Some servers don't do this, Hexbear for example auto rehosts images to hexbear or removes external images.
Communication is the first step in providing assistance to people
It absolutely does matter, sharing browser fingerprint and ip to a large corporation is dangerous.
Signal unfortunately has a big barrier to entry (cell phone), many people that cannot afford that or not allowed it by family will be left out. Also verification via phone number means the government knows you're using it for sure and they can try the big wrench method on you. If you do need to use it just download Molly.
Yeah, I fully recommend it for 1 on 1 secure comms. Discord is much better replaced by Matrix, though
Certain sites are far more secure, they scramble IP and show their code.
My notes said I tried nobara but they werent very detailed, I assume it wasnt great? Manjaro is one of the ones I didnt test, along with Garuda. I tried Fedora base and Arch base and they didnt work out of the box with most games.
GUI absolutely does matter for helping adoption of linux, I'm not interested in hearing arguments to the contrary either. Everything should be as GUI'd as possible if we want linux to grow
Does it have a driver gui?
Yeah, thats useful for laymen / people that dont want to tinker a whole lot
Nah, I'm on latest hardware (4080) and did a bunch of tests recently. Mint was the best along with PopOS. A lot of distros like CachyOs or Bazzite have a lot of great enhancements but they break so often without easy rollbacks that a layman shouldnt use them. Mint has a driver manager and can install KDE if you want with no breakage. Bazzite and CachyOS couldnt even run many major titles due to driver breakage and not having an easy way for a layman to rollback. (I could do it, though a layman would hate it). Whereas PopOS and Mint both ran major titles without any configuration.
I don't know of any 'bleeding edge' distros with driver managers, I might ask about that though.
Good point, I originally made this as an image because someone requested that. Here's the text