honestly mint really a very easy distro, I enjoyed using it too. Fedora and other distros also seem pretty cool

Linux Mint is a nice and easy distro that is quite good :D

SearXNG is the best of ALL worlds. You can get results from every search engines, there’s no ads, and it’s self-hostable

honestly inkscape is great :D I switched from illustrator after my adobe creative cloud subscription expired, and it’s been an easy transition!

I’ve also figured out that you can save the current theme as a cookie so it’ll stay the same even when you reload the page!

will need to make the high contrast theme look a bit nicer though, but it WORKS

IT WORKS

I don’t use just one, I just swap between different providers every few years. It’s only slightly annoying to switch for all my accounts. From gmail, I’ve tried Proton, Tuta, and now “Disroot”. I’ve also set my brother up with mailfence and it seems very good

For me at least, searxng.world works. I just went to searx.space, opened loads of them in a list, and left the ones that weren’t blocked in my country. (the only ones left were searxng.world and two really specific local ones with alphabet soup names)

Materialious has DeArrow, but apparently only the desktop and Android clients work. The web client is blocked by YT unfortunately :(

I like SearXNG, you get all of all worlds

it’s identical to vscode, except that a few extensions don’t work (notably, intellicode and the ms c/c++ extensions)

I like VSCodium, a vscode build without ms telemetry and such

oh that’s sad. I mostly switched out of proton bc I didn’t want to put all my eggs in one basket. Also, not having IMAP sucksss because both the official proton and tuta apps are SLOW

also, check out some of the firefox forks. I personally really like Floorp since it lets me put the tab bar at the bottom and customise the UI! Librewolf is also decent but some of its privacy anti-fingerprinting stuff makes it a bit annoying to use

onlyoffice is also a pretty good option for ms office compatibility

i think he wants a rec for a linux distro

gmail -> proton or tuta if you don’t care about IMAP, or any other decent email provider (I use disroot, I set my brother up with mailfence, they both seem quite good. I use them with thunderbird) pycharm -> not an IDE, but I like VSCodium (vscode without MS)

fluent reader is good!

yk, fair enough. if you like it, that’s fine by me