That's a good starter list. However it should be noted that all the Simple apps should be avoided now and instead people should use the forked versions from Fossify.

See the following post for more information: https://lemmy.world/post/11117891

Non pay-walled version: https://archive.ph/gz2dM

Paywalled article ahead. You can use archive.is to see a the full text if you want to read the whole article and not just the headline.

Link to archive version: https://archive.ph/XSZn5

And/or with SponsorBlock if you don't care about sending that data to the open APIs. It's pretty useful if some channels you watch have a lot of sponsors, self promotions, etc.

Thank you! I didn't know they also made an app that does this. For anyone looking for the link it's the following: https://grayjay.app/

I'd also recommend looking into their other projects such as their Android voice input app: https://voiceinput.futo.org/

Or other projects: https://futo.org/projects/

I personally use Mullvad and love it but it is not conducive to helping seed due to port forwarding being blocked.

Phone app? Yes you have to use their own app. On a computer besides the browser version you can use Thunderbird and other applications if you download ProtonBridge.

Yes I've been using DAVx⁵ for many years to sync my Synology Calendar to my phone via WebDAV and my contacts via CardDAV. Any concerns you have?

AltTab: Windows alt-tab on macOS

Rectangle: Keyboard based window management.

Linear Mouse: Per-device settings for Mouse, Track Pad, etc. Things like pointer super, scroll direction, and mouse acceleration.

Now that Steam is all in on the Steam Deck and SteamOS there is much better support for games on Linux. See ProtonDB.

Also, the Linux distro Pop!_OS has worked quite well for me for games. I use the NVIDIA version which bundles NVIDIA's propietary library blobs which also helps with the game compatibility.

But all in all I agree with you that even with all of this it is not as smooth as just click and play on Windows. 🙂 Plus some games just don't work on Linux at all so there's that. Lol.

Species from 1995. Parents and their friends were watching it and told us to not come in because it was too scary.

I thought they were bullshitting young me...I was wrong. Lol. Had wonderful nightmares for a while.

Did you read all three books? Got real WTF in book 2 and 3.