GNU Taler is inferior anyway, and it has been existing for many years with exact zero of usage.

Imagine reinventing Chaumian e-cash 40 year later and promoting it as a innovative approach in digital payments.

It could be private or could be not. But in a world of total financial surveillance and initiatives like ChatControl, I doubt it will be really private.

Tor Browser does, but differently. It attempts to behave in the same way an all platforms, ignores installed libs/fonts/etc, uses letterboxing against resolution fingerprinting.

https://support.torproject.org/tbb/maximized-torbrowser-window/

Give attention to Qubes OS also, It’s the easiest way for separating apps for different tasks, using them with different proxies (VPNs, Tor) or profiles at the same tame.

Tor Browser is the best way.

Probably, because of the background image.

Hopefully, never.

Mozilla regularly buys proprietary services and provides them as exclusive FF features nobody asked.

Distros are unnecessary entities and don’t improve anything here. What is needed it’s separation of the system and the apps, where apps are provided in sandboxed bundles with permissions. It will solve a lot of issues, not only one you have mentioned. And try to imagine amount of years needed for understanding or explaining importance of this to the GNU/Linux community. A viable desktop OS, huh?

Society will suffer anyway. It doesn’t make solutions magically appear. You only said why you want it, but not how to do it. To transform GNU/Linux distros into a viable desktop OS is not an easy task, especially when people don’t have a consensus about what it should be.

“Desktop” Linux exists in this state for decades. Who cares? Maybe we won’t have consumer desktops as a niche soon. Existing users are fine with that. Don’t say you are waiting that Linux will become “a viable desktop OS alternative” in next few years.

It’s also not about “desktop and sever variants”. Desktop Linux is either conservative or underresourced. Conservatives will told you that you are wrong and there is no issue. And they are major Linux zealots. For the other side someone need to write code and do system design, and there are not many of people for that. So, it’s better not to expect a solution anytime soon, if you are not planning to work on it by yourself.

Linux defaults are optimized for performance and not for desktop usability.

IMO it is a combination of two bad ideas.

Disto packages had issues with unofficial repos like forever.

Tor.

Oh no. I’m fine with installation. What with I’m not fine it’s requirement to access some websites to load an app, dependence from DNS in inner links, inability to proxy it through overlay networks, protection from spamming the network. Lack of everything what could make it deserve to be named P2P app. I just don’t want to see it placed in the same category with BitTorrent, I2P or RetroShare.

ChromeOS doesn’t get much attention and resources from Google currently. No major things has happened since Crostini, and the planned separation of the browser from the system hasn’t happened yet. So I don’t expect to see results of these news anytime soon. It’s a matter of a decade.

For becoming something noticeable Nostr firstly need to go beyond just a bitcoin maxi discussion platform. Currently it’s just a decentralized Parler.