Back then, you didn’t find them in search engines either. Your friends told you about them.

the quickest way to and from work during peak hour

Everyone is using Google for that, so on average, traffic on all alternative routes will level out quickly and it doesn’t matter which one you choose.

If they are trying to break encryption or identifying users, that means they inherently are doing something the law does not favor.

They’ve been trying to change that law multiple times for over a decade.

It’s just a regular distro where the owner (Google) doesn’t tell you the root password.

no.

There’s a lightshow at my town tonight involving an U-Boot from WW2 that’s on its way to a museum. They plan to transport it on the river and rotate it on its side so it fits under the medieval bridge.
So I’m going to look at that.

Gnome OS

Install your software from the repository of a well-run distribution that has a focus on free software.
If the software is unmaintained or changes its license, the distro’s maintainers will drop it and look for a replacement.
It’s literally their (unpaid) job.

Do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Savior Fedora Silverblue?
I spend literally no time at all dealing with my OS.

My second and third internal drive are mounted to /home/username/datagrave and /home/username/backup .
I see no reason why I shouldn’t do it this way.