I’m on Fedora and I always use the flatpak version of steam, which is listed as 4th. If you redistributed the flatpaks to the actual distro, I wouldn’t be surprised if Fedora was in the top 10. Probably above CachyOS. Fedora encompasses all the immutable child distros like Silverblue, Kiniote, and Bazzite.

I spent a year on proton and thought the service was pretty good but decided to leave shortly after the tweet drama. Partially for the tweets but partially because I was switching to my own domain and I was asking my friends and family to change my address anyways. Tried a few other services. Here’s my 2 cents.

Mailbox.org is good but slow and dated. Tuta is good but seems like it’s declining. Posteo is good but dated

I also looked deeper and thought about email encryption. If you email an address that isn’t encrypting like hotmail, gmail, etc… Which I was most of the time, the value goes down. Also if you want to use standard protocols with a 3rd party app (calendar, contacts, Thunderbird, etc…) The app needs to support the encryption option or you go with no encryption. Proton only works within their apps or their mail bridge which didn’t do calendar. Using something like Signal for secure coms is a better option anyways.

I ended up going with a compromise. Fastmail. Worked with my custom domain, was fast, uses standard protocols (carddav, caldav, etc…), and end-to-end encryption is supported if I want to go that route later.

Its not perfect and costs more than others but it checked off my priorities.

My biggest recommendation is to get 1 or 2 customs domains. 1 for family and friends, and 1 for using with Addy, simplelogin, or Firefox relay. This allows you to move email providers in the future without having to change your email address(es). The relay service allows you to hand out addresses like candy to greedy irresponsible websites, and feel safe knowing you can just disable a particular address if that website sells your data or gets hacked.

Edit: Firefox relay doesn’t support custom domains

If you believe Ranked is the best that’s fine, but suggesting we can push for alternative voting systems after is just not realistic. The temporary solution almost always becomes the permanent one.

I use Yazi and its amazing. Here’s their docs on how to set it up as a file picker in helix.

https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/tips/#helix-with-zellij

COSMIC most of the time and then gnome as a fallback when I run into any temporary issues I can’t work around.

I do this with a custom bluebuild image I made that uses ublue (fedora 41) as a base and then added cosmic on top along with some other layers that I need/want.

You could always give out a relay to your family and friends as well. Both Firefox relay and SimpleLogin have custom domains so you can give you mom an email address like [email protected]

Here’s how I solved email spam.

1. Create a new email on a privacy focused platform (I chose proton)
2. Sign up for an email relay service (Firefox relay, SimpleLogin, etc…)
3. Only give out your actual email to friends and family and tell them not to share it with others or services without your permission.
4. Change your email on ALL your services to a newly generated relay addresses. Only use relay addresses for any online service moving forward.
5. Monitor the old email for a while to find any important services you might have missed.
6. When you get spam from a relay address, you can decide to use the normal unsubscribe option, or the nuclear disable relay option. That’s it.

Bonus 01: since your changing all your services manually, you can decide to delete accounts you don’t need anymore.

Bonus 02: each relay is unique to the service so you can tell when a service either got hacked or sold your info.

Side Note: there are setups similar to this for credit cards. I use Wise.com for online transactions with 3 different “virtual” cards that I can destroy if they get exposed.