Any Linux distribution besides Ubuntu (who was caught capturing and sending desktop search bar activity to crapathon (Amazon)) is good, but I recomend people try to steer clear of ones that use soystemd (SystemD) because it is going the massivesuckage (Microsoft) route of trying to get its fingers into everything for no good reason.
In general, I would avoid anything that steers their users into using a smartphone app. There is a lot of data collection going on there, and ethical companies have no excuse to not support the universal web browser. Signal is lower on my list for that reason, although it does seem to have better acceptance by non-tech people.
(May 17, 2021) Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. Don't Use Telegram. | Luke Smith
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBTsUVrCDAQ
A small minority has been telling the retards to stop using Telegram for quite awhile now.
The majority take convenience over privacy & security.
Use instead:
Element
Signal
Session
Jami
Jitsi
Briar
And several others here
https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-messaging/
Ain't that the truth. We are probably doomed to be the minority forever.
People whine at me when I explain GPG is the best bet for authentication too.
I haven't gone tat deep into opsec but this is good info to know!
A Practical Guide to GPG Part 1: Generate Your Public/Private Key Pair
https://www.linuxbabe.com/security/a-practical-guide-to-gpg-part-1-generate-your-keypair
If looking for good OS
https://tails.boum.org/
Have fun.
Any Linux distribution besides Ubuntu (who was caught capturing and sending desktop search bar activity to crapathon (Amazon)) is good, but I recomend people try to steer clear of ones that use soystemd (SystemD) because it is going the massivesuckage (Microsoft) route of trying to get its fingers into everything for no good reason.
The first Q&A on Artix' page gives part of the situation on soystemd: https://artixlinux.org/faq.php
Oh and Snapd. Stay FAR away from that because it is proprietary and controlled by Canonical (Ubuntu).
In general, I would avoid anything that steers their users into using a smartphone app. There is a lot of data collection going on there, and ethical companies have no excuse to not support the universal web browser. Signal is lower on my list for that reason, although it does seem to have better acceptance by non-tech people.
I use signal alongside telegram. To say that signal is safer is also suspect.
The code is open source, its been audited several times, your messages are end-to-end encrypted. It is safer than Telegram.