Been using it for a couple years, my main ones currently are:

• VR. SteamVR is a broken mess, Monado is pretty much functional, but I haven't switched yet. Mesa or the kernel sometimes forget about VR and break it in an update.
• QT5 to QT6 transition for my favorite Matrix client, Nheko. Scrolling is a pain, and the clipboard randomly stops working.
• Wayland freedom and featureset is nowhere close to X11. I can't choose a window manager without locking myself in to a specific featureset on my display server. Stuff like global hotkeys isn't supported in most applications. I'm still on the godawful GNOME desktop portals, which is most annoying for file picking. I have no HDR support because my window manager isn't from KDE or GNOME.
• GTK4 apps looking like shit (there are patches luckily), I try to avoid them just because of libadwaita and GNOME's awful design.

On the note of Wayland, I have switched, and for good reason. Besides unimplemented features, things "just work" a lot better than X11. Still wish I could have effectively bspwm window management with kwin featureset though. (Plugins for tiling are not the same experience)

The version from their F-Droid repo, SchildiChat[f], has no Google libraries. The version from the playstore includes proprietary blobs to support Firebase Cloud Messaging (Google notifications system). Exodus may be misidentifying this as "Google Admob", which is not present in the app.

This is heavily sensationalized. UEFI "secure boot" has never been "secure" if you (the end user) trust vendor or Microsoft signatures. Alongside that, this ""backdoor"" (diagnostic/troubleshooting tool) requires physical access, at which point there are plenty of other things you can do with the same result.

Yes, the impact is theoretically high, but it's the same for all the other vulnerable EFI applications MS and vendors sign willy-nilly. In order to get a properly locked-down secure boot, you need to trust only yourself.

When you trust Microsoft's secure boot keys, all it takes is one signed EFI application with an exploit to make your machine vulnerable to this type of attack.

Another important part is persistence, especially for UEFI malware. The only reason it's so easy is because Windows built-in "factory reset" is so terrible. Fresh installing from a USB drive can easily avoid that.

Discord is one of the greedy AI companies training on your data

I was very annoyed when I got this, but remembered that it's KDE, and turning it off is 4 clicks. Proprietary software often doesn't allow you to turn this off (easily). Windows has this "feature", where is the setting?

I don't think it's a productive "feature", but considering it can be turned off so easily I don't consider it a complete showstopper.

This person does not understand open source or Android whatsoever. They talk a decent bit about "default installed apps", without properly understanding what most of them even are. They complain about some apps "being out of date" when installing CalyxOS, calling it "concerning" that they're not on the latest version out of the box, as if they couldn't update the apps themselves. The whole "review" feels more like an iPhone user trying to switch to Android for the first time, being confused because it's different, and complaining about it because they don't understand it.

The main benefits of CalyxOS lie under the hood. It's built to be more secure out of the box, and doesn't connect everywhere without consent like most other Android ROMs. If you're fine with the privacy and security of using something like LineageOS, CalyxOS doesn't have much extra to offer.

Yes. There's only 3 major browsers. Chromium (Chrome), Firefox, WebKit (Safari). Nearly every other webbrowser is a fork of one of these, most are forks of Chromium, including Opera. As such, most webbrowsers will be affected by the change.

Lets go through the summary and see if anything is wrong or misleading:

Linutil is a distro-agnostic toolbox designed to simplify everyday Linux tasks. It helps you set up applications and optimize your system for specific use cases. The utility is actively developed in Rust 🦀, providing performance and reliability.

• It is not distro agnostic. There is Arch and Fedora specific code, which are not separated into modules, but part of other scripts. Outside of the package manager, it also relies heavily on systemd.
• Installing "Diablo II Resurrected loot filters" is not an "everyday task". A lot of other scripts are similar, very specific, "one time use" things, not "everyday tasks".
• helps you set up applications, maybe, but only if you count running sudo pacman -S networkmanager as "helping", even when it ignores existing network configuration.
• "optimize your system for specific use cases", it does nothing of the sort. There's no kernel parameter tweaking, no other cpu scheduler, no IO options being changed, or anything remotely similar.
• "The utility is actively developed in Rust" except for the ~70% that is shell scripts. (according to GitHub)
• "Providing performance and reliability", which is not something that's determined by the programming language.

So lets revise the short description, to exclude any incorrect/misleading statements:

Linutil is a toolbox. The utility is actively developed.

Alongside all that, the "installation instructions" include the biggest sin of all:

curl -fsSL https://christitus.com/linux | sh

TL;DR Never trust Chris Titus, or any "Linux YouTuber", with your Linux machine. They do not know what the hell they're doing.

This person uses an 8GB mac, and tried to defend Apple in the debate, going as far as to say that Apple hardware is "not that expensive", and within 2 months regrets buying the 8gb mac.

They think Open Source is "overrated", insecure, and not important. They think Linux users are "normies" and fakers, Linux is not a desktop OS, and have explicitly stated "F*** LINUX".

That's a lot of terrible opinions in just 4 months, especially for someone who calls the internet "stupid", and supposedly doesn't have any education.

This is either a troll account, or someone with less than zero credibility considering their opinions and statements.

Since the EFI partition is unencrypted, physical access would do the trick here too, even with every firmware/software security measure.

As if iMessage, the platform that requires hardware from a specific company, is much better.

I can personally vouch for how toxic the Discord server and its moderators/admins are. Went there for support (Hyprland was crashing on startup on AMD, sway worked fine), and was told something along the lines of "if you can't figure this out you're stupid and you should stop using Linux". Figured out the issue on my own and stopped using and recommending Hyprland after that.