noorbeast

Why have you not done a basic search to understand the objectives of the various distros and posiilities, before posing these questions?

Go you, personal and professional integrity matters and are so often sacrificed on the alter of expediency or personal need/greed!

I use LibreWolf on Linux as my primary browser, but have recently installed Helium as a backup browser for rare times where chrome is required for a specific site, or for testing.

Helium seems pretty transparent, even giving the option in setup not to use their enhancement services, or self-hosting those same enhancement services, or turn them off if you want to.

Helium currently supports MV2 extensions and has Ublock installed by default, though it is hard to say how long they may maintain MV2 support, given Google ditched it.

While not my daily driver Helium does seem to get rid of Google monitoring, has solid base settings and security defaults, includes Ublock by default which I think is absolutely necessary, and has some nice use and customization features.

Just installed Owncast, so townsfolk can ride my G-scale Polar Express via an onboard livestream, as part of a revamped lighting and projection mapping festive season show.

While I was at it I also added Kokoro for TTS.

Thought I would spice up Jellyfin for the festive season, so am trying out the Jellyfin Enhanced and Home Sections plugins.

For me it is not a cycle, just a pragmatic implementation of tech catching up to my very specific needs.

Linux has been my primary OS for decades, but because I have edge case tech interests I have maintained a dual boot configuration.

Some of those edge cases have been possible, but also marginal in Linux, at times breaking some key aspects of my personal needs, so in the Unity game engine some required plugins (yes I am seriously looking at GoDot but have decades of investment in Unity), and in video tasks for 3D projection mapping projects, needing some custom scripts to work around codec issues.

The greatest challenges have been in relation to combining Sim games, motion simulation and VR integration.

I am again currently taking another run of that complex integration at the moment, tweaking CashyOS to meet my video editing and 3D projection mapping needs, while also trying to wrangle various proprietary Windows programs to run sim games, use 3rd party programs like CrewChief, and most importantly include telemetry driven haptics and motion simulation.

My Linux nirvana is complicated by some very specific but personally very important edge case needs. I am hoping that current Wine and Proton development has progressed to the point that I can finally totally ditch Window$ forever...fingers crossed!

Or perhaps questioning the obvious flaws of the UN.

Sad opensource and consumers are shafted!

Its language use not just accent, so a Victorian would say a bag, a Queenslander would say a port.

Plus Mullvad VPN.

If you like the budget haptic rig for my father then check out my compact 3DOF motion rig, built over a decade ago specifically for VR and still going strong: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/dx-compact-simulator.5866/

Plus even more extravagant DIY rigs, of all types: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/forums/diy-motion-simulator-projects.22/

Honestly you can get so much more bang for your buck, this is the VR haptic rig I built 6 years ago for my father with an Arduino and control board, with 10 SimHub controlled rumble motors (8 built in and 2 for peddles), and 2 X 50w transducers: https://www.xsimulator.net/community/threads/teddles-vr-haptic-rig.13821/#post-231405

Tassie is compact, unique, varied, stunning and a whole lot more, certainly worth a visit, it will be getting cool in a few weeks time but things like Dark MoFo, kicking off early June, keep things interesting, including the unexpected like the nude solstice swim (NSFW): https://darkmofo.net.au/program/nude-swim