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The answer to this is usually to use an alternative. Reading the description and searching around a bit, isn't this essentially what OBS Studio does?

With Linux Mint it's so incredibly easy. Believe me.

Before migrating my desktop over (to arch btw) exactly a year ago I did a trial by fire during our end-of-summer get-away and installed Mint on a spare laptop with the aim of working one day remotely and also finishing a group project during a summer course which I had to do leading my team on teams (because lol universities).
The only thing that it failed on was getting the laptop's built in speaker audio working, which I've heard can happen with certain models. I just used a headset instead.
Oddly enough, I have three other similar laptops, running OpenSUSE and Fedora on them, and the audio works on them flawlessly.

You should try a live USB and/or a spare laptop to trial whatever distro people recommend. Distro hopping is child's play, once you figure out how to disable secure boot.

It's not that dire, unless you love seeding torrents and you encounter other peers that don't have port forwarding either, or you are hosting something.

I see nothing of sorts.

Instead what I see is this perpetuated crap about Proton being untrustworthy (they are not) and the CEO being a trump bootlicker (they are not). So this makes me think there's a dissuasion campaign going on.

Nothing against what you are writing and pointing to. But look at the grander picture.

1. The CEO makes a statement against big tech.
2. Proton has been a thorn in the eye of big tech by eating into their margins (they don't sell data and take customers away)
3. Proton regularly fights against handing over data and doesn't provide a back door to govt.

They don't play along. They disrupt the market and modus operandi of stronger entities. Of course there's going to be incitement against them.

The "That's it, I'm not going to use them anymore and you shouldn't either; here's an alternative" seemed to spawn from a much lesser "charge" than many of the other usual suspects. Like a knee jerk reaction.

Is Proton perfect? No. Are they doing what they claim to do? Yes. Is it good value for money? Debatable. But they are not what people claim them to be on these posts.

Disclaimer: I have a free tier proton account that I log in to once a year, because I've moved on to Disroot for my email and mullvad for VPN.

The highest compute cost.

Does no one read beyond the headline any more?

“10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.”

This statement quickly went viral, leading to further controversy when Proton’s official Reddit account reinforced Yen’s sentiment. The now-deleted post suggested that Republicans were more inclined to take on Big Tech monopolies than corporate-aligned Democrats. However, within hours, Proton removed all traces of these remarks from its social media platforms.

Despite claiming political neutrality, Proton later issued a statement reiterating its support for stronger antitrust measures, particularly against Big Tech. The company noted that regardless of broader political views on the Republican platform, the appointment of Gail Slater as head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division under Donald Trump was a positive step.

Proton further argued that major tech companies were attempting to align with Trump because his administration posed an “unprecedented challenge to their monopolistic dominance.” This statement only fueled concerns that Proton was leaning politically despite its claims of neutrality.

Looks to me like the CEO is not aligning with the orange, but rather with the choice of a department head, in particular one that's supposed to fight big tech monopolies at the DoJ. We have yet to see how effective this choice will be though, with all the ass kissers at the felon's dining table.

Source: your ass.

What pro trump statements?

The hedge being the US. May he find peace and security there. From whatever he imagines going down here.

Yet Another Electron Shit probably.

Even if I don't agree with their methodology, as they are a walking kagi advertisement, I still appreciate their comments for providing further insight. I've called them out on it before, but they keep going strong and the comments are often in depth and well researched regardless.

Think of them as a placeholder akin to forums.

That's how you get fraternicide.