Well and a faster boot time but it's definitely a learning curve and not really worth it unless you want to try a Distro that ships something else by default (E.g. Alpine).
Cheap food is usually less healthy but if you talk about people staving a little from time to time it seems realistic that many might get slimmer, not the healthy way to do it but I guess some could end up healthier
You can implement Telementry in a privacy preserving way if you put in some effort but a lot of technical details are anything but unique and absolutely a risk to your privacy, not to talk about what big tech sometimes calls Telemetry. You can disable the majority of tracking in Windows but that takes literal hours and a lot of knowledge and the highest settings (if you aren't on the enterprise version) still tell you that some data is send to Microsoft servers without specifiying what that is. Portmaster is a cool app but all you can see there are servers your computer connects to and every Windows computer unless it's cribbled down to the point where updates are disabled connects to Microsoft servers which is okay but also ensures that you can't know from that data...
Gnome is probably usable but definitely not ideal on old low end hardware, Pop is a great Distro and I love Gnome but I wouldn't recommend it in this case, maybe that's why.
Cinnamon is a little heavier on the hardware but especially with Linux Mint it's a great choice to get into Linux and a Debian base is a great choice, you won't utelize any new features on that hardware and it's really stable! About KDE, that's actually very light weight too so you shouldn't have any issues in that regard if you decide to use it especially in comparison to Cinnamon, I would just recommend Mint Cinnamon more for a new user! :)
Judiging from the culture war the alt-right started to adopt in europe and other global leader changes (E.g. India) in the past few years I highly disagree, there is more accaptance in the general population but over all there are more and more countries LGBTQ people aren't welcome in or have to flee from and the pure hate appears even here in Austria and in our neighbor countries. Trump of all people put it very well, five years ago his audiance didn't even know what trans is and now they get more excited about it than about tax cuts. I do agree that the world generally moves towards neo liberal ideas rouggly since the early 2000s and that workers right are at risk too, that's just not a very new development, stuff like that simply gains visibility during a crisis.
That's not what I try to say, America is simply first rn and similar groups all over the western world adopt it because of that, it's not a secret that the western world started to move to the right again in recent times and that leads to a lot of shit if you ask me which definitely isn't limited to America but currently they are simply the first to do certain really bad tgings!
America is leading the chart of the western world in terms of stupidity rn if you ask me and it's definitely easy to be one of the enlighned over there (just don't try to oppress others) but compared to other parts of the population I definitely prefer them!
The main issue here is how aggressive Fuckbook is when it comes to the messager, since they started to hide it on mobile devices they fucked with every attempt to revive that functionality with a none Fuckbook apps till the creator gave up. They are bad enough with normal clients (most of those died for a reason) but somehow even worse when it comes to the messager!
Effective is doubtful if you ask me, everything he did was based on huge loans and a preparation for war that he solled differently (E.g. massive streets all over the country)
Are Beehaw and Hexbear counted too? I feel like they probably would appear before feddit.de but maybe I am wrong.