I tried a bunch of alternatives and also landed on Joplin. Been using it for a couple years and it works great!

Can confirm. I’ve played the first one on Steam Deck and it plays great. The new launcher is super easy to use as well.

That may be true. But I’m still optimistic about the Motorola partnership. Hopefully it’ll fill a gap in the market to provide a prebuilt phone with less spyware. Maybe it’ll even start a trend with other manufacturers. https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

Not surprising considering Google strong armed their own app as the only option for RCS. I didn’t love Samsung Messages, but I hate Google Messages so much. All the dumb shit they add, like the banana remix button on photos, an emoji focused mode for photos, and recently adding @ mentioning. This isn’t Teams. I don’t want this shit in my text messages. I just want read receipts. That’s it. Sorry, rant over.

This is awesome. I’m definitely going to use this to try out various distros even though I’m happy with Linux Mint. Thanks for sharing!