@MarcMasVi 2/2: Instead of Chromium, for a backup browser (when Firefox can't connect to some site), I use Ungoogled Chromium, for the same reason I use Betterbird rather than Thunderbird. Google knows too much about us already.

Also, just as a general comment, please don't assume everyone prefers using the keyboard rather than the mouse. Keyboard shortcuts are useful to people with very good memories, that can remember all those arcane keystrokes in the various applications they use. But for those of us that have "senior moments" or who can't remember what we had for breakfast yesterday, a mouse-driven GUI is far more intuitive and easier to use, no matter how much the Linux gurus think that everyone should throw their mouse away and use keyboard shortcuts only (that would make computers unusable for someone like me, and I say that as someone who started out using a TRS-80 with no mouse at all, back when I could still remember things!). Other than that, great article!

@MarcMasVi As a former Vienna user on the Mac, for RSS feed reading I finally wound up using FreshRSS, which you read in a browser window. You can set up your own server (can be on the same machine) or you can use one of the public ones, but basically you crease an account and then tell is which feeds you wish to follow. Best thing is that once you set it up you can access it from any of your devices.

For mail I use BetterBird, which is like Thunderbird but with all the Googl telemetry removed. And if you have Gmail accounts and want to connect using SMTP and POP (I have my reasons), it actually works if you create an application-specific login in Google accounts, which is more than can be said for Apple Mail.

I really don't use Mastodon much anymore, simply because of the issue with losing your place in the timeline. I mostly use BlueSky now.

For terminal I use Ptyxis, it is the easiest for non-programmers who simply need a way to connect to other systems, and it has profiles. 1/2