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I’ve had this exact response from “normie” people I’ve known over the years multiple times.

My guess is that it stems from the old saying “you get what you pay for”, and as such a free service without a megacorp behind it MUST be dodgy and untrustworthy.

What annoys me the most is that when you bring up the topic of privacy it’s always the exact same response, “yeah well I have nothing to hide so it’s fine”

Here’s an article on The Register. I haven’t read through all of this just yet, but this might give you a pretty decent picture:

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/27/omarchy-distro-gains-serious-backing/5293026

https://mullvad.net/en/help/connecting-to-mullvad-vpn-from-restrictive-locations

This is what I can find on their website. Last updated April 22, 2026.

Seems like Russia is mostly blocked and China is fully blocked.

This guide lists different settings and methods to connect to Mullvad VPN from networks and countries where connecting to a VPN is difficult. This includes countries such as China, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan.

But Russia, China, and Iran are listed here. So maybe works? I’m confused

Nice recommendation with Droid-ify! I completely forgot about this, installing on my phone now too

Have a look on F-Droid, there’s a whole heap of open source games on there

A password manager?

HDR is in, has been in KDE and Gnome for a while now.

Fair enough on TrackPad scroll speed.

Other than that though, what other features do you believe Gnome is missing?

And here’s the Bugzilla issue link, also found in above link:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512106