Newpipe, an YouTube client, which is:

• ad free

• lightweight

• useful, it allows downloading videos, music, and playing them when screen is locked

• usable without account

• multi-platform, it can also serve as client for the PeerTube, Bandcamp, SoundCloud

It’s probably private, but sadly not open source.

Yes, but most users will exercise their freedom to ignore such distros.

Ah, these pesky Arch users. I use Fedora BTW.

Tor Browser will give you most privacy and security, but it can be considered overkill for everyday use. Librewolf takes second place.

Enough.

You can customize starting abilities to avoid unwanted ones.

I’m a former Windows user, so I install activate-linux for similar experience.

I prefer aero to modern styles, and this looks great! Would be great to have out of the box Aero DE.

Sorry, downvoted anyway.

Rad.

Because Seznam is smaller and European, I think it’s still better than Google. It’s good to break Google’s spying monopoly.

Thankfully there are also better, non spying apps.

Isn’t accessing TOR network from any other browser than Tor Browser a serious anonymity risk?

If you want obscure, I can recommend Lagrange. It can browse only gemini pages though, so you can’t visit your favourite html websites.

Jerboa doesn’t have all the features, including searching for keywords. You can choose other app richer in features from here, or use web UI.

You can search lemmy for keyword email, and 99.99% of recommendations will be better than Gmail.

Sadly, I have no one to use with it, so I don’t know about battery usage. I just like, that it doesn’t require any external identifiers, unlike Signal.

Signal for security standard and ease of use, which is essential, if You want to use it with non techy people.

Simplex for anonymity, You can download it, share chat and start talking without registration.

Linux was a mistake. Users were never meant to have full control of their operating system.

You can combine search engine of choice with anonymity provided by TOR browser.