I hope that after the fine goes into action he loses more investors further deminishing his wealth

does not matter to me if the actual fine is lower when in the end he pays a higher price. (but big numbers are nice so: go europe)

Lived in germany. Litterally 3 world country when it comes to internet. And i was not in some village but Berlin

Its going to be 1GB node_modules handled by garbage ai code
ai is only good at doing smaller scripts but loosing connections and understandment in larger codebases, combined with people who cant program well (i mean not only coding but debugging… as well) also called vibe programmers its going to be a mess

if a product claims it has vibecoding: find an alternative!

I have e os based on murena. At least there they try their best to replace the google play services. If you have an old phone somewhere that does not get updates anymore you could safely try it out

If wine does not work try adding the game in steam and use proton that way.

For ppx SoftMaker is better, for Documents that have objekts can leave the paperarea (even partial) like circles i suggest using LibreOffice draw

I cant switch to something else because ii am so used to transparency layers

Then Bazzite might be interesting for you too as SteamOS is from what i got more specialised for handheld

learn how to make and recover a windows backup. Then actually make a backup. (even if you dont switch, backups are amazing)

Test some Linux systems in a VM like VirtualBox to get a feeling which OS and desktop enviroment you like the most. Maybe start with Mint, Suse Tumbleweed & Ubuntu

See which Applications you need and if they run on Linux or if you need to get an alternative (like Office -> Libreoffice/SoftMaker)

If you play games with a kernel Anticheat like Valo you have to consider running a Windows VM or to look for an alternative. If booth options are not acceptible for you then :/

Make sure you can access everything like emails & co where you might have lost the 2 factor on the VM (at least i lost access to gmail a few months ago on the switch and its an absolute pain to get access back, luckely was not my main)

I like Vivaldi https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/de/reports/com.vivaldi.browser/latest/

Brave did have some bad habits (and i think still has) so personally i would not trust them with my data. You could look for a firefox based browser like Zen (the most beautyful of them all) or stick to any other privacy first chromium based like vivaldi or mullvad.

The general rule: the less features, the more privacy And if features are needed there are addons

Absolutly me

But i think the starting OS depends on the person.

I never would give Arch to my grandmother or something but most of my siblings would be better off with arch than mint. But even then there could be poeple that would be happier with another distro that is not a rolling release

I knew that there where some larger masto servers that tried to stay neutral but at least a lot of them switched when meta basically said they remove fact checking and let sexism and racism run ranpant without any consequences