Pika Backup does backups. For testing Windows, you’ll want to run a VM, QEMU is best for that (There’s a KDE wrapper I forget the name of for it with a better GUI) but you can probably do some level of testing running your app with Wine. You can run Excel with Wine (also the Office365 web Excel runs in browser)

Wow, you’re deep!

As a worker with real skills, I stand by my judgement of you leeches.

$190/month tax deducted is NOTHING for a firm making $30k/role filled at the bottom end. You don’t really care about those kinds of low-level tax deductible expenses while you’re profitable. This is why no businesses switch to LibreOffice on cost grounds, even though it’s fine and saves hundreds per year per seat on a contract for Office.

It will never be a thing. The capitalists would never allow it. Also HR professionals are like, the lowest level of teeeechnically undergrad-level educated communications majors. They’re not going to fuck with some activitypub shit. These people are barely smart enough to not drown in the rain.

True, sacrifices on the altar of the God Sysadmin, and their divine mount Er’orreport

I started nearly 30 years ago and cannot count the dead systems I have left in my wake. Just on the 2000-ish thing where Dell first offered Linux but it was inherently unstable after booting the pre-written disk image if you touched it, alone… So many kernel sanity failures…

Probably Linux Mint. If you have a hardware support issue on Mint, Fedora.

As a n00b I’d go Mint, unless you have hardware concerns in which case Fedora is the only option these days (Ubuntu is bad now). I have used Linux since 1996 and would not dualboot in 2025. Microsoft will fuck your shit. Just roll with two boxes.

Tor “installed” via non-flatpak updates via the same manual mechanism, so it’s no worse than the non-flatpak. The flatpak is just the installer. Also, the point of tor is not to avoid fingerprinting, it’s to blend in. You are no more tracked by Reddit than you would be with up to date tor. A publicly traded company is not going to actively try to exploit your browser with a hack to fingerprint you extra via an exploit. You should never use tor for 1-1 you things comingled with anything you don’t want associated with you. That’s why there’s an easy to use new identity button. Tor is not magic, its on YOU to engage in best practices or not.

Just wait or switch distros. All the security updates they hold hostage for money come eventually. If you’re not a bank or wanted by a major world power, I doubt anyone is going pwn you with a security fix Ubuntu is slow walking to force people into pro. Since they started that shit I don’t put Ubuntu on new hardware, but I’m not going to purge servers I have it on because I’m worried someone’s going to deploy a sub-month old vulnerability against me as a rando doing nothing important.