the screenshot does not look like nautilus, maybe xfce?

This is a bug, not enshittification. How would they profit from that?

CSAM Spam. That’s what happened. Most people thankfully only noticed the moderator posts, but those understandably don’t want to have to filter that all day long.

Germany is one of the countries against the current chat surveillance proposal, so at least we have that going for us (which is nice)

Macs are not really what I think of when reading “middle of the road linux”

there is a base implementation basically all compositors are based on

I recently stopped switching to x11 for gaming. With most games, the performance is 5-10fps better on Wayland

They created WordPad because of antitrust issues and never changed it. Try opening a Word document created by a recent version, it’s pretty useless today.

Notepad rules though, it even got UTF8 support recently-ish! /s

I get why they do it though - any change to win10 needs testing and so on and might not be welcomed by the user base. You can always download a free (as in freedom) image editor, some are even on the Microsoft Store. Be glad they did not backport all the bad sides of win11…

I was talking about the history on device, of course I agree: never expect privacy on a device controlled by someone else.

I can confirm there are places where that is possible.

Also as long as they do not whitelist executables, you could use a portable version of a browser.

It does have it. But you have to invoke it with ADB.