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I remember downloading Slackware and copying it on floppies lol

I'm thinking about whonix+qubes... Just because it's the best... https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes/Install

The main problem that I heard is that it is power hungry for some reason

Did you delete the partition? Or quick format?

thats your opinion... I think they will honor a warrant any day... I.E.: Plz enable logs and let me look at them

Russia may be worst, but I doubt that they will share data with the USA and I will never visit Russia.

Do you really think that a VPN provider would resist requests from the US gov?

if you can see a server is sending 167 packets of X size and you can see a client is receiving the same, it doesnt matter that it goes through a VPN? You probably also could time the packets... or decrypt them if they are encrypted using a CA

thats good but Im also worried about the useless changes that they make... so after 365 days I would start getting constant useless updates anyways

I cant find the website right now, but you can some similarly priced vps here: https://lowendbox.com/

wish you could install only security updates

If you don't host your own VPN, what's the difference