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Download whatever distro seems interesting, if tails is something you want to try then try it I actually had a similar introduction to Linux but I doubt youd stick with tails as its not a daily not to say tails doesn't have its place. I personal like arch distros and if your moving from windows you'd probably like KDE plasma. Using Linux won't instantly net you privacy, this is something that you'd need to pro actively aim to be private, like what is the URL for the pirate bay, 1337x, can I trust this torrent? Which browser do you use and search engine, what torrent client can be trusted.

I'd recommend using transmission, qbittorrent or anything Foss with half decent user base. VPN you've got proton free, mullvad costs but I'd say its worth it or you can tunnel through tor network. Distros you've got lots of options, recommend you look at distrowatch or youtubers like distrotube. Find a small pall of trust worthy torrent sites and names of trust worthy repackere, fitgirl, dodi, jc141 to name a few.

But most importantly. Make sure to seed 🙃

Any distro is fine for piracy, you could also set up tor tunnel for torrents Only if your client supports it if ISP is something your worried about or just use a free VPN service

If you'd not mentioned BG3 then more people would agree, but any game that is buggy should be refundable for sure and to say other wise is anti consumer

Part of the vocal few, most people seem to agree that googles relationship to Mozilla is negative, and it doesn't matter that you'd find the answer by searching for it, what does matter is that there was a perfectly adequate solution that is now gone for no rhyme or reason, and not one person here has said why removing the option is beneficial but what ever, this conversation has become petty and I don't care for the direction you've taken

I have and much prefer heroic which als o handles updates

Never kick an underdog even if the underdog is directly funded by google, I should imagine google had a large part to play in these changes. But anyway thanks for the link

I've also come off and confrontational with my stance, its hard not to be when a large portion of replys have been dancing around the stated issue of senseless removal of a key setting

If that suits your needs, then sure, but personally, I'd choose a tablet PC for its versatility, broader app selection, and to avoid the challenges posed by Google's APIs within what I see as a problematic ecosystem. I appreciate my degoogled phone, but it's still quite common to encounter apps that heavily rely on Google's services

But it was much easier lol and logical

Addons, I would avoid as they make it easier to fingerprints and also its the long way around, if all I want to do is add a URL like google.com or bing then why should I add an extension

Sorry I miss typed, would it make sense to of left the custom search engine option in settings whilst also adding the ad from search bar option?

And why the hell would I use an add-on for a web address? My point is that the search engine feature is gone from settings

I've reinstalled Firefox to test this and followed your direction. I can't see anymore search engines than previously stated

Okay so I remember when in setting I could just add search engines, why remove that feature? Why not have the add from search bar as well as in settings?

I don't mean this as an us against them statement, I wouldn't use services hosted in the uk either

Yep its a sorry state of affairs and ass backwards way to circumvent anti trust laws.

So its an agitator, will it directly communicate with googelz bing ddg? Or does it use an IP hiding techniques?

I've heard of searx never used it though

Its an american company, so privacy be damned

The obfuscation of default search engine is predatory is more of what I'm getting at

Also no, setting page is not for advanced users, about:config is

Its a choice not a limitation, I choose to not run galaxy so this is why I'm looking at alternative methods to install patches