What are some (not illegal) ideas to make corporations feel the pain when they allow our data to be stolen?
Mint was my beginner distro and is what I recommend. In my experience I was able to find a solution for most of my beginner problems by searching for a solution for mint.
On the other hand you wouldn't put your bare feet on a likely dirty seat in a train. You can't work with normal standards here.
I don't see the issue, since you rarely have to run a program by going to the location of the binary (AppImage and others excluded).
How do you search for blogs/forums/media directly from experts rather then the usual SEO slop google/big tech shows you?