Nah, the show starts with great ideas but ends up being just bad.
It's poorly written, basically replacing one open plot by another until nothing make sens.
jc141 release on 1337x are the best, no install, minimal space used and you can keep seeding without wasting space on a useless-after-first-use installer.
For instance jc141 release of Silksong is 1.9Gb \
while fitgirl version is 1.6Gb installer + 7.6Gb installed.
To be fair, unlike Signal and Matrix, Tox does not rely on external server, it is full P2P. In that regard, setting up a Tox network is infinitely simpler.
Also, the only thing you leak is your IP address that end up in tox DHT, which is a necessity for peers to be able to reach you. It could easily be hidden behind Tor or a VPN.
Using ublock origin picker to remove everything useless.
Like, Youtube suggestions, everything but download button on ddl websites, useless footers/headers on news, etc...
FWIW instead of dpkg -i stuff.deb, you can use apt as such: apt install ./stuff.deb (The path syntax like ./ is required to use a local file instead of searching for a package name).
Unlike dpkg, apt is able to fetch dependencies if needed.
There is no game