Well, Brave is -regardless of the companies decisions- still a damn good browser with many build in essentials (TOR, IPFS, Bittorrent…), so, while I PERSONALLY don’t use this anymore (currently I use an heavily patched suckless surf and Dillo) I don’t see much wrong in including this in a distribution especially catering to users switching from windows.

That is not what i meant, what i wanted to say is: “Would you trust software from Russia without having completely audited the code?”.

The thing is… would you trust a software that is developed in russia (without a full code audit)? I think at the moment its the same with anything coming from the US.

Well, for me it would be the setup i am now using since about 15 years:

WM: flwm Filemanager: ROX-Filer Background: feh

… and a ton of tools i accumulated over the yesrs