it is open source https://github.com/stoatchat/

where is tails?

ChromeOS and Android both prove that you CAN provide an experience sans terminal.

I think anything with flatpaks or snap store will be in a pretty good spot

Gnome is very good at this

have I been pwned has the details for this.

I got the email of doom from them. if you aren’t showing up on there then you’re probably good

please remove the AI sentence before the questions in your post

it is exactly what I think it is. you can use your own certs

nope, Pixel supports it for example

lol mine is like 76GB. have been running the same install for going on 9 years now

distro barely matters beyond how you get the packages.

there’s a reason arch is popular, it can be whatever you want it to be.

tbh, it sounds like you don’t have a great understanding of Linux (not an attack!) so I would definitely stay away from Kali, and other distros like that.

stick with Arch if you’re confident you can maintain it, or if you want to have a system which you don’t have to poke at Fedora is a great option

EULAs are not legally enforceable anyways

yeah, although Linus admitted he is gay

redhat provides enterprise support for Linux.

my very large tech company heavily uses Linux (and I personally have both a Linux laptop AND desktop).

it’s not the easy path, but when it happens it is so nice

a duress password typically wipes the device when entered.

so the data would be destroyed

give them the duress password gg

“privacy friendly” and “free cloud storage” are oxymorons. If you aren’t paying for a product, you ARE the product

question the requirements baby

staying on an end of life unsupported programming language does not spark joy.

open source projects are (often) maintained by unpaid volunteers. unpaid volunteers doing something for the passion of it often don’t want to build with one hand tied behind their back

python 2 to 3 is actually an enormous change

it’s quite modular. I would argue that each individual component does follow that ethos