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Right, but still quite affordable compared to similar solution with Proton IMHO

Yeah, best combo for me too

You can try Frost, a web wrapper for Facebook: get in on F-Droid here.

You can also run it isolated using Shelter, another app on F-Droid, get it here.

Same for me, XFCE is light, stable and efficient. I believe that's the reason it's chosen for Debian as default DE

According to their Wiki, other Distros (including DE) are not supported/documented and if you do it's at your own risk. Personally, I wouldn't dare trying that.

Dell provides XPS laptop with Ubuntu on it. It works great and Ubuntu can be replaced with other distro ( I did successfully tested Mint and now Debian 11)

Works OK but makes your connection slow as hell... Not really useful for daily usage.

I don't think so, mostly it's hardening, and few security related software, all FOSS

The kicksecure documentation is well written. Go here for distro-morphing of Debian 12, step by step things to do are pretty explicit and you can even copy the command lines if you think you'll make a mistake...

You have a link?

This is the best choice IMHO. You have a rock solid OS (Debian) and all possible taken measures to harden it with Kicksecure patch.

OpenBoard with gestures? Where? Version 1.4.5 has no gestures, and it's the last one... And three is no search feature for emoji, it's in the ToDo list