It seems more that the cat with tinfoil is him. I have been using Linux partially since 1994 and exclusively since 2010 (aprox), never more things were so "just work" and smooth for me like right now. I began using Wayland since this last Kubuntu 25.10, because before even if some things were better I have few problems with my work software, now suspend its perfect, desktop grid with videogames is perfect, multi monitor is great ... even if I have to use a Nvidia GPU on a laptop!
The cryptography is sound, however, it's also frequently changing, in addition to straying from standards more or less. This makes it difficult to give a firm answer.
This ETH (i.e. Zurich) paper[0] identified several exploitable vulnerabilities (bad), which were quickly addressed by delta chat (good).
So overall, I'd see it as a good messenger, but with downsides.
I deleted my matrix account after I receive some very nasty spam in form of Element Android notification. I think it wasn't Matrix direct fault, but as I used some Matrix chat groups and the list of member was public .. But I got really alarmed and angry when I receive so disgusting spam.
Because usually it works, the out of the box deb + snap + flatpak, polished experience cozy look with some presets to minimice friction, + ubuntu LTS its a nice pack.
I really wish to could use Wayland, but there is too much problems or bugs related to the software I use for work and also play. I will test it again with this new version Blender (that was one of that software with problems).
In general, most repositories use old stable versions of Blender. And often folks are reduced to using snap to maintain version specific Compatibility with add-ons etc.
Also, getting the most out of Intel+RTX CUDA card render machines sometimes means booting into windows for proper driver support. Sad but true... =3
