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  • Kmail suite for mails, cloud… (Switzerland ) they have a free plan (15GO for the cloud, and the cheapest paid plan is 2e/month for 1TO (20e/year ).

    Threema for discussions (Switzerland) . the application is 5e, definitv not cheap for an app, but it is a one time paiement.
    Swisscows (Switzerland), mullvad Leta (Sweden) as search engine. => they do not use their own index system but brave or google (you can choose for mullvad)

    All those options are Europeans and have strong privacy policies.







  • For gaming and having it work out of the box ?

    • Based on Debian : pikaOS
    • Based on fedora : Nobara
    • Based on Atomic fedora : Bazzite
    • Based on Arch : CachyOS
    • Based onUbuntu : PopOS (not so sure about its current state, their cosmic desktop isn’t released yet)

    Beginner friendly : Mint, most of gaming distro (cachy might be a bit more advanced )

    I do not know much about the current state of snaps, so I won’t recommend Ubuntu and derivatives (kubuntu, Xubuntu…). I guess it is easier to use .deb now, but I can’t call beginner friendly a distro that require terminal or tweaks to change packages you can install on it.


  • Murena ? as the murena foundation that develop /e/OS ? If yes, their OS is based on LineageOS microG edition with a great ad/tracker blocker and an app store that is kind of a fusion between the aurora store and fdroid (without the ability to add repositories unfortunately, in the version I used at least).

    So you can install whatever apps you want with it(Except maybe android auto, I guess). I had my banking app and it worked well (until it detected I was root).

    I used it with my oneplus 7, It had some big trouble these last months as their servers were outdated and they needed to update their whole infrastructure. Now, everything seems to be back to normal.

    I can not say for their phones (murena 1 and 2), but their OS is solid to me.



  • 7 months distro hopping sober here ! All thanks to CachyOS.

    The installation is seamless thanks to calamares, there are some graphic tools that can help for beginners on arch. Their kernel might be one of the most optimised one to have a smooth experience while gaming. I do not play ressources hungry games, so I can not really tell.

    After setting snapshots, I decided to experience it totally blind folded, just to see how long I can last on it. I update the system around 2 times a week, never read any changelog, just like any of the other distro I used… And for now, I’ve never had any trouble.

    My system seems to be way smoother and more responsive than with fedora or tumbleweed.

    I use my computer mostly for steam, heroic, librewolf and LibreOffice.


  • Why not ? There is so much mods that you can play new adventures, with the feeling of being at home.

    The base game is full of flaws, but the community makes it really enjoyable.

    The balance of skills, the graphics, even the story can be changed. That’s why I like to play it again and again. I can play a Skyrim that people built. And with the perks mod, I can build so much differents characters, I really love that.

    And with skyblivion coming this year, I’m not even close to stop playing it.




  • I use /e/OS on my OP7.

    • Their tracker/ad blocker is great.
    • Their app store has a rating about privacy/tracker for each apps.
    • They implemented tor in the OS, and you can choose if you want to activate it and for which application.
    • They have a mock location feature.
    • I get monthly update, and it works smoothly.
    • You do not need to use murena account to use the OS

    For the drawbacks :

    • They have an app store that can install both applications from the play store and from Fdroid, but it isn’t very convenient as you can’t add Fdroid repos, nor uninstall applications with it. (and I’m unable to use it to install applications from the play store for more than a month, I’ve installed the aurora store )
    • Most of their system applications are open sources applications available from Fdroid but with a different icon and name.
    • Their navigation application named “Maps” is a rebrand of magic earth.

    It’s all I have in mind at this moment.

    When I’ll change for a fairphone, before turning to /e/OS, I’ll probably try iodé OS. It seems they have similar privacy /anti-ad features but the OS might be less bloated and the system app are not rebranded, they keep their original name and icons.




  • Vanilla gnome isn’t for me so I used to install some extensions when I used it.

    After a few hopping, I stopped using Gnome, because I find that painful to :

    • install the extension app (the one that allow you to download and manage the extensions, and that is usually not the one installed, it might have changed, as I stopped using Gnome for a year or even more)
    • install the extensions I want
    • configure the extensions

    On KDE, I just have to set it as I need it.

    If you do not change distributions everyday, then it’s not a big issue I guess.

    But it might be troublesome for beginners trying distributions that have vanilla-close gnome to know that extensions exist. My needs are not complicated, so I only used extensions that allow me to have a dock on both of my screens, and to have the minimize button.