Degoogled version is €50 more, for whatever reason

My knowledge here is limited so I apologise if I’m not being helpful, but at least in case of Arch there’s a special kernel flag (amdgpu.performancemask iirc) to allow OC of your graphics card, are you passing one in your setup?

Have you tried using CoreCtrl instead?

“Optical Media Bad”

I get the “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” message on Proton

OnlyOffice exists on Flatpak too

Sadly the only decent alternative is slowly going downhill

It’s on the “extra” repo

Recent Python 3.13 update broke the ProtonVPN client

Foobar unfortunately is closed source, which OP has mentioned as a requirement.

But agreed, it’s so good I use it on Linux through wine, despite many alternatives

Yes

Which variant of it, if I may?

Banking has luckily not affected me after degoogling, however Revolut (which I’ve used maybe once a year) is a notable exception where I can’t get it to work

Taxi - Bolt works, just make sure you have microG correctly set up

Phone - avoid Exynos/Mediatek devices as those are less likely to work correctly once degoogled or you change it’s ROM. I used to have an Xperia 5 III with LineageOS on it, everything worked on it including VoLTE and Sony’s stock camera apps.

I’m surprised how much data software running in user-space (at least on Windows) can query

I really hope Proton 10 will have some sort of Wayland support, even if it would be hidden behind an environmental variable

I mean there is an overlap between Linux users and those who play card games

Decked out? Cranked?

Oh I have noticed the timezone change, some websites were misbehaving because of it

To my knowledge Librewolf spoofs useragent to Windows by default

KDE Plasma Wayland, I’m using it for gaming mainly and occasionally for VR.

Pros:

• supports DRM leasing mandatory for wired VR headsets
• supports tearing (also in windowed apps but requires an additional setting) which reduces input latency in games
• usually all the new fancy features, ex. HDR, appear quickly
• decent support for fractional scaling (handy on laptops)

Cons:

• you might encounter bugs. While Plasma 6 has been a much better experience as opposed to older versions of it, there are still some bugs here and there appearing between the updates. As of this writing thought I can’t recall any bugs on my system.