15 years Windows -> dualboot everything -> Ubuntu -> Fedora -> Ubuntu -> opensuse -> arch -> popOS -> arch -> fedora -> arch -> -> popOS -> arch -> nixos

I’m sure there’s a ton more hopping around in the middle that I can’t remember, but this is a good summary.

Hyprland is my favorite tilling manager for Wayland. Its really easy to customize or find dotfiles. I have some if you want them.

If you want something that just works, popos-shell gnome plugin

Use no@thankyou.com as the email anything as the password and it’ll let you setup a local account.

I use both. I have a self hosted docker compose instance of mailcow, which alerts me when an update is available.

I also use protonmail as well.

Self hosting was a pain in the ass to get working, but I’ve had no issues with it once up. I tossed it behind a reverse proxy to keep it from directly touching the internet.

Fedoras flavor with KDE. Fedora never caused an issue for me.

Not sure the popularity, but here’s what are essential to me:

AnySoftKeyboard - a custom keyboard that supports layouts like workman/colemak

Simple Gallery - Fantastic gallery app

Mule - Secure version of Firefox

OneTracker - simple bullshit free parcel tracker

Xplore - dual pane file manager, been using it for over 10 years. Can’t go back to regular ones

Yubico Authenticator - Used to get OTPs off my Yubikey.

I have more essential apps, but they’d fall close or in popular.

Sway or GNOME (Wayland) with Pop shell extension.

While EVs are fantastic, and a needed step in the right direction. Having a good public transit system, and walkable/bikable cities and towns will do far more to help the environment.