Another purpose will be to discover “suspicious financial transactions or anomalous behavior that could indicate illegal activities.
That’s rich coming from Milei, who is currently being investigated for a blatant crypto scam as well as an old-school corporate bribery scandal.
I did the same earlier this year for exactly this reason. Glad to know I’m in such good company.
Why would “Linux” want to get more users, whatever “Linux” is.
Boycott Microsoft.
You can also install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint: https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-kde-plasma-on-linux-mint-22/. My own distro right now is TuxedoOS with KDE Plasma (Can go on any hardware, not just Tuxedo computers) and it works great for me.
A good alternative to Youtube is Freetube, a Youtube client that prevents tracking. https://freetubeapp.io/
Actually I don’t need any of those things you mention. It may be a mistake to assume that Linux phones should imitate Google/Apple phones.