Obtainium is pretty good to get apps from the git repos directly, Librera is pretty good to read and track the progress of the books you are reading, Termux based terminal for android, Feeder for rss feeds, newpipe to watch youtube. Aurora store for proprietary google play apps that you have to install cause work and whatnot (also has anonymous mode, so you don't need a google account).
Keyboard: OpenBoard
Webbrowser: iceraven
Calendar: Calendar (By Fossifyorg)
Maybe debian or fedora, something that isn't too advanced
Linux mint I would say its the one that tends to have better support in a large amount of hardware and it was the first one that I was able to stick with
I have recently unlocked the bootloader of one xiaomi phone and it was kinda annoying imo, you basically have to wait (7 days I think, or more) when using the official unlocker of the xiaomi website for them to unlock the bootloader (without it you can't degoogle the phone).
There is a lot more telemetry then usual, its China + google that are collecting all your data instead of just google if it was a pixel phone for example. The good side is that there is support for custom roms like lineageOS and its derivatives but I would much rather pick a pixel and put grapheneOS in it if the price wasnt a issue or if you could grab one second-handed.
Besides that, I guess if I was buying regardless I would try unlock the bootloader and install the a custom rom like lineageOS as fast as possible.
You can install them like any other package from dnf/apt and then run them with startX (if its X11) or start them via their name if they are Wayland compositors (all this in the tty, the black screen with just letter outputs)
I am using void at the moment, pretty stable even tho it is rolling release
Nice, lets keep the moment going. Another great year for Linux and open source.
I have nvidia and its been working for me
I have been using Wayland on void for a while and have no particular issue with it. There is screen sharing on stuff like zoom that isn't working at the moment (unless you use gnome) which is a bit annoying but not really serious enough to force a change to xorg. Also Wayland has more clean code then xorg and I do like the potential it has, specially when it comes to security.
Nothing against xorg, if you can use Wayland its better imo but otherwise xorg is fine as well.
Obtainium is pretty good
Lets gooo
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