I'm not sure if that's true, as far as I know brave is completely de-googled while not being based on de-googled chromium.

Yeah those are 2 good points that I didn't think about when writing my comment. I guess they aren't bad in terms of the fact that they spy on you (browser like brave don't and brave has a built in ad blocker so it is mostly unefected by manifest v3).

But chromium is bad in terms that it is so dominant in the browser space that google can just do things like manifest v3 and no one does anything about it because they won't even consider for a moment that firefox is a viable alternative.

People almost stair at me in disgust when they see me using firefox because they think it's a terrible browser even thought they don't really know why. I think that goes to show how excellent of a job Google has done brainwashing everyone to think chrome is the only browser worth considering.

Overall I love competition and using the less popular competing product, since it's the only way you can stop for proffit companies from screwing it's users over.

What is lineage os Android TV? Couldn't find it anywhere on my search engine.

Also I don't know what people mean by "the wall that is nvidia on linux" I have been using my gtx 1660 on Linux and it just works. Since I use bazzite you can select your gpu model before downloading the iso file and it preinstalls nvidia proprietary drivers. I'm not sure what it's like on other distros but it seems fine.

In fact I also have an rx 6700xt but unfortunately I could not get a display output on Linux no matter what I tried. So for me nvidia has been better than amd on Linux.

Depending on your ISP sometimes you can just call them, ask to opt out of cg-nat and they will do it for free.

That's true, but when I said switch to chrome I ment the official google Chrome which Google makes not a chromium fork. Just because it uses chromium doesn't mean it's bad.

I've had the same experience with vpn's requiring a captcha for every second website I visit.

Yeah most people but it's a snowball effect once a few people you know start using Linux and they like it then you are a lot more likely to try it yourself. I'm an optimist and I believe Linux will start exponentially increasing in adoption (to a point) in the next few years.

Also I think most people do change there default browser but they change it to Chrome ):

Update: I got space engineers and beamng.drive working it was probably a problem with not having write permission on my hdd(see comment I put above)

I am pretty sure i am running counter strike natively at the moment. How do I change it between running natively and running with proton? I think it might perform better with proton.

Fair point didn't think of that. I do use the default keyboard app I guess. Is it possible samsung records keyboard information keystrokes etc?

Update: I got beamng.drive to work I haven't tried space engineers although my guess is it will work but without audio (acording to everyone on protondb) whuch is unplayable imo so i will probably use windows for that. The problem was that I didn't have write permissions on my secondary hard drive which is probably linked to my Windows install (I am currently dual booting with two ssd's) so I installed beamng onto my main ssd and everything just worked!

Not sure how to fix the write permission error I've tried launching dolphin with root privileges. At the moment the best solution I can think of is formatting my hdd on Windows and then that may fix it. Although it would be nice if there was a solution without formatting it.

So far I've tried space engineers, counter strike and beamng.drive although I haven't gotten any of them to launch yet except counter strike but I have had terrible frame rate and stuttering that made it unplayable.

No you were actually right the first time! I did mean counter strike. Thanks for the help though.