GNOME is bad. Abandon GNOME. If you like the UI of Windows, try KDE Plasma 6.
It's much more feature rich than GNOME and very customizable too. And touchpad speed can be adjusted in the System Settings application.
I agree. But using Windows XP these days is a huge security risk. W10 not getting security updates at least for the next 2 years is probably something that can be overlooked, but it will at some point be vulnerable to automatic attacks like XP. I'm sure there are some websites on the web that try to automatically exploit some major exploits that have been lrft unfixed in Windows XP. I'd advise them to switch to Linux Mint or something instead of using that old vulnerable system.
The funny thing is that most of those pedophiles who share CP or any of that child sexual shit on the internet don't use your casual normie's go-to messaging apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. If they find out that the EU can now request decryption keys to decrypt their stuff, then they'll switch to something which can't be circumvented by law and probably start encrypting the messages manually instead. The smarter ones probably already started out like that without trusting any provider in the first place.
The only ones that'll get caught in this chat control bullshit are the retarded ones.
Didn't think a region that was all pro-privacy with their GDPR and their DMA and stuff would actually agree to this.
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