Graphene is absolutely the best choice for that exact situation, please do look into it more. It is far ahead of anything else for enabling you to stay safe. You do still have to make sure to set it up correctly, which takes some careful reading, but the instructions are out there.
It’s not “again” for anything you’ve written in this comment thread.
And you specifically suggested that these numbers can’t be extrapolated, i.e. that they are not a trend. If it’s indeed a trend for Lemmy to have 200% yoy growth then yeah, I’d think that’d be pretty successful.
Successful or not, it isn’t back to baseline
Lemmy was at 15k MAU, went up to over 125k and now is 1/3 of that.
So it increased by 200%
Yeah depending on your hardware things like that can still happen sometimes. I don’t think it’s a lot more common than on other OSes. It’s especially not really usual for something as basic as network drivers to misbehave though, especially suddenly. For what it’s worth, my experience trying to use Zotero on Windows on both MS word and LibreOffice writer was also a glitchy mess. Anyway, hope you try it again another time when you are under a bit less pressure and it works out better for you then.