Can you buy a Dell laptop with Linux at a retail store?

Not in retail stores though AFAIK

The Duck applications are all pretty nice.

They make more apps than just Cyberduck?

I’m pretty sure PeaZip supports these as well

PeaZip is nice. I don’t use 7zip because it looks and feels ancient. Both are open source and better than WinRAR though.

Virtual Machine Manager is a great GUI frontend for KVM/libvirt and QEMU, and basically the gold standard for VM management on Linux

I have a local instance of Vaultwarden that I use to generate and store the credentials for my local services, and I use normal cloud-hosted Bitwarden for all my other passwords.

Misinformation is the stuff you spread in c/privacy about GrapheneOS and Android in general

It’s paid and partly proprietary though. Not an issue for me, but might be an issue for some other people.

I like TrueNAS Scale. If you don’t mind paying for a server OS and parts of it being proprietary, check out Unraid.

Debian if you are new to Linux servers and self-hosting. Alpine if you get more advanced and just want something very light-weight and minimal.

Yes: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/246

You can run Linux on the Switch: https://switchroot.org/

So it knows about all metadata

Metadata is encrypted on the client-side using Signal’s sealed sender implementation. The client also removes as much metadata as possible. All of this is open-source and happens in the client application.

plus registration with phone number

Signal doesn’t store phone numbers. It derives a user id from your phone number along with other parameters. It’s in the open-source server code, you can check it out yourself.

you need to use the client built by Signal

No you don’t. I myself use a fork of Signal called Molly.

with dependencies from Google Services and the like

Not true again. You don’t need to use the official binary that includes Google libraries. These aren’t required for the app to function. You can use Signal-FOSS or Molly-FOSS, and it works just fine.

and you can’t use one built from the source they provide

If this was true, forks like Signal-FOSS or Molly wouldn’t exist.

Which at that point means they can introduce whatever they want in whichever version.

Stupid conclusion, because all of your previous points are false

Stop spreading false information, focus on the facts.

Yes, but metadata is still important.

We Kill People Based on Metadata

– Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA

Signal having the server code closed source for more than a year so the Signal devs could get a headstart and insider knowledge

That argument makes absolutely no sense. This server-side code does almost nothing. The only task it really has is passing around encrypted packets between clients. All of the encryption is client-side, of course including metadata encryption. That’s how end-to-end encryption works. The server code really doesn’t matter. The Signal protocol, which is used for client-side, local, on-device end-to-end encryption has always been fully open, and it can be used by any app/platform.

How one can trust Signal after them showcasing what they truly stand for is mind blowing

It’s very simple. The client is open source, and the encryption happens locally within the client application. You don’t need to trust anything or anyone except for the code and mathematics, which are fully open, so you can verify them yourself.

It’s mind-boggling how people attempt to spread so much misinformation while having absolutely no understanding of the topic their talking about.

Unencrypted means that it’s not just exposed to participants of the conversation, but also the server, as well as anyone who tries to snoop in on the conversation.

Thankfully there are Signal proxies, VPNs and Tor (which can be used on mobile devices through Orbot.

Matrix lacks metadata encryption

And Signal can be used over Tor through Orbot