BuyFromEU

Some really weird suggestions.

Free Software does not have a country of origin.

• NixOS, uBlue, AerynOS poorly all rely on Github (Microsoft), but are far better distros than Ubuntu or Mint
• Librewolf is better than Waterfox and way more common
• Ecosia uses Bing, Kagi uses Yandex and is shady. Metager, SearX, Swisscows and more are actually good
• Android, iOS -> GrapheneOS. No iodeOS, they are insecure and not comparable. Same for Fairphone and /e/OS. GrapheneOS is free software but also mainly in the US

This guide is weird. It suggests to replace US products by other US products

I think federated vs cetralised should be a classification for social media platforms

The incomplete guide...
Cryptpad, ONLYOFFICE, Fennec, Mullvad Browser, Librewolf, Thunderbird, FairEmail, SimpleX, Lemmy, Peertube

Bluesky? Wtf

I cannot recommend Internxt their software and servers are buggy.

The desktop app (on Linux at least) would give lots of errors and refuse to upload files. In addition some uploaded files were corrupted when trying to download them.

I like their idea and philosophy but at the moment their excecution is quite poor making the product unrealiable.

Profit Share missing for Ecosia.

I prefer Only Office (Desktop Version) to Libre Office, because

• it does not look like over 20 year old Office 2003
• it uses docx and xlsx as native format which makes it easier for noobs

I heared Only Office has some Russian connections. Otherwise it still is Open Source.

SoundCloud always missing wtf???

Is there a European Netflix or Youtube?

the legend is incomplete. what's red? what's the globe icon? how come some products marked not majority EU owned have the EU flag?

I think the hardest part are mobile OS 😔
Beside : eOS, sailfish and postmarket we have a long way...

I made my own list of non-American browsers recently when trying to switch from Brave. It gets a bit murky with open-source projects that have global contributors (and sometimes anonymous creators) but here it is:

Cromite, Ungoogled Chromium, Vivaldi

Floorp, Waterfox, Librewolf, Zen

@FallenWalnut

You do a great job! 👏 Thank you!

Isn't Waterfox quite slow on the updates?

I've been using LibreWolf, but I've been meaning to try out Zen

@FallenWalnut

• Operating system
OpenSuse

👉Here is explained: https://privsec.dev/posts/linux/choosing-your-desktop-linux-distribution

• Messenger
Simplex

Great guide, thanks! Will start converting (where not already through with it).

Maybe someone can help with this topic: Is there any EU-based live map service (including traffic jams and road work and the likes)? I already use OSM but that doesn't (can't by design as far as I know) include live information.

@FallenWalnut
Bookmarked and boosted!

I do not want to start a discussion about Linux since I'm no expert and a million of Linux experts will know better.

But don't all the suggested distros here (as well any user friendly ones in general) rely on the kernel written by Torvald's team. With that team being based in the US and at least Linus himself having acted as a three letter agency asset before, can they really be called privacy friendly or even secure? (I'm talking about the CIA or NSA having had a backdoor into Linux in the past and Linus also having banned Russian contributions last year while not banning American contributions, much less moving the operation outside of the US)