CrabAndBroom

As much as I don't like recommending people go to reddit, tbh r/panelshow and r/tv_bunny tend to cover most of it pretty well, and quickly too. TV Bunny has been a good source for old British sitcoms like Bottom and Blackadder as well.

I guess I can just buy a sticker and remap the AI key to do ctrl instead lol

There is still an older version of Scrivener available for free, from when they were beta testing it on Linux. It still worked well last time I checked. The Windows version also runs really well in WIne, although it takes a bit of setting up initially.

Yeah they make their own distro (Pop! OS) and all their laptops ship with Linux pre-installed so they're definitely a safe choice.

I've always had good luck with Lenovos as well. I've had an NVIDIA and an AMD one and they've both run really well with Linux.

Several of them are on the KDE store now too!

Fly-Pie is a good one! Also the same person makes modern versions of Burn My Windows, Desktop Cube and other such things.

There's also dotacat written in Rust for people who find lolcat too slow.

Personally I don't really hate Ubuntu, but I tend to find that everything it does, there's something else that does it slightly better.

For example, it's supposed to be a good 'beginner' distro or good for something that 'just works', but IMO things like Mint or Pop!OS do it a little better these days. Snap is supposed to be a nice simple way to manage packages without worrying about dependencies, but Flatpak does it better and so on.

So yeah I don't hate it, I just don't see any particular reason to really use it. Opinions may vary though of course.

TBH I dislike Appimage purely because I can't be bothered to go and check them all individually for new versions all the time, it feels like being on Windows again. I don't mind a little bloat for the sake of convenience. But that's just personal preference of course.

I think the A031 Tumbleweed logo is actually my favourite there. But the winner's not bad either.

Also, I'd say install Windows first, then Linux. Windows assumes it's the only OS in the universe and tends to steamroll over the whole boot setup, so I've found it much easier to just let Windows do whatever it wants first, then fix it with Linux afterwards.

Mullvad I think is very good for this. They have an extensive description of their no-logs policy on their site, and have also been raided by the police before, who apparently were unable to find any customer information.

Shenanigans are always possible of course so you shouldn't 100% blindly trust anyone, but all the available evidence seems to point to them being pretty legit IMO.