Reminder that paying money is morally wrong and should be avoided when possible. Steal the consoles and pirate if you have to play the games.

There’re multiple things OpenSUSE does differently, when compared to most other distros:

• they enable firewall by default.
• they have automatic testing pipeline, that catches most broken, not-working applications before they’re made available to public.
• if update breaks your setup - you can rollback to previous snapshot in minutes.
• supports both apparmor and selinux.

I’m using metager.org, because I won’t trust a closed-source service like DDG or profit-driven company like Brave to not censor their search results.

Joplin (FOSS and probably general go-to for cross-platform open source notes in general but is a bit of a memory hog)

This comment describes my frustration with modern software.
How could a note taking app be a memory hog? You could type out a whole War and Piece and it shouldn’t take more than couple megabytes to store it.

Firefox supports bangs natively, you can also change or add your own shortcuts.

I would remove Qwant from this list, because they share your data with Bing, their privacy policy have contradicting statements and include:

Qwant may transfer to this partner the following pseudonymous data related to your query:
– The keywords of the search;
– Information about the browser you are using (the User Agent);
– The first three bytes of your IP address;
– The approximate geographical area from which the search originated, at the level of a region or city;
– The salt hash generated from your IP address, your User Agent and a salt that changes at the latest every 3 months;
– A random token generated by Qwant.

…Qwant may also collect and transfer to this partner your full IP address.
This processing is in the legitimate interest of Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited (article 6.1.f) to secure and make its services more reliable.

This data is transferred to this partner within the European Union, and may be retained in accordance with Bing’s Privacy Policy for a maximum period of 18 months.

Please, also review this if you plan to use qwant:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwant#Controversies