It's time to stop being comfortable with surveillance ...
Customizable software and hardware? Sounds good to me.
I tried Peppermint Linux: How this bare-bones distro lets you build your ideal OS ...
TL;DR: Linus Torvalds chose an Intel Arc GPU for his perfect Linux PC, swerving Nvidia (unsurprisingly) and AMD (much more surprisingly). The Arc B580 was used in the build, but that wasn't Torvalds's ...