My experience has been fine. If you go into Proton Mail with the understanding that you’re doing it to stop Google from data mining your email, and not for the sake of truly private/anonymous email, you’ll have a good time. The aliasing feature is super nice as well.

I usually stay away from the political content for the reason you mentioned, but I figured I’d chime in and say I think this was a good decision. Stonetoss is a piece of shit, but there are plenty of other places on the internet for posts like that to happen.

I still use Clonezilla to back up devices before performing reinstalls/major updates (when Timeshift isn’t practical). No issues so far backing up and restoring both Windows and Linux partitions/drives.

Fedora. I love Debian as well, but both of my computers needed more recent libraries, and now I’m curious to see how far I can take these installs.

Curious question: what does the business internet plan get you over the home plan? I’m on Comcast Business right now, but I’m always looking for better options (plus we’re looking at getting a 5G failover at work).

I use Debian as a default and Fedora when I need a newer kernel/newer libraries. You aren’t weird at all. Or, at least we’re weird together. :)

I’m watching Cinnamon’s Wayland rollout with great interest. No Pipewire sharing yet (among other things), but I’m excited for the future.

Well, “just works” in the Todd Howard interpretation. ;)

Shoot, I’d probably be one of them if not for my need to have Wayland and slightly newer libraries for my A770.

Welcome to the party! Never let anyone get you down for using a “beginner” distro; it’s perfectly valid to want a system that just works. :)

Honestly, if Mint has been working fine then I see no reason that you’d need to switch. If you’re curious about trying out other distros, it could be worth using a program like Boxes to try out some VM’s. Otherwise, I say you keep doing whatever works well for you.

As other have mentioned, setting up Timeshift + a firewall is a good start. I’m 99% sure that LM guides you through both of these processes on first boot, but it’s a good thing to check on anyways. LM is pretty sanely put together out of the box, so I’d honestly just recommend you use it as-is and tweak things when/if you run into something that isn’t doing it for you.

Other than that, welcome to the party!

Timeshift supports rsync snapshots. No btrfs needed :)

Nevermind the government or hackers, I use a home-grown VPN to keep Comcast off my ass.

It’s not too exciting, but I’ve got an old Lenovo EMC2 NAS that’s probably from the early 10s. I was also running a Pi 1B as a DNS server until it gave up on life.

Beyond what people have posted, I also believe I saw something about GNOME planning to implement something like this soon™️

Probably COSMIC. I’m also excited to maybe see HDR and improved tiling in GNOME.

I own and have opened Factorio but I feel like I’d need a firmware update for my brain to be able to play it well.

Finally I can put my modded Minecraft experience to the test

Also true, but only if I’m the one criticizing it. 😉