I think it's free but you have to buy or bring a domain

the screenshot does not look like nautilus, maybe xfce?

Macs are not really what I think of when reading "middle of the road linux"

this is the only right way

there is a base implementation basically all compositors are based on

I get why they do it though - any change to win10 needs testing and so on and might not be welcomed by the user base. You can always download a free (as in freedom) image editor, some are even on the Microsoft Store. Be glad they did not backport all the bad sides of win11...

Hey hey hold on a minute, while I agree with your first sentence the second one I have to disagree with. They are not even close to what nazi germany did. Although they are working on it...

I was talking about the history on device, of course I agree: never expect privacy on a device controlled by someone else.

I can confirm there are places where that is possible.

Also as long as they do not whitelist executables, you could use a portable version of a browser.

well probably except on iOS, there you have to use Safari