I jumped into the world of Linux around 2005. I get my laptops from System76.com. I'm happy with the Pop!_OS for my operating system software. Before that, I used Ubuntu from South Africa founder Mark Shuttleworth. This lists changes often ...
My Go To Applications
- NextCloud. Notes and Tasks. Markdown or Text
- Internxt cloud/desktop backup. EE2E
- Standard Notes. EE2E secure notes
- ExpressVPN. The best I've used
- VS Codium. A great Markdown editor
- Proton Mail. Fantastic secure. Labels!
- Proton Pass. Password manager
- Proton Drive. EE2E file storage
- Proton VPN. Simple but strong VPN
- Proton Lumo AI. Strong text-based AI. Exceptionally low hallucination
- Yubico Keys Strong security, complicated.
- uGet. downloader
- Flameshot screen shots
- Vivaldi browser
- Mastodon Fediverse . My particular instance -- or online community -- is Fosstodon.