I wonder if more Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite-related code was merged.

Aurora is cool, if you’re okay with using an immutable distro. It is Fedora Atomic-based with KDE on top, so it is stable, but relevant. All necessary drivers are set up out of the box, but less pre-installed apps than Bazzite.

Have you tried Audile or Audire?

While your post is just: it doesn’t work on my computer, so Linux is bad for a normal user.

if you want this shit to become standard

Since when Google is interested in promoting jxl and not webp?

Also, gesture typing keyboards are an empty niche of foss alternatives. HelioBoard requires loading some proprietary blob unfortunately.

FlorisBoard is on the way to implement swype-typing. Unfortunately, it is unlikely to be very soon.

basic photo editor to crop, rotate, color correct, add text

ImageToolbox can do almost everything you described.

basic video editor to crop, clip, and combine video

Have you tried Open Video Editor?

•uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one •Privacy Badger - blocks trackers •Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.

You don’t need all of that as once. Privacy Badger and Ghostery are redundant with uBlock Origin and Total Cookie Protection. Source: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother.

Also, Ghostery is kinda shady in terms of opt-out tracking and showing ads to its own users. I don’t know if they still do it, but my trust is already shattered and I see no reason to keep using Ghostery.

Measures are cool, but a bunch of people would start to complain about telemetry. And opt-in telemetry in this kind of metrics is not relevant.

I would have preferred Rust, a language created by Mozilla instead of one with ties to Apple, but I’m not dev so I can’t really judge. What are your thoughts?

I don’t know anything about Swift, but people like to ignore the fact, that Rust is not entirely free, as it fails to exercise freedom 3.
tl;dr: Rust Foundation don’t want you to apply modifications to their language without “explicit approval”.
And you are also limited to share modified versions of their software.

(If someone can imply, that Python and Perl have similiar restriction — they are not the same, because both of their trademarks protect usage of software against fraud, but you can freely patch and modify it.)

For me personally, seeing LadyBird not choosing Rust as their main language is very promising. Rust software is everywhere now and this is concerning.

Nice.

It has a proprietary Google’s implementation.

FlorisBoard is my favourite FLOSS Android keyboard. Waiting for swype-typing feature to be implemented to it.

No, it is. How could it be simplier? Install Ventoy and then just drag 'n drop your ISOs to usb drive. Why Rufus is beginner friendly and Ventoy is not?

Ventoy weirdos? Ventoy is just a solid and convenient program to create live usbs. What’s the problem with it?

four programs to make Linux boot media

Or you can use one Ventoy to make a boot media with four Linux ISOs.

That’s a nice piece of propaganda there.

Accrescent devs claims about closed-source software and third party repos isn’t a propaganda?

It’s not harming anyone. You can still install FDroid as you wish.

Likewise you can choose not to install closed-source apps.

No, it’s misconception. Optionally free Is not enough.

=> Windows (for an awful long time)
=> Ubuntu (a few months or so)
=> Windows (over a year and a half)
=> Fedora + Windows dual-boot (half a year)
=> Windows (a few months or so)
=> openSUSE TW + Windows dualboot (a year)
=> openSUSE TW without dualboot (over a half a year already).

It was a long run on trying to escape Windows, but I managed to do it. As of today, I’m still using openSUSE. I like it very much and I have no plans on distrohopping or returning back to Windows.

I use KDE, because it runs perfectly on wayland and covers 100% of my needs.
Budgie looks very promising now and I want to explore it further. Also LXQT is perfect for older devices or if you want a KDE, but simplier.