gabmus

I read on the other thread that the software preventing you from using linux is a video conferencing app. If you could give us more details on what this application is maybe some of us might know a more precise way around the problem, but with so little info at least I am stumbling in the dark.

As for general purpose advice, many people already said what I would have: either use a VM (mind you if configured properly VMs can run quite fast) or use remote desktop and somehow pass your webcam/microphone to the remote pc (there are USB over IP solutions out there that basically allow you to pass a USB signal over the network, like this for example; I haven’t actually tried it myself but it does exist).

I don’t have huge personal experience with gateron, but yes they do have a good reputation and I think they might be another good option.

Honestly if your womier switches are as bad as mine, anything will be a huge improvement.

I have a Womier SK75, it came with mint blizzard switches I believe. Incredibly scratchy, absolutely unusable.

I swapped mine with Akko Rosewoods, they are so much better. I can recommend any Akko switch, depending on your preference, as they are generally pretty good and usually easily attainable (you can usually find them on amazon).

Another Akko switch I tried is the Botany: similar feel to the rosewood, a bit crispier and clackier compared to the almost soft feel of the Rosewoods.

Oh I definitely am out of touch, but I think I’ll live with that 😄

The application needs to speak a protocol to be able to use it. If you use a X wm your apps need to be able to talk X’s protocol to work, if you use a Wayland compositor your apps need to be able to talk Wayland’s protocol (or run on Xwayland, which is basically an X server that runs inside Wayland).

The wm/compositor abstractions only work if your apps know how to use them via the correct protocol

Sorry if it’s not a direct answer, but I can suggest you try inkscape instead. Of course it’s a much more powerful program, and that comes with it being possibly a bit harder to grasp and definitely different from publisher, but it should be very easy for a beginner to make a simple birthday card collage.

To be completely serious for a moment, conventional commit + what-bump is really useful for doing semver