Gabadabs

I do not believe, at all, that linux needs to grow. We don’t need to appeal to every casual pc user, because for most of these people what they are using already works just fine for them - and if they don’t already have the drive to learn about and try linux on their own, there’s no reason to shove it in their faces.

The Ace Attorney Chronicles. It’s two ace attorney games bundled, and I’m playing it on switch. You play as a defense attorney and try to solve crimes and defend your client, and the cases are top notch.

If I’m being totally honest, my primary use-case is gaming. I only have linux installed on my device, and if a game doesn’t work, I simply play other things and hope it will eventually work.
Sometimes, with some effort, you can get windows programs to work using wine. For example, I was able to run Mod Organizer 2 to mod skyrim without issues. If that fails and your software won’t work in wine, you could either find alternative native linux software or just dual-boot. I used to do that to play VR games in windows 10 since I’ve had issues running them in linux. Another option is to run a windows Virtual Machine whenever you need whatever software you can’t get working, but there’s pretty bad performance limitations unless you can get hardware passthrough working.

The game has it’s issues, don’t get me wrong. You need to build the teleporter for the main quest, which does require some materials, but so long as you’re picking stuff up as you’re looting, you’ll often just have what you need.

I don’t know that there’s a mod, but the building really can be mostly ignored outside of a small handful of quests. It’s mostly optional.

I’m really not convinced that even if linux, at some point, does become a better platform for gaming than windows, that windows users will swap over. Mainstream gamers probably have never installed an OS before, it’s intimidating for people.

I know it’s maybe not a great replacement for everyone, but this crap is why I stopped using YouTube and just use Peertube now.

I’m not totally against all telemetry… but can they at least be transparent about when they use it, and exactly what they’re collecting? It really could be as simple as just defaulting to asking the user.

I don’t know much about 1Password, but I’ve been using BitWarden for years.
The autofill feature is nice, but sometimes you’ll have to unlock the vault for it to continue to work, which can be a pain at times. It’s pretty flexible, you can save personal information and cards on top of logins, and it has a password generator built in that I pretty much always use now for making my passwords. It’s not fancy, but it’s really functional, and works on all my devices without issues.

What you need to do, is engage with people so that you’re getting federated content from the instances they are on. It takes time, my strategy was to follow anyone I thought was remotely interesting, and then unfollow people I end up not caring much for until I had a nice curated, populated timeline. It definitely helps to not be on a tiny instance, but it’s not necessary to be on big ones like mastodon.social.