turn off the ‘notify when apps request location’ setting at the bottom of settings->privacy->location
it isn’t being “killed”, it’s just EOL, on schedule. the death-blow comes if windows version has a similar digital certificate expiry baked-in like office mac does. which would be a first on windows, because old (even really old) office versions do still work–just don’t get security fixes once EOL.
no-ai duckduckgo is one url away:
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
fedora is still clinging to their curated and much smaller flatpak repo, but it’s easy enough to disable theirs and add flathub.
but yea, having common drivers configured ‘out of the box’ is a huge bonus that most derivatives have.
i’ve been doing a lot of testing here on a newer system to see what works best on it. even debian is easier to add proper intel alchemist support than fedora.
don’t do it tommy!
part of that ball will rub off on your tum-tum, and in 30-40 years you won’t even need the ball to pretend to look like that.