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Awwwee you mean I shouldn't have chosen MX Linux and nord VPN?
what's wrong with MX? isn't it basically just debian stable but with xfce as default?
I'm just saying that privacy newbies always ask about nord (which is far from the top recommended commercial VPN) because they see ads for it everywhere.
And Linux newbies ask about MX a lot because its at the top of the distrowatch list, though its nowhere near the top most-used Linux distros.