Bro you've already been told on at least one other programmer humor community to stop shilling your mediocre Long Dark rip-off here. Take this to game dev or indie studio / creator communities

I use Conduit for myself and a couple friends to chat while gaming. It was a bit finicky to setup with the TURN server, but once it was running it's been great. Even has sliding sync for Element X. Only thing I'm still struggling with is setting up Webhook notifications.

Not to be overlooked! This is by far the quickest and easiest way to be as hands-off as possible

First things first, pull up Trash Guides and set up the *Arr stack -- Sonarr for shows, Radarr for movies, Bazarr for subs, and Prowlarr for indexers/trackers. Then setup transmission+OpenVPN or something similar to torrent behind a VPN. Finally, hook up Jellyfin so you can serve the media.

As somebody who rarely PC games at the moment, I feel it's pretty bloated for what it is. But my Nvidia GPU worked out of the box so

Currently running Garuda for gaming and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for everything else. Very much look forward to combining them in my own Arch/Void install when I get my new laptop.

Can I ask why you're switching?

Scored the Ratchet & Clank Collection for PS3 on Ebay this week, cannot wait to play

I believe Proton Pass and Proton VPN are both on F-Droid

Do you know of any that fit the NVME top HAT? This was the only one I could find where I was sure it would fit.

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Honestly, I think you summed up the biggest issues. As much as I look forward to getting a Pixel for my next phone solely for GrapheneOS, it's understandable for people looking to degoogle to not want to buy a Google phone. The developer I think is the bigger issue. Despite having since stepped down, his behavior went unchecked for long enough to make quite a bad reputation and leave a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths. While recovering from that will simply take time, I have wondered why they haven't taken the opportunity to come out with a Graphene-lite for non-Pixels. Something like CarbonOS as secure as possible sans Google hardware. Could easily overtake Calyx/Lineage.