You will always have to interact with these company's servers at some point. Stay in control, but don't obsess. What matters is getting further away. You have succeeded in many ways by taking these steps. Do not lose sight of that.
mpv my beloved
Could you provide some criteria for what you’re looking for in the way of security? Wayland is far better for security than Xorg, but it’s hard to say how much it varies between wayland compositors. I can’t imagine it would matter too much, but depending on how much security you’re looking for, choosing more minimal software is probably better. Rust can be better for security but I’m not entirely sure how much can really get compromised through poor memory management in a window manager.
GNOME 45 Mainly because of libadwaita 1.4 being released with its newfangled widgets
The repository you linked has sadly not been updated in 9 years
I love NixOS. I run it on my home server. However, I can’t daily drive it. I need something a little less rigid to do my day to day work. Although it is greatly satisfying to have everything reproducible, it isn’t always practical to dedicate the time to making it so.
Why is this the sanest thing? There are many people that enjoy using gnome including myself. Don’t you think this is an extreme take for something that just doesn’t align with your views on how the Linux desktop should be?
They… took out a panel
Spoken like a true Arch Linux user
Gitea is light and fast so I highly recommend it. If you are worried about it being a for profit company, then use the fork, but if they haven’t done any harm, I’d said give them a shot.
Stop supporting those who intend to close it.
Never say never!