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  • Things I need from the Play Store are:

    • Banking App
    • Banking TAN App
      I downloaded them using the Aurora store and although they complain about missing play services on every startup, they work without them.

    Things I don’t need, but use (installed in the same way and run without play services):

    • App from my country’s train service
    • App from my carsharing service
    • Netflix
    • Spotify
      I could run those in a browser, but I don’t see what the big difference would be. They run without play services.

    So luckily, in Germany, you can live without Google. Nothing actually requires it.








  • Yes, IMO. If you haven’t bought the hardware yet, there’s no reason to subject yourself to the headache of lacking Linux support, and instead support companies that value open source.
    AMD and Intel GPU’s simply work out of the box with all features.

    And it’s not like on a laptop you need the highest of high end graphics acceleration anyway.







  • My Ubuntu broke literally every time I did a version upgrade. It’s probably better now, but I’m not going back.
    The last system that straight up broke for me was a default installation of Debian Stable, and that wasn’t long ago.

    I understand Arch isn’t easy to use or maintain.
    But in my opinion, if you use something wrong and it breaks, that doesn’t mean it’s unstable. And if you update Arch by simply hitting “pacman -Syu” every day, you’re doing it wrong.