I like minimalist setup, I avoid RGB.

Steam even though supports linux gaming, it doesn’t have DRM-free games

All games bought outside of GOG

Well no. I’ve changed my mind a lot of times about what I want to do not because of industry but simply because my taste changed. I believe it’s important to do what you love, personally I don’t care if I don’t make lots of money.

So glad that one of the largest youtubers is promoting Linux, FOSS and privacy :D

I’m kinda sick of EVERYTHING having it’s own “AI”, I just hope it’s only a passing phase like it was with crypto

Not sure if this counts as an alternative but getting off tiktok, all that mindless scrolling is sucking your life away.

You can always ask online community here or on other platforms since they can provide you with exactly what you want.

That would be no. Even if you use ADB to remove bunch of packages that make connections you still can’t be sure if you will have privacy since stock ROM is proprietary. DNS can block some connections but Android and apps can use their own DNS if they want so it also depends.

If question was about security then yes, sticking with stock ROM is usually more secure although many argue that GrapheneOS holds highest security standard. DNS can also improve security since it can block malicious domains, that depends which DNS provider you’re using.

Around 2014 I had hacker phase so I’ve installed BackTrack(Kali Linux), ofcourse I didn’t knew a thing about Linux but hey it was a start :D

Since then I had dual boot with Windows until 2020 when Ubuntu 20.04 dropped and Windows never touched my computers again.