I use graphene not for security but because it doesn't come with any Google surveillance stuff.
Let's be realistic if some 3 letters agency really want some data about me, there's not much I can do to counter that unless I'm ready to go to extreme lengths.
On the other hand KDE isn't very pretty and is a bit unstable.
But Dolphin is the only file manager that I can tolerate and last time I tried Gnome (43 on Fedora 37 beta) it couldn't handle switching of my second monitor (it made a mess of my virtual desktops).
Honestly Gnome isn't bad, you just have to adapt your workflow: instead of putting apps to the foreground by clicking on them in the taskbar just use a virtual desktop for the different activities.
> MySQL is a pretty poor database, and you should strongly consider using Postgres instead.
It's not like it's an industry secret either: when I started my CS training in 2007, the first course was about relational databases and one of the first things the teacher told us was that MySQL was pretty sucky.
The only successful revolutions are piloted by a small elite with further interests that may not coincide with the people.