Sounds about right for Delaware. There’s literally more corporations registered there than people.

Flatpak allows downloading from 3rd party repositories and is fully open source. It seems like it might have some security issues regarding the sandboxing though according to this. Regardless, I trust it more than anything with proprietary code.

A few problems with them:

1. Snaps are distributed exclusively by the Snap Store, which Canonical has full control over.
2. The repository backend is proprietary.
3. They tend to cause performance issues.

I used to use Ubuntu, but over time I began to accumulate a series of grievances. The final straw for me came when they made Firefox a Snap. Then I did a bit of distro hopping, trying out Manjaro, Fedora, and OpenSUSE, but none of those really satisfied me and they had their issues too. Then I tried Mint and I knew I had found my new home. Mint to me feels like the idealized version of Ubuntu: stable but not out of date, comes with good software, and easy to use. All of this without the corporate nonsense of Ubuntu.

From Software games have filters for player names and it often leads to stuff like this. Thus if you put “knight” in your character’s name, a common thing that people do given that they’re medieval fantasy games, it appears as “k***ht.” Likewise “dead” becomes “d***” and “Thomas” becomes “T**mas.” Even more embarrassingly, the filter is case sensitive and all the filtered words are lowercase, so you could name your character a slur and it would be fine as long as you capitalize the first letter.