You seem to be aware of many things.

Just for communication you are using more unfree tools then free and more then in the other categories.

A question with no right answer, because it is a matter of taste and habits.

Both are very much sophisticated desktop environments which very useful defaults. Neither Gnome nor Plasma are too complicated for beginners and can be customized easily. If you want to you can go very deep into the customization too.

If you just want to save the text to read later, go with HTML.

If you want to archive it with graphical elements and embedded images, PDF is the better choice.

What I find kind of strange is that they have used Gmail before. Feels not to be the best decision for a VPN service which offers anonymous access.

Even better that they have switched now.

Reminds me on https://userinyerface.com/

Isn't it technically impossible to use unlimited space?

That after getting used to Linux I will hate to be forced to use less free operating systems.

That girls wear pink and boys wear blue.

Using NixOS as my daily OS on a X1 since six years now.

The first months have been hard as at this time was no installer at all and I had to do everything manually. After a while I got used to the update process.

Recently I switched to Nix Flakes which is another challenge but seems to make the Nix way even more consequent.

The only odd thing what drives me nerves is that compiling on that machine takes sometimes a half day.

Besides this it is still the best OS I ever used

Haley Reinhart

So let's donate to free apps as well to support the development.

Home manager on NixOS and stored all config files in a Git repo