I honestly tought they had abandoned “native” encryption on btrfs itself, after seeing that it works perfectly fine with LUKS and dm-crypt. Glad to see this is actually being developed.
Can’t wait for the day where you can just create a key, use a TPM or U2F to store it and let btrfs handle the rest
And you can also install packages from the Arch testing repos - which I really wouldn’t want to - but it’s entirely up to you.
I appreciate the work that goes into testing and patching stuff for Arch a lot. I don’t want my OS to break for no good reason. Getting an update a month earlier is no good reason.
You mean like DDG, which had multiple privacy whoopsies like allowing Microsoft to track you? Or (in contrast to Brave) is not even OSS?
I think the owners previous company may have sold users data.
You mean like the founder and CEO of DDG who build, ran and sold a social network?
Not saying “don’t use DDG” or “Brave is the coolest!!!11”, but be aware that you can use your arguements against Brave against DDG as well.
And if you’re looking for a better alternative, I would say Ecosia is probably among the cleanest players out there. They only benefit Microsoft, because their service is built on Bing (as is DDG in part btw.).
The reason I am on lemmy.world is that so far, they have basically blocked nothing and that is the experience I'm looking for. I want to be the one who decides what I see.
That said, others prefer a more curated experience and thus choose other instances. That's the beauty of the fediverse, you can have both.
I mean, you use Linux with Nvidia, some trouble is basically guaranteed. I've heard it has gotten better, but there used to be tons of problems and now there are just fewer tons.
As for quality Desktop experiences: There are a lot, but Kubuntu I've also tried and found to be a buggy mess and Manjaro is kinda controversial in the Arch bubble - because it's an attempt to make Arch less Arch (and buggy as well).
I'll just list some distros you might want to try:
Endeavor OS
Basically preconfigured, but quite vanilla Arch
Garuda OS
Depending on your choice of ISO, more or less heavily customized Arch
Providing useful tools as well as fallback options in case some update goes wrong
Depending on the ISO quite lightweight, but might be gamery themed
Sparky Linux
Choice between Debian Testing and Stable for more or less frequent updates
Debian, but more friendly toward new users
simple, lightweight
Peppermint OS
Debian based
Actually good looking XFCE
Unique selling point: Open websites respectively web apps in dedicated browser instances, linked on the desktop like regular apps
openSUSE
A classic; Standalone with the chocie between a rolling and a versioned release
Maybe a bit more stable rolling than Arch
Solid support by corporate software, less community support than on Arch (due to the community being smaller)
I'm very curious how this is going to play out. This mostly concerns the core userbase, as in mods and the people who are the most active on Reddit. If a significant portion of those wanders off (or is straight up banned), I could see the platform desolate slowly and painfully.
I mean, they lose content and moderation. I would be very surprised if they can replace the volunteers and still maintain the quality of the moderation.
Regarding 5., I mean, you pointed out your way around that yourself. Create your account elsewhere. Lemmy is FOSS. If the devs do act shitty, one can fork their stuff and everyone can put it on their instances anyway.
While I don't want to defend them, because I did not investigate it further, I do have to say that I didn't see anything weird on their profiles. Moreover, I totally get that they don't really want to moderate their instances more than they absolutely have to. As in "if it's not illegal, I don't care."
It creates a shitton of work and moral dilemmas, plus you have do deal with bad shit every single day.