You could submit this as Ask HN.

Replacing the old boss with another one that's the same? You should go to an independent, paid email provider instead.

which ones do you recommend instead?

Fastmail is good

Tuta.com is good.

> I am not that sure my next phone will be an iPhone.

> The first time I used GNOME, it was a breeze.

So you may be interested in GNU-like Linux phones with UI based on Gnome.

> Sounds like an unauthorized access of my computer

This is exactly what Stallman and the FSF have been saying forever, but nobody believed them, https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-apple.en.html

So you are starting to fight with your computer, just like users of Windows.

> It is unthinkable to me that anyone believes there is such a thing as computer security after so many years of nonstop hacks and leaks.

There were only two VM escapes from Qubes OS in the last 20 years [0]. How is this not sufficiently secure?

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/qsb-116-multiple-xen-issues-xsa...

> Unfortunately this is an ideological hill that many Linux devs are willing to die on, so we're at an impasse.

This is no longer the reason, as FLOSS implementation exists now: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.20909

These are web apps, they are unlikely to use anything other than what the browser/OS provide them. This is most likely due to lousy audio drivers, an issue plaguing desktop Linux since its very inception.

> issues with audio during Zoom, Teams, and Google Meetings sessions

I don't know about the app but it has been a solved problem on linux using the web browser early in 2020 when people started getting sent home due to the covid and remaining bugs were quickly ironed out.

Interestingly, Firefox handles all three like a champ. Even uses XDG portals so I can share a single window or just audio if I want. Chrome took ages to get support, and it's still hit & miss.

Teams refuses to work on Firefox, or at least did so not so long ago (like as in it "tells you no won't try" not as in "has bugs"). Same for slack.

I think to remember that the most absurd thing was that if you tell Teams "this is chrome" (even when it's FF) it did work just fine.

This is plain false. NSA was threatened and many more.