You should have stopped using windows years ago. There is no excuse, especially thanks to Valve for their work enhancing wine ecosystem and making your games work.
While Proton is great, it helps no one to suggest it's a solution to making all games work. There are absolutely enormous multiplayer titles still unavailable on Proton, if you can't play the games your friends play who cares if 99% of the rest of the Steam library works?
Again, I think Proton is great, and only getting better. It is not though a drop in replacement for a Windows gaming machine, for most people, yet.
I think it was their quiet way of saying they couldn't meet the standard they set, at least, not yet.
Also games that have issues with patented codecs, although valve is working around that by transcoding them to a different format, so they can play locally without the relevant decodre
I just couldn't beat the m1 Air for price/performance last year.
That said, I didn't realize until just now it could have been due to being on such an older Linux Mint, so maybe I'm just way out of date.
There is an entire section on handles you can tweak in different environments odds are you need few of them save for the above as things are increasingly automatic. For example GDK_SCALE is enough for firefox to look correct without also fiddling with anything internal to firefox.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI
Essentially hidpi on Linux is spending 5 minutes reading a wiki then enumerable hours using the system.
https://linux-hardware.org/?view=mon_resolution
You should absolutely volunteer your time to address high dpi configuration out of the box across several of the most popular distros. I mean for example KDE software already works basically perfectly right out of the box. So all you really need to do is automate the process of choosing ideal font sizes, scaling settings etc.
Push out looks-right.sh to various distros to be run at installation.
Being the computer scrap man I am and using nothing but hand-me-downs and things I find people throwing out. It has worked out well for me from a compatibility point of view. ;)
I let my keys sync to my MS account. I mainly want to protect against untargeted theft of my computer, so having recovery keys online makes more sense than a recovery key printout or USB key in a drawer.
Also trust people, systems and corporations less.
Why does your trust model include "running a proprietary OS that can do anything at any time" but not "the OS explicitly requires a user account tied to an online account?" That doesn't make any sense.
To be clear: there are plenty of great reasons to dislike this change. But they all fall under "user-hostile" or "creeping surveillance capitalism," not "shady conspiracy to steal your encryption keys." They can already have the keys if they want them, and there's nothing you can do about it as-is.
However the this isn’t about me. This is providing advice in such a way that the casual windows user might see the threat to their keys.
The only reason they were allowed to rollout BitLocker was if they stole the keys. Funny that encryption only became a “problem” in the age of the iPhone.
Pixelmator on macOS is a good Photoshop replacement.
I got nothing for Lightroom or heavier uses of AE. Or Excel.
Source: portrait photographer for 20+ years that would ditch Adobe in a heartbeat if it were possible.
Reaper and Nuendo aren't really comparable either. Nuendo just has so much engineering behind it for audio post and multichannel (e.g. Atmos) not to mention expression maps and excellent MIDI editing. I do admit Reaper, if it runs on linuxulator, could work quite well as a prototyping tool on the go. Then again Cubasis and Dorico iPad does it too and can import straight to the Desktop versions.
I do wish there were good open source options but, alas. Maybe some day...
For Illustrator, use CC 2019 to get hi-def display support in the GUI. I don’t use Illustrator much though, so I can’t vouch for how well it works.