Honestly, I picked it because I was lazy. It’s such a low maintainance machine. As for the codec, the flatpak version of VLC does it.

I got openSUSE Leap. It’s stable and reliable. My complaint is that I needed to go thru all the hoops to get all the media codecs I need to play what I want.

You’ll less likely to stumble around if you just pick something that works instead of experimenting around.

May I suggest Linux Mint?

EFF should GTFOutta US and set up shop in a safer region.

If it makes you feel better (or worse), thr NSA has contributed a great deal of work to the Linux kernel. In fact, they created SELinux, which you may be using at this very moment.

Financially Independent, Retire Early? Never heard of that opsec.

TLDR: SerpentOS rebranded

I like him, but what does he have to do with any of this?

Also RHEL-based distros (tested on AlmaLinux). I think it’s alright.

Gravity~ is working~ against me~