I self-hosted my own email for a few years, everything was set up and reporting correctly, but Google just would never have it. I think the worst is it would be a bit inconsistent.

Anyway, I switched to an email provider with my own domain and it’s much more reliable. That is until this week, I have noticed that some services are rejecting my domain. I think there is some whitelisting nonsense going on, but in those instances I just use an alias and that seems to work.

I just want to have control of my data!

Just brings a tear to my eye knowing someone else is starting on their Linux journey 🥲

This is a fantastic comment!

To add to this I would start towards Fedora as it’s stable but also fresh, and as lots of people have been saying try Gnome as your desktop environment.

Asahi Linux is for Apple silicon macs only, and as their macbook is 11 years old it can’t be an apple silicon version.