Based on the description elsewhere in the comments, they don’t sound very similar. ProtonPlus is just a download tool that lets you see and download or delete updates for all the various versions of Proton, so you don’t have to visit a bunch of different Githubs. It doesn’t let you see or change which version each game is using, which it sounds like ProtonUp does.

I like Kiss.

They’re still used by businesses a lot.

This is what I did. I narrowed down the distros I was looking at to about 5 that I thought might meet my needs, and made a live usb for each one, then used it as I would my regular system for a couple days. Anything that didn’t work right got eliminated, and I picked the one I liked best out of the ones where everything worked.

If he’s keeping Windows to begin with, then logically he may still update it. It’s helpful to know that it might mess up his Linux installation.

True, but I still prefer this to Windows.

Sub Rosa is good, although not free. I stopped using Proton because it’s so difficult to download emails. I use my ISP now.

Installing an iso from a usb drive and installing an iso after mounting it as a virtual drive seem like they involve roughly the same level of technical skill to me. Booting from cd or usb was a routine school or business activity for decades. Mounting an iso as a drive has been built into Windows for a much shorter period of time. The last time I used Windows, you needed third party software for that. I would bet on a random person off the street to be able to do the first one more reliably than the second. But, more installation options are always better.

So, it’s a GrapheneOS-developed competitor meant to address F-droid’s perceived limitations?

Running up-to-date software gives me far less problems than running software full of bugs that were fixed 5 years ago, personally. If you find a new bug, you can at least report it and hope to see it fixed in the next update. You find bugs that were fixed years ago, but the fixed version isn’t in your repo, and then you have to start building things yourself.

I have no reason to believe the average person can’t manage a usb stick. They’re a common way for photos, videos, and records to be sent from one business office to another. I’ve never worked with anyone who had any particular difficulty using them, and my coworkers weren’t all especially intelligent or interested in computers.

It can also be run as a standalone background service, so you don’t have to have a browser window open all the time. I’ve run one for years. Super easy.

I liked Parrot a lot when I tried it. Very easy to use.

I’ve never heard of Accrescent. How is it better than F-droid?

That seems so insecure. I wish governments cared more about the effects of data theft on individuals.

IMO, I would rate them: ME1 Andromeda ME2 ME3

The original Mass Effect was great, a classic, but 2 and 3 had less and less of what I’d loved about the first game. By the time I got to 3, I was playing because I felt invested in the story and characters, not because I found the gameplay enjoyable. Andromeda wasn’t quite as enjoyable as ME1 to me, mostly because I didn’t connect with the characters as much, but the story was surprising and original, fights were exciting, and the gameplay had a lot of interesting new elements that made the scenario feel immersive. It’s really too bad that so many people didn’t like it.

The beginning of the game is really bleak, but it makes the scenario of trying to colonize a lifeless planet feel all the more real IMO. After you meet aliens and start terraforming planets, it starts to be more what people wanted out of it, I think.

Good to know. I think I maybe logged into webmail once, years ago, but I don’t care about any of the info listed here.

I like Sakura. It’s lightweight.

7b is the smallest I’ve found useful. I’d try a smaller quant before going lower, if I had super small vram.