Yeah, I do miss that, but idk how much of it is nostalgia and how much is an absolute aesthetic preference. I think the main reason for the change though is Microsoft trying to make Windows work well on mobile devices though, meaning forgoing the aero and more expensive VFX.

Wish some DEs would make their default style more like a win7 era style. Would be nice to have the variety.

Unless law enforcement is out to get ya

Seems like a huge oversight in privacy communities, which are frequented by people with state actor level threat models.

Others have already advised you on how to run Windows games, but in my experience with these games:

The Sims

I’ve been playing it just fine on Wine, check EA App on AppDB

Cities Skylines

The first game has a native Linux version, not sure how the second game runs on Proton

Stardew Valley

Native Linux

Minecraft

It’s Java so cross-platform, including Linux

Generally you can check ProtonDB for Steam games, and AppDB for others.

I also haven’t had issues with my self-hosted Nextcloud, DAVx, and Fossify Calendar. Has worked without hiccups for me.

If only the user has the key then there’s no real concern with the data being handed over

Sure, but tracking period data can be very helpful for people. For a threat model of abortion criminalisation (or maybe trans healthcare criminalisation with treatments stopping periods, or really any kind of restrictions on medical autonomy), encryption at rest of locally stored period data is perfectly sufficient. They are not going to send military intelligence agencies after a random person having an abortion. It is actually a relatively low threat model, like equivalent to buying drugs online or something like that.

I wonder how many average users would be bothered to export their period database and transfer to a new phone every time they get a new phone. I do that when I get a new phone (not often, I use my phones till they break/are literally unusable and unfixable), but I’ve had real trouble getting other people to do these kinds of things.

That’s true. I use user profiles on GrapheneOS and have to have each profile count as its own device in Mullvad, when obviously I’m not going to be using them simultaneously.

How are you trying to using WG? I had issues with wg quick up or whatever it is, not bothered to check, but adding wireguard connections as NetworkManager interfaces works flawlessly for me.

The KDE spin of Fedora could be a good option if you want to avoid Canonical. KDE is also Wayland, though probably less touchscreen oriented than GNOME (which you can install on Fedora obviously, but a requirement to install a DE is not the most noob-friendly)

Even if they owned the whole LF, the Linux Foundation does not develop systemd lol

Why on earth do they need to know hostname? MAC addresses?

Idk about other sources, but I get my apk directly from GitHub via Obtainium, and my app recently changed from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird. Icon, app name, and app theming changed. This has been in the works for a while but seems like they’re officially switched the apk.

I don’t have many so I just put them all in ~/own_repos (as opposes to another directory I have for other people’s git repos). Maybe if/when I have more projects I’ll have a more elaborate system.

Finally, the year of the Linux desktop

No worries, was just confused lol

I… never said it only synced with Nextcloud? Or are you just providing additional information for people?

Recently started using this synced with my Nextcloud. Really happy with it, only complaint is the fact that I can’t remove their “Regular event” calendar

Well I know that, that’s kind of the point of any encryption at rest that isn’t also E2EE. I am the server admin in this case so I trust my own pinky promise that I’m encrypting emails at rest.

Yeah you should turn it off, Mullvad’s DNS servers already give you DNS privacy. I forget which DNS servers Firefox’s DoH uses, but it will use some other DNS servers for Firefox with DoH enabled, which presumably you don’t want if you went out of your way to set your DNS servers to Mullvad’s.