That's an awesome story. If all your doing is browsing the Web or using applications that can easily and stably run on linux or have drop in replacements then linux would definitely be totally viable. On the other hand if you need to install specific proprietary applications and you have to rely on wine then maybe not.

The home server im setting up. I can finally break free of the clutches of cloud storage.

Thanks for posting that was really informative i was always intending on learning more about package managers at some point. What I wonder is when you want a package and it's available as both a dnf package and a flatpack which one should you chose?

I honestly don't see the big deal with people hating on proton. It's still open source it's still encrypted and doesn't mine your data that seams to check most of the boxes for me. The only problem I had with it was the default main client which shows upgrades to go unlimited all the time but I just use Thunderbird now.

Cryptomator is open source.

Piracy.

From what i've heard if your not willing to use the nvidia proprietary drivers then DON'T go for nvidia you will get terrible performance and amd will always be significantly better.

If you consider the proprietary drivers then I think it depends on your use case. For example AMD is better value if your gaming without ray tracing if you want to play with ray tracing or do any kind of productivity Nvidia is generaly the better option. For machine learning Nvidia has much better compatibility with everything so you will have a better time and better performance, Although if you only care about running the largest models you can with the available vram then AMD gpu's will have more vram for the price.

Intel arc is also always an option if you are aiming for a lower tire/mid range card. They have really price competitive cards and unlike amd they have very decent ray tracing and productivity capability's. They also have lots more vram for the price compared to Nvidia.

Also I highly recommend buying a used graphics card, you help the environment, save a lot of money and if you don't like the card you chose you can sell it for the same price your bought it and buy a different one.

Maybe if you could specify your use case and what cards you are currently looking at I could help you out more.

It's sad to see Firefox continue to lose popularity I thought there might be some kind of comeback but no.

Every game I want to play actually working first time everytime.

Not if you install a custom rom like graphene os. Or turn off all privacy invasive features in the settings.

Cruise ships. Not really a destination but I hate them so much.

Iphones do kind of suck though.