I kinda use most of proton’s stuff. Also I’m not on the us so no idea what the second part means

Old school user here, back in 2005ish Ubuntu was straightforward, even had “wubi” to install it as a windows app, the site was friendly and easy to navigate (compared to Debian’s). Another big plus, they shipped the distro CDs for free worldwide, which was a big deal while I was stuck on a shitty ADSL connection that had constant drops.

Mint came a bit later and the big plus was OOTB codecs support. Back in the day that was one of the first walls most users came across, while Ubuntu pushed for a paid mp3 codec (fluendo?) Mint had most audio and video codecs working right after setup.

The UI wasn’t that different between the two, considering Ubuntu was running gnome2 (what mate immitates nowadays)

They do for some time now, at least on both workstation and silverblue you get prompted on the first boot and a reminder after a while on gnome-software

It’s on my to-research list. I heard some rumblings that tailscale might go IPO. Not that’s bad by itself but I have been burned by stuff like that leaving me stranded once they “pivot their operations to maximize investor satisfaction” (aka enshittification)

Thats what Felix said, im personally a fan of OrganicMaps

Articles too much time too, so I made you this

• Google bad, tracking sucks
• Android -> graphene
• Keep -> joplin
• Docs -> nextcloud
• Gmail -> proton
• GMaps -> car GPS
• Tailscale
• Selfhosted on SteamDeck

Best I can offer is a ruby icon

Jellyfin user here, glad I dodged the bullet when I had to pick between it and plex.

Tl;dr you want something like plex to:

• manage your media files for you
• get metadata for extra features (eg. show me similar movies, select an actor from the cast and see all your media with that actor, etc)
• track your watch progress
• play on several devices (tv, mobile, pcs consoles)
• transcode media to a compatible format for your client device
• share your media library with your family
• get notified of related media being released (new season of a show or new movie onba series)

And the biggest one for me

• tidy up ripped dvd/br movie collection, download missing CC or subtitles
• create a self-hosted alternative to shitty subscription services