they’re not unusable but you can definitely notice there’s some Google fuckery going on with them

the only sites ff is shit for is Google sites imo (e.g. earth and maps)

otherwise it’s fine

Forum software is like exactly what raw html/css was made for, i don’t understand the need for slow js bloat

when you fuck shit up you can’t really easily boot in from a usb drive and learn the recovery process

i personally wouldn’t recommend encrypted drive for a beginner though

fluxbox with alpine linux has been the most performant setup for me, all the wayland DEs were pretty sluggish

don’t do email until you know what you’re doing imo

what’s the ASHA protocol? I doubt other distros would support it if mint (basically Ubuntu) doesn’t support it

starlabs has one but really expensive

Sorry if I’m wrong, but I’m guessing the problem you have is:

• you’re used to Apple trackpads that are really good
• although other trackpads aren’t exactly unusable or worse in performance, you don’t want to use them because they feel worse

consider using a trackpoint instead of a touchpad, that way you don’t have a point of comparison for it to “feel worse” (trackpoint is superior anyway)

i have the same kinda thing with not wanting to give up my thinkpad keyboard, and ofc i don’t want a modern shitty laptop keyboard but I’ll probably have to swallow it some day

i don’t think there is even wifi support for the iPhone 7 though

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Apple_iPhone_7/7%2B_(apple-d10)

if you haven’t tried mint you should. I had similar opinions about kde neon that you seem to have about Zorin, but I’ve completely dropped recommending neon because mint is just insanely well curated.

how do you verify privacy without access to the source code? open source != privacy but open source helps a ton to verify it

btw the kagi people have been saying they’ll open source it at some point for ages, and in my experience those promises are usually just promises. I’ll believe it when i see it

i don’t think it’s the browser for you if you care about privacy, it’s not even open source

isn’t the argument after bash -c supposed to be one string of the command to be run?

e.g.
bash -c “echo hello”

try a live usb

6.14 is 25.04, not 24.04

if you’re a first timer and already got arch with kde set up you’re pretty fucking tech savvy ngl

systemd timer?

you’re probably making them feel like Linux is second class. kids are smart and they’ll know that elementaryOS isn’t macos. All they’ll think is that they got the “cheap version” or something