KDE Connect: https://kdeconnect.kde.org/

I also use Resilio Sync. It’s not open source software, but it’s self-hosted https://www.resilio.com/

There are also open source sync services, like nextcloud or syncthing

Well, this is my first time hearing Betterbird

After reading their feature table https://www.betterbird.eu/#featuretable I think they have a really laudable goal.

I’d suggest to check the feature table first. If there is anything you concern, you pick Betterbird. Otherwise, you can choose one randomly :)

This is annoying, while there are a few things we can do

1. Report this issue at https://webcompat.com/
2. Change UA to trick this website https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/user-agent-string-switcher/
3. Best choice, change another store :)

Some performance-extensive games may also work better on PS5. As OP doesn’t plan to build a gaming PC, I think a PS5 could improve the experience of lots of new games.

“just browse the internet” doesn’t indicate that you don’t need a powerful computer in 2023. Modern browsers are really heavy - and rendering websites are much more complex now.

Unless you’re really frugal about your PC budget, I think it’s definitely “to-go” for 32G

I’m also mounting them into /home/user/data while I don’t think hard-coding the user name in the mountpoint is a good idea. Besides, it needs the assumption that I’m the only “human-user” of this computer.

I may also mount them at /opt/data, but I’m not sure if it’s a good idea

I had been using WSL2 for about one year. The experience was terrible compared to a Linux host. (Sadly I can’t change the system on my work laptop). However, it was much better than Cygwin, msys2 and powershell - based on my experience.

If your host OS is windows and you’re interested in Linux, I think WSL2 is a good way to have a try

• Find an open-source software that you’re interested in, but your main distro doesn’t provide it in the official repo. Be a packager for this software.
• Open your distro’s wiki, rewrite (or contribute, if already good enough) a page or section.
• Try the bleeding-edge version (or very-early testing) of your favourite distro, and submit some test results, regarding to your hardware.

IMHO these tasks are interesting, could learn a lot from these tasks, and other linux users could benefit from these work

I also am wondering if it’s worth renewing my plus essential

I think it’s worth for paying plus essential. There might be a black Friday promo for ps plus too. I’d suggest turn off auto renew, and wait for a few days

How about creating an app password? It may let you by-pass the 2FA https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en#

My solution is not ideal:

I created a directory, called ~/config_sync. I create sym links for config files, like ~/.bashtc to ~/config_sync/bashrc

However, I need to record the sym links I’ve created, and repeat this process on new machines

Valve has been using MoltenVK to run Dota2 on Mac1. I’m a bit worried that if Valve would cut the funding on MoltenVK2. Furthermore, CS:GO had been an example of a cross-platform example for multiple-player game. Valve’s games may still support Linux/SteamOS, but what if other developers only release their games as win-only in future?

I wonder why DOTA2 was not mentioned… It has a really decent Linux support for more than a decade

I think Fedora finds a good balance that

1. All components are OSS by default
2. It’s super easy to install RPMFusion packages when needed

Can you share the details of your procedure? Besides, which distro you’re using?

I think the biggest challenge is anti-cheat. I don’t know if there is any solution instead of waiting for native release (like Dota2 and CSGO). Also, although I don’t like Microsoft GamePass, lacking the support of it means we may need to pay extra to try various games.

I think Wine/Proton works really great nowadays (well I’ve repeated it at different places). As 2023-07-28, ProtonDB shows that in the top 1000 games, 75% are rated gold or better.

When it comes to distro, I think most popular ones are good enough if they meet to conditions (1) packages are not too out-dated (2) Not difficult to install some non-free dependencies (like rpmfusion)

I’m using Thunderbird for my outlook.office365.com email account which is managed by employer. It works perfect.

1. Set server name to outlook.office365.com and Authentication method to OAuth2
2. Thunderbird will give you a pop-up window, which let you fill in the username and password
3. My account requires DUO, and it worked smoothly too.

However, it’s also possible that your administrator has different server settings, denying the access of Thunderbird.

TLDR, I think it worth a try

It’s sad that these games are not covered by PS+ deluxe. $120 sounds a bit expensive to me, but it depends on eager you want to play these old games.

Quick calculation: Assuming you have 5 games to play on PS3, you spend $120 for the console and $200 for the pre-owned discs, you’re spending $62 on average, which is almost the full price of a new release game. If you think these games are interesting enough, then this is a to-go decision.

As many people has pointed out, it’s always worth to try the simulator on PC first

As you stated, there are countless of great games you haven’t played. I think it is worth $100 unless you plan to buy a PS5/Xbox very soon.

You can try to find cheap pre-owned PS4 discs. Besides, you’d better have a look at PS Plus Extra Game list. Spending the price of 1.5 games, and you can enjoy 15+ games within one year.

For me I would not upgrade the monitor now. Only PS4 Pro support 4K gaming (for some games), I’d save the bucks for monitor upgrade in future.

I’ve not tried myself but the interface seems decent and I’ve not seen anyone complain about it being annoying.

Thank you! That’s a relief for me to when considering PS5 version.