I stopped watching him myself for a few reasons.

Firstly because I watched that 3.5 hour documentary on the Nvidia AI GPU black market and thought “this could’ve been an email”. I gained next to nothing from the time I spent on it and I did not enjoy it. The same applied to the rest of his videos too.

Secondly because I’ve started to be pro-professionalism, and Gamers Nexus lacks professionalism such as in his dealings with LTT.

iVPN, PrivadoVPN, Windscribe and ProtonVPN are generally considered leaders in the space IIRC.

Based on what I’ve heard, Fedora and OpenSUSE are the two leaders when it comes to desktop security on Linux.

Why OpenSUSE specifically?

Firstly, my general rule is “upstream or Mint (because screw snaps)”. CachyOS was a decision I made prior to this rule but otherwise I have 6 options (Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, and OpenSUSE).

• A rolling release is out of the question, so Arch’s out.
• Ubuntu’s always out.
• Based on what I’ve heard, Fedora and OpenSUSE are the two leaders when it comes to desktop security on Linux. I value security so Mint and Debian are out.
• Fedora tends to adopt new technologies fast, which isn’t really what I want.

So by process of elimination, OpenSUSE it is.

Another part of it is nostalgia. I used it briefly when I was first switching to Linux full-time. I ran into various issues and moved off it. Private internet access wouldn’t install, I didn’t even know what proprietary media codecs were at the time, and tumbleweed had a few bugs that caused me trouble. Despite all that, I’m nostalgic for it partly because of the themes I ended up installing.

Two reasons. Firstly because it’s illegal to have the same distro on two different machines, and secondly because I’ve been meaning to switch back to OpenSUSE for a while (but I ain’t gonna be gaming on OpenSUSE).

IIRC the CachyOS optimizations were basically a rounding error. I’m thinking of just switching my gaming PC to Fedora (and switching my Fedora Laptop to OpenSUSE maybe).

I don’t get it. Why is everyone donating to Omarchy. What are they hoping to get from that?

Mullvad had some anti-censorship option last I checked. Don’t remember what exactly it does, but it had some sort of option.

Mullvad VPN let’s you buy 10 years in advance IIRC. So if the government bans VPN’s (but Sweden doesn’t) you might still be able to use them for a decade.

It’s frustrating that in 2026, Debian doesn’t have a firewall installed by default.

Chromebooks are what everyone’s using in school. Windows is in a state, and if businesses are going to replace it they sure as hell aren’t going to use Linux (too informal) or MacOS (too locked down).

For individual users, something like 90% of internet browsing is on mobile devices so Android and iOS have already won over Windows bigtime.

I don’t really care about timed exclusivity, especially when it’s just downloading a different launcher. Permanent exclusivity, or worse eventual unavailability I do care about though.

I’m really glad for all Valve has done for Linux, but Microsoft is not the monopoly it once was. Chromebooks are the new frontier and Epic is the one taking on the Play Store monopoly.

Add in GOG to the mix with their anti-DRM advocacy and I’m left with a tough choice for who I would rather my 30% store tax to go to.

Communism isn’t magic. Humans are still in charge.

In my case I’m just accepting the slim pickings. Even with the pickings being so slim, I could still theoretically never run out of things to read.

That said the search functionality is abysmal and that’s what’s really giving me pause.

It’s really frustrating that this whole situation is caused by people not knowing how to enable parental controls.

I’ll never switch to Chromium no matter what happens, not on an ideological basis, but because Firefox is the only browser that allows me to create duplicate bookmarks without manually copying and pasting it.

The XZ Utils thing is a prime example of the risks Linux faces.

Mobile operating systems in general are far more secure than Desktop operating systems. ChromeOS seems to be the most secure desktop option, but given the privacy implications of a Google operating system and the lock-down of Google Play I wouldn’t touch it with a 10-foot pole.

Tried it. Firstly it wouldn’t install. Secondly, the developer lead developer is a very private person and I don’t trust a Linux distro made by someone who is so secretive.

Linux in general is not secure for desktop users. There’s basically never sandboxing, and when there is it’s usually weak, antivirus is rarely used, and developers aren’t vetted as stringently as with paid software. Apparently Fedora and OpenSUSE take these issues more seriously, and SE Linux does somewhat restrict what malicious things a piece of software can do.

It’s a pretty widely held view that Fedora and OpenSUSE are more secure than Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch for desktop users but I’m not really an expert so I’m mostly retroactively justifying what I’ve heard second-hand.