Fonzie!

I can speak for Nord’s client sending requests to Google for some reason, maybe not great for privacy thus not great for piracy either.

I can speak well of Mullvad, but advise against sending hundreds of bucks in one go as paper mail is not exactly well secured. There’s another VPN that happily accepts cash as payment and doesn’t need your info but I can’t find it atm…

Dumb answer: Just use a VPN, my guy.

Man, that’s amazing!

Checking their profile, they do seem to be a furry, yeah!

Xubuntu is Ubuntu with the XFCE desktop, after all ;-)

An adware whatever should also be avoided.

This is not a good place to recommend commercial services.

my country they literally helped elect one

Huh? Source? What country?

John Oliver’s show is doing amazing things, including the Drumpfinator addon.

What is that URL, though? I’m guessing I’m know it if I (happily) watch the episode?

Adding that this would work even if OP uses full disk encryption, as it’s encrypted with a passphrase; just double-click the drive in the file manager and enter the encryption passphrase when prompted (NOT a sudo password!)

Ouch fair 😅

Even though this is an old one, going by the ID.

You can just turn nsfw off in your profile, no?

Okay but programing or Unix jokes are whole different cake than openly admitting piracy unless you’re Meta.

My fellow connoisseur.

It’s more like, the distro is the actual “under the hood” OS and the DE is the looks and user interaction.

Source: xkcd.com/488

Hold up is this real?

EDIT Holy fucking shit it’s real: https://xkcd.com/488/

I would say XFCE and Cinnamon; no two XFCE’s look alike and Cinnamon can easily be molded into something very different as well.

I see a lot of people recommending KDE and Gnome; I’ve found those surprisingly rigid, although there are more guides on how to “rice” KDE into the most non-KDE things so there’s that.

Have you checked software links from the megathread from the sidebar?

I know there’s a lot of links, but that makes it all the more sure at least some of them will have what you’re looking for.