As someone that was on a straight Arch install for years I’ve come to appreciate Manjaro + their holding back of non-critical updates for a couple weeks for additional testing. Between that and sticking to LTS kernel versions I’ve run into way fewer issues (not that being on the bleeding edge for updates was that bad, but problems certainly came up occasionally).

Agreed, Proton and other alternatives work great!

Yup, if you just use a couple different IPs in a given time they will arbitrarily mark you as requiring a license.

I think you need to add like so:

• Search engine name: Startpage
• Search string to use: https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=%s

Even though it failed a lot of the features it introduced like collaborative work were carried over to their GSuite/Workspace apps later.

I replaced my aging NUC with a Minisforum SFF box and am also very happy with it. Footprint is slightly larger, but actually find it much quieter. The NUC was basically silent 90% of the time too, but it had an annoying high pitched whine if you were doing something very CPU-intensive.

Depending on model they can support up to 2 m.2s and a 2.5" drive.

Yup, you can block instances, communities, and by keyword like you mentioned.

Switched to Manjaro after running vanilla Arch for several years and haven’t looked back. I appreciate the slightly less bleeding edge updates and extra added stability around it.

Easy installs are probably less of a big deal nowadays after Arch overhauled their installation process.

KDE Plasma on desktop

Cinnamon on (older lower spec) laptop

Performance upgrades would be great but am I the only one that routinely has issues with lag in received messages? Teams app works fine on mobile, but I routinely have issues with the desktop app where it doesn’t show notifications for new messages for minutes at a time then I get a huge batch update all at once. Extremely annoying if you’re relying on it for anything time sensitive.

I use Duplicati and backup server to both another PC and the cloud. Unlike a lot of data hoarders I take a pretty minimalist approach to only backing up core (mostly docker) configs and OS installation.

I have media lists but to me all that content is ephemeral and easily re-acquired so I don’t include it.

That’s a little harsh but I definitely agree it doesn’t tend to offer a better or equal alternative to any free options available. You’re giving up a certain level of ease of use.