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  • Mullvad is the most private a VPN company can get. They literally accept cash by mail.

    Mullvad is RAM only for a few months by now, no log since forever and regularly contributes to privacy related topics.

    The thing is: you can’t trust a company when they say they are no log or RAM only. But you can trust what info you give them. Mullvad only has my IPs. No info about who I am otherwise. I send them 30€ twice a year and that’s it.

    BUT: they don’t allow port forwarding anymore, if you need that, so they are not perfect.


  • Well chrome should, yes. But they don’t.
    Then some JavaScript framework developers think “well this non-standard feature is neat, let’s use that everywhere” and then companies who use their framework (or a framwork dependent on it) can’t support all browsers.

    It’s a multilayered problem (as always) with lots of individually decisions that make sense, but don’t work out in the end (as always).















  • Sorry, but this guide is all over the place.

    You mention Arch before other distros and never even explain what a distros is (e.g. ‘a flavor of Linux with a choice of preinstalled software’).

    Then you say that it’s a beginners and not an advanced tutorial, but mention advanced distros.

    Also your reasons for the beginner distros are not well written:

    1. Fedora mentions “rightful backlash against the company”
    2. Linux Mint “I haven’t used”
    3. Pop OS “shares some issues”

    Why take one of them? They all sound difficult or weird. (to a newby reader)

    Then the part about Ubuntu and Manjaro which is longer than the 3 distros you recommend. This has major “Linux fanboy bashing other Linux fanboys” vibes.

    The rest I really liked, maybe replace “this era” with “its era”.



  • It has to do with Linux.

    Linux itself is not a fully fledged operating system as most people would expect it. Since Linux has to work on servers and microchips as well as on desktop PCs, lots of stuff is not shipped with it.

    For example Linux is missing a way to display windows and has no real package manager.

    A distro (or distribution) is a predefined set of of software, that makes it easier for a user to use Linux.

    This is mostly a window manager or desktop environment like KDE or GNOME, a package manager like apt or pacman and useful software like an office suite, a browser and other stuff.

    Distros also exist for servers, the ln they don’t include a way to display images, but still have a package manager and other useful stuff preinstalled.

    That’s of course not all, but maybe gives you a little overview.