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  • There is no one best, as we wish there would be. Depends what you want.

    XMPP and Matrix are definetly the most based ones, because you are not tying yourself to one particular app and server, they're the common languages. And this is what I would want to use for mass communication and as a base, default.

    Signal is nice if those above are not enough developed yet for you. Easy to switch friends into and discover contacts with it's phonebook based nature. But there is no open API for thrid-party apps, only reverse engineering from open source code.
    If you don't need calls Matrix has a bridge so you can use both at the same time.

    There are also the most anonymous ones, like Briar, SimpleX or Session, there is a lot of them. For me their usage is when two or more people want really private chat and both agree on the app. I really can't and don't want to see them as the default.






  • One thing that could help is showing what is going wrong. Do just the icon does not appear? Do some error show up?

    But regardless, I see that Librewolf is not packaged in Debian official software repositories (online storage a software packages are downloaded from), so they ask you to add their own repository manually, which for APT case (package manager in Linux Mint) is an overwhelming amount of code to type to say at least.

    You say you are a new user, so I can highly recommend that if something is not officially available through simple apt install to try Flatpak. Official guide: https://flathub.org/setup/Debian, TLDR:

    sudo apt install flatpak   # Installs flatpak to your system
    flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo   # Adds Flathub, the biggest store for flatpaks
    

    Once it's there:

    flatpak install librewolf
    

    Someone using Linux for years might know where stuff on system is placed and not fear not knowing what a command do and how to undo it. But if you don't know what is happening, better to stick to distribution provided sources. Otherwise the equivalent would be like typing some commands in Windows to change registry keys :). I think Librewolf should recommend Flatpak by default instead.

    Sorry if this is too much info, just tried to explain things a little more than usual.