It’s my informed opinion that you are wrong on both points, but you are of course entitled to your opinion.

How are you giving google your data if it’s from a tempmail?

Also, can you please point out to me where in OPs post does it mention anything about privacy? It specifically mentions not paying, not privacy concerns.

No, I use an account, created with a tempmail address.

Not possible? That’s precisely what I do.

Why do people complicate their lives so much?

Firefox+ublock origin+ privacy badger does it for me.

I’m a Linux user since the age of Slackware diskette installs.

I tried Bazzite, or Aurora, rather, and found that it wasn’t for me. Having to spin up distro boxes or VMs to do things that are pacman -Syu some-random-app in my current distro, is just not for me.

I lived in ultrastable Debianland for years, and recently tried Script Kiddie Arch (CachyOS). I have my at-least-for-now forever home.

I have a fairly bleeding edge distro that is slick, fast, polished, friendly, and If something goes boom, I have snapper and pika backing up, so in a few minutes all is back to normal, so the main selling point of atomic/immutable distro is kind of irrelevant to me, and I don’t have to live in a system where the important decisions are made for me.

I have an old iMac for that.

CachyOS is friendlier and less problematic than W11, and if you need help, it’s wiki + Arch’s legendary wiki + community is way more useful than your average Windows “run DISM” bullshit.

x-plane 12!! Finally!! I mean, X-plane is Linux native, but I really wanted to play the Windows version in Linux.

A couple of decades back I was a Systems Manager at a small campus, and personally admin’d one of the servers. There was a server in the room that had a 3 year uptime when I left. May have been running longer after that.

“Kid”? Man, to call me kid you must be a really old fuck.

I really don’t get this outrage thing. Outrage because all eggs become expensive? Yes, because they are close to essential, or at least very important for a lot of people’s diet, and they all get more expensive. Outrage for some game platform shenanigans? Don’t give them your fucking money.

Yes, but some do things better than others. CachyOS is btrfs by default, and does btrfs better than most. Btrfs is a bit more complex than your vanilla ext4.

Bazzite excels at gaming related things. Alpine at lightweight stuff, Nix at inmutability, etc…

That is one of the defining characteristics of Linux.

CachyOS is very btrfs savvy. I would try booting from a CachyOS ISO.

Does this work in Linux?

I don’t know how it’s done, but here is a screencap of an update today:

I use some Flatpaks. Flatpaks sometimes create problems with paths and permissions and stuff. They are generally useful, as are appimages when created by the author(s), but are not a panacea. Also, there are flatpaks not created by the official source.

Reading the reply above I realized half my post is redundant :)

Cachy’s new package manager, Shelly, which is awesome, BTW (writing about arch or derivatives without using BTW is against the law, remember.) does checks on AUR packages when installing or updating. Zoey rocks!

I do some work for an org that is MS office centric. They provide me with an office license, and space in one drive. I essentially use office to check final output to share with them, but do the actual work in LO. The only thing that goes in onedrive is their stuff.

Print shops usually don’t have solvent printers, which are the type used for outdoor signs and stickers. Look for a sign making business.

If you ask nicely, and explain that you don’t mind waiting until they have a waste space on their print queue, they may charge you very little or nothing.

The reason for the explanation is to let them know that you know that when arranging jobs in the queue there are often waste spaces that they would discard anyway.

I have icons on my desktop, icons in my taskbar, and of course the menu. taskbar, always there, one click, boom! second tier apps, desktop, less used stuff, open menu.

I use KDE BTW

No, starfish just.