Sonalder

Education + Up to date and highly popular distro with tons of contributors + good track record regarding security

Yeah it is dependant on Google and Google can do censorship. However from personnal experience (maybe it differ in different countries) Google does less censorship than Microsoft at least regarding their search engines.

SearXNG instances, bravesearch, startpage, etc…

I verified that and you’re correct. They also use Yahoo! for ads

Wait Ecosia switched from Bing to Google?

Startpage was the only commercial search engine indexing Google from my knowledge.

As there is (prove me if I’m wrong) no current way to dump and decrypt Switch2 games this is a highly probable hoax. I wouldn’t consider this to be true and be extermely careful.

By default PRISM doesn’t allow you to add offline account without login a MS account that own the Java Edition. But you can edit a file in order to bypass this restriction. The Ely fork of PRISM doesn’t have that restriction.

https://rentry.co/prism4free

Or https://github.com/ElyPrismLauncher/ElyPrismLauncher

Movies 1127 TV Shows 96

Exactly, I started using it for that game!

I am using r2modman most of the time and it works well for the modded games I play on my machine. I uses Thunderstore so it might not have the biggest library of mods for all your titles but it’s worth mentioning imo.

Depending on the game but on my machine I have Sudachi and Kenji-NX depending on the games I play :

https://alternativeto.net/lists/29770/the-ultimate-emulator-list/

Eden (Citron fork) seems great such as Torzu

ZorinOS maybe ?

Bazzite is great for gaming !

Nobara too.

If you don’t mind seperated tools that do well in their own :

• Zulip for chat
• Jitsi for video meeting
• And whatever calendar you want for the calendar

In my opinion OS is software, many people are working on it and I don’t think their work is worth 0$ (maybe Windows being the exception lol).

I disagree with you however I find it attrocious than when you upgrade (exemple from ZorinOS 16 to 17) if you own a Pro licence you have to buy a new licence (with a discount) and can’t “downgrade” to non-Pro (except from reinstalling it from scratch). I think the way the Pro is sold shouldn’t put upgrade behind a paywall.

Selling a (bloated) Pro version to bring cash isn’t necesseraly cancer it really depend on what you get and how you’re treated. And with ZorinOS I was somewhat disapointed…

ZorinOS or the recent AnduinOS can be very Windows like with modernish windows sex appeal as you call it.

Edit: If a gamer you could add Nobara with its own theme or bazzite with KDE.

You’re right I was certain it was doing both editing and managment but my memory played me

StirlingPDF ? Website : https://www.stirlingpdf.com/ GitHub : https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF

I agree with you. My dream is that every public school should use and contribute to FOSS and FOSH, but I’m an utopiste. Honestly I wish Serif would at least free some of its codebase but that’s very unlikely. I would like to have these proprietary software as I still rely on them for my workflow on a GNU/Linux machine rather than macOS and that sounds more reasonnable for a private company building private code and selling licences. Today it’s some of the few software that I can’t run on GNU/Linux to ditch a proprietary OS for work.

I have finally ditched Windows years ago after living my whole childhood in that proprietary crappy spyware environment and did tried many FOSS tools for professionnal work and I do use some (PenPot, blender, OBS, Thunderbird, VSCodium (and Zed a bit), LibreOffice, Nextcloud, UltimakerCura and Signal to name a few).

Unfortunately I still do rely on proprietary software (and these rely on proprietary OS) and yeah there is a reason for that : I need to get the work done. They have the money proprietary licence advantage over FOSS tools of course but hey a small part of the money I make thanks to these proprietary tools are sent to foss projects I want to support. It’s not as big as I wish and I don’t have enough time nor skills to contribute as much as I want to the Free World in general but I do my part and it has grown over the years.

I would prefer relying on proprietary solution on a free OS than relying on proprietary software that rely on proprietary OS. That’s why I signed this (probably useless) petition.