I don’t have the know how to talk about safety and privacy, but here are some caveats.

I think you have to use their client and can’t add your adress to 3rd party clients like thunderbird. Their client is however nice to work with.

If you forgot your password, the only way to change it is by using a key that is given to you after account creation. Keep it safe! Check for spelling errors If you lost the note or it’s not in you passwordmanager or whatever you use, your account is not recoverable. Their support can’t help you reset your pw.

Other than that they make email encryption pretty easy with a checkbox right under the recipient in the email editor.

Another handy feature are the aliases. (Payed feature) You can set up some email adresses for certain purposes, and filter their traffic into different inboxes quite easily. If one of them.get’s compromised, deactivate and move in. Your master adress is probably still usable.

What I do not like is the fact that paying customers get support first.

Since it’s the GPU fans only, I don’t think I have the skills to fix it. I’ll send it back. Thanks for your input :)

It’s the game development on a budget PC xD

Needs no bling but to get stuff done.

Do you have a recommendation where to look for fan drivers? In the package manager/ apt or do I have to hope the GPU manufacturer offers them?

Yeah, set the fans to 50/75/100 and they still had 0rpm. Did not expect that to happen at 100% tbh. I’ll try it again with other software, but I guess I’ll RMA.

I took a bit of a trustfall and bought an acer rx7600xt. Plan to get the same chip, but from a different, more reputable vendor next.

But I didn’t try Lact, thanks. I’ll give it a shot.

Had it installed via steam, gave it a shot, sadly didn’t work. But thanks still :D

I am upgrading my GPU soon, and wanted to prepared, if I’d need to upgrade kernel for new drivers. Flirted with an intel GPU for a bit and read that 6.11(?) was recommended. But I decided to got AMD so, that may be unnecessary now.

I am a Linux beginner so i could be wrong, but I believe Linux is very plug and play and has drivers already integrated. At least I don’t remember downloading any when I set it up. I am personally using Linux Mint Cinnamon with a GTX 1060. In Mint there is a Driver Manager preinstalled which let’s you pick a few nvidia drivers and an open source alternative, so it’s very beginner friendly :)

do I have to use the onboard graphics till i get everything installed?

To that I can confidentially say no: because I have no onboard graphics and always had video output ^^

I switched from Win10 to Mint, and am quite happy. You can get a lot of stuff done through GUI, so you can put off learning how to use the terminal a little. If you are worried about using it, I can recommend using ChatGPT. Helped me troubleshoot a lot of issues and learning a few tricks.

I knew it was to good to be true xD I managed to troubleshoot a few things over the past days so I am good atm. But thank you for your offer :)

I get it. I also don’t want to signal to Microsoft that switching to a subscription model is valid, for an OS I already payed for. I worry they’ll adapt it for all services released in the future, which are declining in quality. They are basically becoming Adobes ugly sibling.

I know, this is a contradictory statement to what I have written before which was driven by frustration mainly. Managed to troubleshoot a few things since then.

Lol sorry for the ramble but I hope this might help you feel a little less lost at the grocery store. ;)

Thank you for your detailed comment. :)

I am dual booting Linux Mint Cinnamon, and you are totally right. The “app store” is very nice and I was honestly impressed how much control Cinnamon offered and made it accessible for beginners through GUI. It felt more streamlined than Win10 in some places. Steam’s Proton is also a huge deal, as most games work great with it enabled out of the box. I do however often feel lost. I didn’t expect that but the thing most difficult for me is basic stuff, like navigating the start menu. I really like the customization Win10 offered and miss it dearly.

I guess it is part not having a feeling on how Cinnamon works yet. After using Windows since 2006 I know my way around it failry well, and I don’t have that “gut-feeling” in Linux yet. It will come with time, but atm I am feeling a little defeated.

Jesus. How did you get that from what I have written

I find myself actually considering paying 30$ a year for prolonged windows 10 support because I find the switch to linux really overwhelming. Like being sent grocery shopping, but all lables are in traditional chinese. Some things you can figure out very easily, but troubleshooting anything takes me days.

Thing is, and I say that as a windows user with a little experience in linux: I got no idea what you are talking about, and I doubt many windows users do.

Can’t tell if you are ragebaiting or sincerely not considering police violence/ power abuse by police officers, which I think FuglyDucly is referring to.

(After reading through most comments here, I think it is trolling)