darkfoe
Long-term Linux operations guy who somehow became a Golang developer.
I also run the lemmy.serverfail.party instance
Generally, if in the same country you’d have to comply. As another example though: If your server was in Canada, and some department in Alabama wanted your data, you could tell them to pound sand. Though they may put some sort of warrant out for you for failure to comply (doesn’t matter though if you never go there)
Been straight Linux since 2005ish. It’s definitely really improved just before COVID - things just work now without fiddling. In the past yeah, I had to fiddle quite a bit to make things work and write up some scripts for installs that would break next patch, but now I’m almost done a Witcher 3 play-through on Linux without even needing to adjust a thing.
Fired up a FreshRSS instance for myself when the reddit API notifications came about. Reminds me of my Google Reader days - quite happy with it thus far. Any of the decent quality news sites seem to have an RSS option, at least in my experience so far.
I’ve been happy with Bitwarden thus far. Used Lastpass back in the day, but migrated over when the renewal prices started creeping up.
- O365 usually works fine for the online portion on most browsers, so that should be okay for their use. And won’t require them to change habits in terms of how to use the software. (Bonus: cloud storage of their documents.) Only downside is they’ll likely need an active internet connection to do anything
- This one is tricky. I’ve had mixed experience getting newer Adobe products running in Wine, but it’s been awhile for me so I’d say try it yourself. There are probably a bunch of good FOSS/cloud options available nowadays too if annotating, commenting, etc that maybe others can elaborate more on
- Easy peasy, Brave does work well and should help them avoid malware on “those websites”
I’d say any LTS release you can get a working setup of Adobe in should be fine for them. 90% of what they’re going to do is probably via a browser so it’s OS-agnostic. I’m fond of Debian since it’s very stable, but it comes with the drawback of older packages as time goes on, though you can pull in repos for more recent stuff for most important things.
What do they plan to do with it? Just browse to gmail/facebook/etc? If so, really anything with a web browser that can stay up-to-date and they should be fine. LTS releases are good in that case.
If anything more than that, then might have to be a bit more selective with the distro.