If you have any App you used before and isnt available on Linux: You can try to install the .exe-file with a Tool named “Bottles”.

Each Programm you run with that tool gets its own virtual Space, so if you mess something up, you can throw that one bottle away and just create another in its fresh New environment.

It has a clean UI and you can play with all kinds of different configs to get your Bottle to run. You can choose between different Windows Versions for example.

Under the hood it uses Wine and Proton.

Pro-Tip: Start Programms via the UI in “Terminal-Mode” so you can See potential Error-Messages which you would normally not see, if you just run the Programm.

Thanks for the lookup to that article! Very Informative and entertaining

Personally i would recommend ubuntu Server and host as much you can over Docker and docker-compose files (selfhost is sooooo easy since docker!).

Ubuntu-Server is light weight and uses an common package manager which is widely used. Also the system is matured and frequently updated.

You can install portainer on the Server and manage all your containers/services through an easy UI.

Also you could install Watchtower on it, so all your docker-containers will be updated automaticly.

Edit: If you are just unsure about the Distro of choice, here is an pretty nice Website to search for distros of any kind: https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?ostype=Linux&category=NAS&origin=All&basedon=All&notbasedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&language=All&defaultinit=All&status=Active#simpleresults

Yeah, but can you post events anonymous there? I tried it a couple of Years ago and i didnt See that Option. But maybe that changed since then.

Also it seems Less active for my country (germany). In my area there is a instance called https://bonn.jetzt/ which is quite active and is also posting on Mastodon.

In my experience shit just works in Linux. I own an 10+ year old external DVD-Drive and an newer external BD-Diskdrive. And both of em work flawless on Manjaro.

Edit: Just learned about the existence of lemmynsfw.com. At the moment not compareable but its growing fast.

Only the NSFW-Content.

I live in germany, and i am not afraid of my government. They have ups and downs but overall its okay, i would say.

I would leave if i were CONSTANTLY afraid.

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Not comparable with instagram yet, but its growing fast https://pixelfed.org/servers . And for my interests it is more Than enough. I am no poweruser and follow only a few people, but if i wanted so, i could browse for hours in my subscription-feed.

There is an opensource Alternative i like called huggingface : https://huggingface.co/chat/ https://github.com/huggingface . You can even try different models and languages.

Pixelfed (Instagram) and Mastodon (Twitter)

I think there is a Webinterface for Microsoft Teams.So you can replace the APP with it.