I was a long time lineageOS user and love the freedom of changing anything. I switched to grapheneOS and like it, but miss some features, that are just pointless and not relatable: no full AMOLED dark mode - the devs said the battery savings between dark and pure dark isn’t relevant. and the other thing is: why is the white bar on the bottom not removable?

Because of these things I switched back to lineageOS and realised how dumb it is because of two optical features. GOS is definitely worth to look over two missing features and I switched back to GOS.

Anyway the most interesting transition from an lineage user to an grapheneOS user is, you realise that root isn’t useful and more risk than fun.

Did near the same vote, these tracks looks good.

Immich is easy to handle with standard proxy settings, nothing special. My caddy entry for immich is the typical one liner from caddy.

TLS is if you are use immich behind a proxy. If you just use it in your network there is no need for TLS.

Well, there is this one: https://ladybird.org/

Wait there is more, installing Arch with knowing about the existence of “archinstall” and without.

Nice list, looks like I did near the same. Just an advice, what I did, after years of using Lenovos I searched especially for used Dell XPS laptops with TPM Chips < 2.0. These high level laptops are perfectly for Linux and since they are not win 11 compatible, they are cheap.

But how about second party tracking?

Okay, I can find my own way out.

Interesting, but how? The only way I see is implement new standards, spread them and make them easy accessible. DoH, DoT and DoQ for example are some nice standards to encrypt DNS. But it isn’t easy for everybody to use them, easiest one I can think about is DoT on Android, but how many Android users use it?

How about jmap? There is a new mail standard but near nobody supports it, and did they really miss to give this standard an encryption on it’s side by default?

Oh I remember r/privacy, this comment is spot on. You expect something like the Linux communities where it is okay what ever you prefer. But privacy-nerds sometimes goes the spying government/tech-firms rabbit-hole to deep.

Gentoo. Not that bad for a random pick.

First, nothing. But I run just my private containers and update them automatically with watchtower. I like it when I could don’t care about things. OCIS was one of the freaky ones. Breaking changes are literally breaking everything. I lose the data and start over two or three times. (The data wasn’t completely lost, I had backups and/or was able to use an older version instead.)

I had good and bad times with both. I am finally happy with “pydio cells”

The software philosophy of the maintainers and their choice of packages and design.

A simple but important difference: the package-manager: apt, dnf or pacman (there is more but let’s bring it down to these three).

Another one is security: apparmor or selinux

The last one are preferred and preinstalled Desktop-Environments.

And if you want to keep it simple, just be based on another distro and let them do the hard work.

Everyone can start their own distro. Manage some packages together, choose for example: Based on Arch, pacman, selinux and hyprland-wm and name it hypearch. Et voila!

Expensive just for something like coffee: Mac

Thx, looks like that’s the info I’ve missed.

But isn’t appimage the closest one to the app-system from Android? Since things could be really different on many clients an “app-container” is the best solution.

Why not containerise everything? You need libreoffice? No problem, here is a docker or podman container.

BTW. I like flatpak, too. It’s the most stable, but I never understand it’s mechanics. There is always another pack installed, freecode, gtk, qt whatever. Even if the system has already the correct gtk version, nope, the dev decided to use the gtk image from Ubuntu.

I could follow it a bit. CalDAV is mostly nerd stuff. And proprietary apps use to disallow CalDav to sell their own stuff. Best example: M$ Outlook doesn’t support CalDAV natively. You can only add them as only read, or use third party addons. And why? Because they want you to buy 365.

Look at it as the average Bob: wow you can sync all your contacts and Calenders and Tasks to every device? That must be expensive!

Doom should be possible.

I would recommend Matrix, tried all others, too. A bonus idea you could take a look at: https://github.com/balzack/databag