Were I Take-Two, or any other similar company, I would hire the developers. Reverse engineering is difficult and if they managed to also bring improvements and port the code to other systems other than Windows, I would be like: "Hell, work for me and let's make next GTA/Assasins/whatever even better!"

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Mainly Cyberpunk 2077, and doing some side-missions on Dragon Ball Kakarot, which I finished few weeks ago. A DnD session with some friends too, even though no strictly a video game, definitely played on Linux due to the online session :D

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Quoting: mark348Divinity 2 is at a great price too

Does it run well in Proton?

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Quoting: drlamb

Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: minkiu

How do you like these keyboards? Did it take long to get used to them? I attempted to use one before I knew how to type properly and it was a mind bender.

I have issues typing on standard keyboards comfortably due to American football injuries to both hands. This led me to prefer chiclet keyboards over mechanical due to the low actuation force. It wasn't until I forced myself to learn to type properly that ergonomic keyboards started to "click" for me. I've now got the logitech Ergo K860 [External Link] and I love it. If this keyboard had back-lighting and the build quality of the MX keys it would be perfect in my eyes.

The open source firmware and the fact that system76 makes this keyboard makes me want it but I'm afraid it would be physically painful for me to use. Hopefully there is an ample return window as I'd really like to try it.

I haven't tried it yet, too expensive. Only have experience with an MS ergo keyboard similar to the Logi you posted, and it was a delight to type with. Then I discovered mechanical keyboards and not keen going back to chiclet keys. Have been saving for a while for the Moonlander, but for now I'm using a Phantom non-ergo keyboard.

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Hope they release a nice keyboard. Unfortunately, since I learned from the ZSA Moonlander my eyes can't look anywhere else: https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/ [External Link]

However, my wallet is looking everywhere else.

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Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: ArehandoroStill a long way ahead, at least another year for proper delivery, but people willing to get off Google in their smartphones could look into the Librem 5, or PinePhone if someone isn't a heavy phone user because the performance is still under par. Real Linux smartphones are around the corner, and we all know they're the future.

Just saying: I'm posting from a Sony XPeria XA2, running Sailfish OS. If that's not "real Linux", then I don't know what else.

It is, but you had to purchase the device with Android, or from someone that installed Sailfish OS on it, and it's not supported by the vendor ;)

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Quoting: no_information_hereI learned not to trust Google quite a while ago, but it is certainly hard for regular people to avoid its services.

Quoting: ArehandoroEmail: https://www.posteo.de [External Link]
Nextcloud: https://www.thegood.cloud [External Link]
Article vault: https://www.wallabag.it [External Link]
Password manager: https://bitwarden.com [External Link]
Comms: https://www.matrix.org [External Link] (Any client will do, the official is https://element.io/get-started [External Link])
Video-conferencing: https://meet.jit.si [External Link]
External Backups: https://backblaze.com [External Link]

Nice list, here is mine:

Email (incl basic webhosting): https://fastmail.com [External Link] (excellent service)
Password manager: https://keepassxc.org/ [External Link] (offline)
Messaging: https://signal.org/en/ [External Link]
External Backups: https://spideroak.com/ [External Link]
Maps: https://www.openstreetmap.org/ [External Link]
Phone Maps: https://osmand.net/ [External Link]
Phone Authenticator: https://freeotp.github.io/ [External Link]

I still end up using a few google services (maps, youtube) occasionally, but generally not as a logged-in customer.

Yeah, the hardest for me is definitely maps. I use openstreetmaps a lot, but the commodity to search by postcode in the UK, having updated bars/restaurants (pre-Covid19) and so on makes it a must in comparison. For bike touring and hiking though, and offline maps, osmandMaps is much, much better.

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Ah, I mustn't forget! If any of you is involved with the FOSS community and needs of infrastructure, please also look at: https://fosshost.org [External Link]

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Still a long way ahead, at least another year for proper delivery, but people willing to get off Google in their smartphones could look into the Librem 5, or PinePhone if someone isn't a heavy phone user because the performance is still under par. Real Linux smartphones are around the corner, and we all know they're the future.

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

Quoting: TheSHEEEPE-mail wise, I thankfully host my own (or, well, pay a provider to host it for me)

Yes, and then Google just randomly throws half the mails you send to people with gmail accounts into their spam folder, where the recipients never see them...

I have a VPS in Digitalocean running a mail server for over 3 years and didn't really have an issue with that. There is, https://postmaster.google.com [External Link] where a domain can be included so Gmail validates the authenticity of said domain. With that in place, everything goes to normal inbox.

Having said that, using a provider like some mentioned in the post is more reliable, painless and in most cases cheaper too.

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