As a privacy forward individual, which gnu/linux distribution do you prefer to use and why?
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I have been using Mint for a few years and love it because its simple to use for a not too techy person.
I started on mint to save an old computer and have been playing around with different distros to get the feel of them and which work best on the old laptops my kids use for school. My wife is using Manjaro now, but for my daily use I prefer Debian with i3wm because I work in the work truck a lot and all the keyboard shortcuts and tiling help a lot.
If you wanted something lighter than Mint you could also try Lubuntu or Linux Lite, all three are good options for older hardware though 👍🏻 in my experience something usually breaks with Manjaro after a while... might just be me though 😂 your personal set-up sounds solid and practical 👌🏼
The more comfortable I get with customizing Debian the more I view the features in Mint as obstacles. I find Debian with LXQt is light enough for most of my old laptops. I've even got a Toshiba Satellite from 2009 running LXQt with i3wm. It can't do everyting, but it's impressive.
It's amazing what a bit of linux bootstrapping can do to old hardware 😎 i think that if more people realised this, and how user friendly Linux actually is these days, we would be able to massively reduce e-waste
https://www.whonix.org for the win!
I use KVM not Qubes option for the host, but Qubes is certainly prettier.
I've heard about whonix but never actually tried it. I'll have to look deeper, thanks.
I use Pop!_OS and Ubuntu on desktops and Debian and Ubuntu on servers.
I've stayed away from Ubuntu on desktop for many years. About five years ago it seemed really buggy and kept breaking on me, it could've also been my own failings at that time, but i've heard Ubuntu has got a lot better in the past year or two 👌🏼 but along with Debian, they're of course solid server setups
