I am a longtime user of Linux and I am pretty normal. All the Linux users I know are also pretty normal. If there’s a Linux user that is not normal, it’s not because of Linux.
To someone who might benefit from dropping Windows for Linux, I would argue that it’s free, it’s much simpler, no one will try to sell you anything, you can let it do software updates in the background and you won’t be abetting genocide. Or billionaires.
Your eyes are fine. It’s AI that can’t be trusted.
Feeder on my phone is my go-to source of information about the things I’m interested in on a daily basis. That and The Guardian is all I need.
AI is a financial scam. Basically companies that are already mature promise great future profits thanks to this new technological miracle, which makes their stock more valuable than it otherwise would be. Cory Doctorow has written eloquently about this.
Duckduckgo, on the other hand …
There are no banking apps on my computer.
It seems to me that part of the problem is overreliance on phones as computing devices. A lot of things, like banking, are best done on an actual computer. We have become too dependent on phones.
Gil Duran has written a good analysis of Peter Thiel’s obsession with the Antichrist: https://newrepublic.com/article/200471/peter-thiel-obsession-antichrist-religion?ref=thenerdreich.com .
To put it simply this is one vary influential and dangerous lunatic.
Actually I don’t need any of those things you mention. It may be a mistake to assume that Linux phones should imitate Google/Apple phones.
I did the same earlier this year for exactly this reason. Glad to know I’m in such good company.
Why would “Linux” want to get more users, whatever “Linux” is.
Boycott Microsoft.
You can also install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint: https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-kde-plasma-on-linux-mint-22/. My own distro right now is TuxedoOS with KDE Plasma (Can go on any hardware, not just Tuxedo computers) and it works great for me.
Hey, now that we have this obscene energy-wasting capability, let’s see what other ways there are to generate equally obscene profits!