“what are you saying? That I can quit vim?”

“no Neo, what I’m saying is - when you’re ready, you won’t have to.”

That’s pretty cool, great job!

I’ve worked on FOSS stuff with very large user bases and seen very obvious flaws go unnoticed for several years, so I guess most people don’t.

It’s pretty bad at anything with large amounts of both data and formulas.

As an example, if you try to make a spreadsheet for managing resources of any basic Colony Sim game (something with a list of items and recipes to turn them into other items and keep track of quantities), then you’re already beyond the computing capacity of the browser based excel.

The average retail store where I live is still selling computers with 6+ years old CPUs as “gamer edition”.

There’s a typo there so I think it’s fake.

I get that a lot with all kinds of services. Specially digital stuff. And for MMOs it is more common than not.

Recently the Path of Exile game stopped letting me purchase cosmetics because they changed their payment processor and the new one doesn’t like my email address.

I would try finding some de-bloated windows iso and try the VM route anyway. If your pc can run windows directly without much trouble, it should be able to run a lighter version of it on a VM too. You can dedicate most of your hardware resources to the VM and just no run anything else alongside it when you are working on an iPhone.

And I never understood how to use it. If I click on a Google result from Pinterest I’m always taken to something completely different.

Some times you may need to install a few extra stuff to get a game to run properly, other times you may see a few visual glitches like a pop-up menu not rendering properly, but you’re unlikely to find any game that just can’t run on Linux unless the devs intentionally don’t want people to play it on Linux.

Check protondb for general compatibility of any games you play.

Sadly most times I needed one, I either didn’t know enough to be able to use it properly, or the PC was under too heavy a load that even the TTY was not responding.

Are you telling me there’s a reason why I have to click shutdown twice for gnome to start the shutdown process? I always wondered why it had that 60s waiting time.

Element does it natively? As in, it’s a feature of Element and not some integration with a different tool? I didn’t even expect calls to be a part of the matrix protocol yet.

Mint is often the most recommended distro, because whatever you may need to do in it, it tends to be easy-ish to figure out.

But these days I would strongly recommend in favor of some immutable distro like Bluefin/Aurora or Silverblue/kinoite. Instead of being easy to figure out how to do things on them, they make it so you won’t need to, ever.

It’s a complete paradigm shift and it might not be for everyone, but in the decades I’ve been using Linux for, I had never had such a smooth experience with any distro. Everything just works and you don’t need to think about the OS anymore.

However it won’t easily fit with some of the requirements you listed.

You’re right that the e2ee part is only about protecting the data while in transit, but that is because it’s the hardest part. Apps can also store the data in an encrypted format so that other apps won’t be able to read it.

Having control over the OS doesn’t help if the OS doesn’t understand the app’s data.

Provides a single process that can be used by all message apps so that they don’t need to implement backdoors into all of them?

I remember a time back when I still used twitter, thinking: “oh guess I’ll follow that dude who created Javascript” then shortly after wondering: “why is there so much stupid shit showing up on my timeline lately?”.

You can create files with the same name differing only by case through WSL. I’ve had issues with it before.