*arse, welcome to Australia

I have it installed, but haven't played with it much. Booted into it yesterday to update it, it "fetched" approx 600 packages and then failed to update/upgrade due to something to do with signatures, I walked away (need to look into wtf happened). Can't even view their forum without registering.

I also booted into my installation of bluestar just to update it, approx 400 packages, restarted and it deleted the panel on my 2nd monitor (not the end of the world, but...)

My main distro is installed on one drive, I have space partitioned for another 4 distros on another drive, just to play around with over time to see if they make sense, and if they have issues, or something changes with their devs choices, or surfaces about their political leanings, ai etc. It's a never ending story, I still don't have a back up distro that I am completely happy with.

My main (manjaro) just works, it is very user friendly and logical, but they have no statement about ai...

apostrophe's' are 'evil' anyway'

"I asked AI" 🙄

Redcore (gentoo based), installs via calamares
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=redcore

Some links on the subject:

https://noai.starlightnet.work/list.html

https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index

https://www.newinlinux.com/ai-free-linux-distros-open-source-operating-systems/

https://noailist.org/

https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware/

https://slopscan.ava.pet/

https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/

Relocate the swooped humans.

ubuntu is a misnomer

*asus and lg, nvidia, amd, intel, microsoft, amazon...

proton is purple google (poogle)

clown country

Thousands of horses would not end up at slaughter every year if they were not bred to be exploited.

We need to do much better in every state.

Swapping google apps over to fdroid etc apps before changing os is definitely the right way to go.

The installation isn't that difficult, although the instructions do need to be read carefully. You can stuff it up without killing your phone.

My motorola g84 is running it, as ismy sony xperia xz2

Probably worth watching some installation videos first.

A balance of quantity and quality I guess, browser based, and no to low ai

I've looked a few times over the years and never found anything that ticks the boxes.

My watch history is turned off.

The real dislike button is using a channel blocker, or pipepipe etc

I reinstalled lineage recently via https://lineage.microg.org/ but have yet to use anything not on fdroid so far. I had to drop my banking apps, and a couple of webmail default apps... not the end of the world. Time will tell if it will remain feasible to keep it that way, future interactions with the government, or businesses might make it annoying (mainly due to ID cr*p), but so far it hasn't been a problem.

I originally installed lineage via https://wiki.lineageos.org/ then added GApps at the last step, but the google sh*t still being on my phone was not what I wanted.

I recommend uBlacklist to correct this.

odysee seems very youtube like in all the wrong ways

I will check out rumble, it isn't one I have heard of, thank you.