The doom and gloom has been happening since the early 70’s yet here we are when we should have been frozen, burnt to a crisp, frozen, dehydrated to death, seen New York City underwater, burnt to a crisp again and then frozen. The headlines could be made by a Magic 8 Ball. Its not science when the data is hidden by the words “Proprietary”
I’d try Debian or if you’re feeling adventurous, EndeavourOS.
I like GNOME better with extensions. My main reason for using it is Wayland.
This is really just a power-grab move. There already is “Let’s Encrypt” - try going to a website that isn’t https. You’ll know right away that you might have typed a web address wrong.