There's OpenStreetMap for maps, and Bluetooth audio for music.
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Not enough people here saying Debian. /j
I personally have some telemetry on. Just like you, I like to think I'm helping the devs.
You can, just go to the sidebar and press Pair new device.
ext4 works perfectly fine for me and most people.
I usually just carry around a few ISOs with Ventoy. More specifically, a Win10 ISO, Ubuntu ISO, Arch ISO, Tails (not iso but who cares), and a few others that I wanna be able to install if I ruin my current system to the point I can't boot it properly. I just noticed I still need a Fedora ISO. After watching the LTT video too, I'm looking into all of those cool utilities too, don't have any recommendations yet tho.
From what I know, they are one of the companies endorsed by the FSF, so I'm assuming they're good as in good with Linux and open source. For the quality of their products, I assume they work at least good enough. The specs of their PCs seem fine for the prices.
Overall, they seem to be good, especially good if you went far down the libre rabbit hole. I want to note here that they don't seem to donate to / sponsor any open-source organizations (like KDE), unlike Tuxedo.
Also remember that the stuff that's being talked about is probably more known around the community, so it's possible that just not that many people know about them.
I personally would probably buy their accessories, but maybe not their computers. This is my personal opinion that I made from ~30 minutes of research and a bit of previous knowledge from a youtube video I watched yesterday, you should make up your own with more research before deciding to buy from them.
I think you should take a look at these:
openSUSE, Pop!_OS, Mint, Nobara, Endeavour, Arco, Arch
According to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/security#Use_Wayland
6.5 Use Wayland
Prefer using Wayland over Xorg. Xorg's design predates modern security practices and is considered insecure by many. For example, Xorg applications may record keystrokes while inactive.
If you must run Xorg, it is recommended to avoid running it as root. Within Wayland, the Xwayland compatibility layer will automatically use rootless Xorg.
X is less secure.
I have a 3x3 desktop grid in plasma, it works great for me on my laptop, but I don't think I could use it without touchpad gestures. I would probably have less or none if I had a big screen.
I have randomized oh-my-zsh prompts when using zsh, and the default starship prompt when using bash