job for email aliasing.

Depending on what that means

It means they can find out where it was purchased and by whom.

Just a regular old midrange smartphone. E.g. the original Samsung Galaxy A-series.

Still runs Android.

Some of them will, sure

All of them. Again, this is required by Android ToS.

Google is not available in China

Are we talking about China? If you live in China your cell phone is the least of your concerns. They don’t need it.