https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxZf1-bLIHY

This is a pretty good start to make Mint (Cinnamon) look better.

Its basically mall built-in tools.

I ended up just putting icons in the middle (to prepare for works Win11 enshitification).

I also put a user button near the time to allow shutdown and removed the god awful power icons from the start menu (or whatever the app launcher is called).

Theres also an extend thin for a bigger start menu more like a grid but thats personal preference.

I think mint should do some of these things so its not so off putting. It held me back forming for so long but IRS much better.

I prefer mint over fedora. Fedora dosnt seem to have as many apps in the store. Yes you can use a terminal but thats not helping linux become mainstream, mint is.

+1 mint also prompts new users to setup timeshift backups.

There was some drama recently with Bitwarden. They sorted it out now but it nearly became enshitified.

Fist party keyboards have the exact same permissions. The code is hidden though and noone can audit it.

There’s a few. I use this tp regex the feeds before delivery. https://siftrss.com/

There is an site to turn YT feeds into RSS (?) And then play the audio through Antenna Pod. So YouTube to podcast.

I’ve got it working for some things I follow where I dont need the visuals.