There might be things Meta isn’t allowed to do with WhatsApp. Also the concept of account is bit blurry on WhatsApp because you basically login with your phone number and an SMS code sent to your device. This wouldn’t work as well for a service that can be used elsewhere.
Well, in the case of Bitwarden the client is open source so it can actually be reviewed whether or not it is actually encrypted. No need to trust anyone.
In my opinion, Signal isn’t trying to be a Matrix alternative. Anonymity between users isn’t their objective, they mostly want to be a none profit alternative to WhatsApp, Messenger, etc… with strong E2E encryption. Phone numbers is ultimately the best way to discover new users as soon as you install the app.
I’m fine about ads on Signal. It is a none profit. 😉
Yes same problem here. At least I haven’t ran into a case where I couldn’t start a game because of this.
The issue with replacement for YouTube is that it needs to be both sustainable AND pay the professional content creator. This is not an easy task and the main reason why alternatives are usually running behind a subscription service.
At the end of day, games are just proprietary binary blobs so them being native or not doesn’t make a huge difference. Lets be honest, native Linux game used to be second class citizen anyway even when officially supported, at least Proton does a really good job running those Windows games.
If you want something that just works, PopOS is a great option yes. If you feel more adventurous you can go on something more bleeding edge (they are called like this for a reason) like EndeavourOS which is arch derivative.
If you are running W11 with Secure Boot enabled, then I would recommend you to go with Fedora as I don’t think either PopOS or EndeavourOS supports it.
Oh this is cool! People were implying that it was running because they probably turned off EAC for some time but it is actually official now!
For me it is Fedora as well. Before that I was using EndeavourOS but wanted to use something a bit more stable. Haven’t distrohoped since!