Stock Android pushes a Google account really hard, but you can technically avoid it. You won't be able to download any apps from the Playstore until you sign into a Google account, BUT you can download F-Droid from a web browser, and from F-Droid you can download Aroura Store, and get all of your Playstore apps from there.
Or you can just use a degoogled ROM instead, which makes it a lot easier to avoid the Google account by default.
Oculus does not work, but that's expected for a Facebook product... Valve Index and HTC Vive work pretty good. I've personally played 5-10 VR games on linux with an Index I borrowed from a friend
There's no one-liner that will make the importance of privacy "click" for most people, since it requires a bit of abstract thought, but this site is the closest I've seen to it: https://www.socialcooling.com
I think from the perspective of the employee's reputation, it's an important distinction, due to the "with cause" vs. "without cause" implication.
When I hear "laid off" I think the person was probably a fine employee who they just couldn't keep around because higher-ups wanted more money. But when I hear "fired" I think "well did they take a shit on their boss's desk or something?"
"Every message and file gets sent separately to every member in the group"
That seems fine for small groups, but for the typical Element crowd of large groups, I don't think that would go over well. If you send a 10MB file in a 2000-person chat, you'd be uploading 20GB of data...
-SimpleX doesn't have a desktop GUI has issues with big groups (see comment below)
-Session has a 100-person group chat limit
-Syphon's own github states they are "still in alpha and we do not recommend using it where proven and independently verified security is required." Plus, they haven't had a release in over a year, so I'm not sure it's still maintained.
Element (or most Matrix clients) don't have any of those issues. Like I said, it's not perfect, but I see why it's recommended. All decent alternatives have significant downsides
Element isn't perfect, but what's a better alternative? A giant Signal group would be a horrible idea, since everyone's phone numbers would be exposed to the other members (plus there's a 150 group member limit), and Discord is obviously much worse than Element (from a privacy perspective).
Through proton, yes. The game has always worked with anti-cheat disabled (so no PvP multiplayer), but proton-compatible anti-cheat has been supported since early April, so all multiplayer functionality has worked since then.
This article is referring to a recent MCC patch that broke proton anti-cheat for about a week, thankfully it's fixed now.
I remember reading that the higher grain content in dry food actually causes more dental bacterial growth, but I could be wrong. Our current plan is to regularly use dental treats to solve any dental health issues
Well Respawn explicitly enabling Easy Anti-Cheat's Proton support (plus the game being Steam Deck Verified) is about as official as we're gonna get for the vast majority of multiplayer games. I think it's more of an issue around EA firing 99% of their QA testers...
I was one of the linux players who was banned. It took them about 8 days for them to unban me in-game, and then it took another week for my EA ban history to change from "active" to "overturned," with an email from EA. No apology, no sort of in-game compensation, just basically a "be thankful you can play again."
~25% of the linux players are still banned. Some definitely cheated, some I would be shocked if they cheated, just considering the amount of hours and money they had put into their account, along with how enthusiastic they were about getting themselves (and others) unbanned. So shocked that I'm almost certain they're false positives. Which makes me hesitant to keep playing - what if that happens to me? If they treat their Steam Deck and linux users this way, is that a game I really want to support?
During setup, Calyx shows a list of the apps installed by default, and allows you to uncheck most of them. I personally didn't feel like it was much bloat at all, but I did uncheck a good bit of the apps. If you went through the setup process with all default settings though, I can definitely see why you'd think that
I used LineageOS for years on my OnePlus 3, and once that stopped getting updates, I snagged a Pixel 5a and immediately put CalyxOS on it. Both have been great experiences.
RuneLite is linux native though. If you want something specifically through Wine, others have said Guild Wars 2 and FFXIV, but I've also heard good stuff about STAR WARS: The Old Republic. And if you're okay with something a little more obscure/"out there", Shakes and Fidget has great reviews (it's a satire on MMORPGs).
Stock Android pushes a Google account really hard, but you can technically avoid it. You won't be able to download any apps from the Playstore until you sign into a Google account, BUT you can download F-Droid from a web browser, and from F-Droid you can download Aroura Store, and get all of your Playstore apps from there.
Or you can just use a degoogled ROM instead, which makes it a lot easier to avoid the Google account by default.