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Exactly; a lot of international organisations are already located in Switzerland, so there shouldn't be many gripes with that (also means you aren't at the whims of a global empire in self-destruct mode)

I've been using it without major caveats since October last year. Even tried the proprietary swiping library you can install (it uses the Gboard one iirc, but OFC it can't do shenanigans since it's isolated by the app and not connected to the internet)

Doesn't seem like anyone mentioned it yet, so I'm gonna chime in: Bluefin-DX by Universalblue might be worth a look.

It's a special developer version of their already interesting and rock solid atomic distro, meaning it's not rly meant that you do much with the OS part of the filesystem (I'd recommend you read up on it, since I can't explain it that well) It has VSCode preinstalled (you can replace it with VSCodium tho with a simple command IIRC) and allows you to spin up virtually endless Linux environments where you install your additional programmes that aren't available as a Flatpak (you can still use them in the CLI, DW)

sure, keep insulting people with principles while buying into proprietary software being "open source washed" (for the lack of a better word)

Every time this licenses comes up I have to repeat myself: It's source-available proprietary (free)ware; "source first" is "open source washing" at it's finest

From an old comment of mine:

[...] It strips you of the options the four essential freedoms provide.

IMO ["but protecting muh devs and making it financially viable as a for-profit"] is not rly an argument. Libre software is free as in freedom and not necessarily free as in beer. You could license it under the (A)GPL, charge for downloads in the Play store or for compiled binaries on ur website and ask for donations on F-Droid.

You could even do a freemium version where some features are locked in the binaries you distribute and need a license from ur website or smth (for those who don't want to use Google Play). (iirc SD Maid 2/SE does this)

sauce

E.g.: AFAIK the QT Framework (which I don't particularly like) is dual licensed, making it both Foss that ppl have to contribute back to and viable as a for-profit

Running a community-centred nonprofit is inherently more efficient resources-wise than paying managers and execs piles upon piles of cash in a for-profit scheme

What else? "Ignorant and inexperienced consoomers" doesn't sound very nice...

Love the FUD around Onlyoffice lmao

"Every person from insert current enemy of the West is inherently evil and should be judged by their ethnicity. Everything they touch is inherently bad and should be avoided. You say it's a proven and transparent FOSS application that's one of the best suites right next to Libre office if not better for ppl switching off of M$ Office? Sorry, evil Ruzzians tainted it with their touch, means I have to downgrade it's visibility and mark it in red" seems to be the mentality behind that

least xenophobic/racist liberal

Edit: apparently ppl don't know how free and open source software works... (usually, like in this case, you don't have to pay for it!) Also the company is Latvian, AFAIK some of the staff is just Russian (newsflash, many Latvian citizens are Russian).

valid, I just feel like Gnome is a rly solid base for me, with one of the most intuitive workflows and consistent designs out there

the ecosystem of apps is just superb too

Nowadays it's easy AF pretty much everywhere. Sometimes there are simple GUI tools that get you there with just a few clicks. Hardest it will get is having to look it up in a wiki for the distribution you are using (if it doesn't have them preinstalled) and then following simple step-by-step instructions

My first was Ubuntu 14.04. and then 16.04. at school 💀. as early as 2015 iirc

Though Blackbox or Kali might be a contender too (one of the distros my father had installed for fun)

I had rly cool CS teachers, which also administered our infrastructure

then we used Linux Mint in the "Linux" club run by one of said teachers

For personal use, my first one was Manjaro in 2018 (I switched to it with a Windows dual boot, I got rid of Windows entirely in 2020 I think?). Somewhere I switched to Endeavour OS, tried out OpenSuse Tumbleweed on my laptop and eventually settled on Fedora bc of the Grub fiasco Arch had. Am using it to this day.
Though it's in the form of Nobara on my desktop; I also plan on switching to Bluefin eventually