I like that the originating countries are listed. Some services are very hard switches like Discord, or everything MS offers, but I want to rely less on US products. That's a start for some things but do take the other bits of feedback.

I use several services on this list and I'm curious about everyone's opinions on multi-service providers and whether it's a good idea to go with all-in-one or purchase services separately. I have a paid Proton account and use the mail and vpn, but kept 1password and dropbox accounts as well since they were already set up. It's tempting to have everything integrated and pay one bill, but it feels risky to put all my digital eggs in one tech company basket.

What do you think?

I think CachyOS should be listed in the OS category (could even be part of the gaming sub category).

What's wrong with Thunderbird email? Since Firefox is there, you'd assume Thunderbird would make it too, no?

Im trying to like Sync but I don't think it's very good. It's slow and the UI is so clunky. Also no desktop app for Linux.

This is the list with my annotations. A lit of things missing there where there are good alternatives, but it's a good start.

No Nextcloud? No KeePassXC? No Startpage? Rubbish

Web:

• add LibreFox because it's the most paranoid out of the box, and it's good

Email:

• Fastmail should be removed. They have the best UI ever, but their servers are still in the USA and they don't have any E2E encryption
• I don't see Posteo here: https://purchasewithpurpose.io/category/email/, it should be added (if that's you)

Passwords:

• 1password had a few controversies in the past, I would never use it

Search:

• Qwant sucks, that's all, they have sucked since the beginning
• add Searx https://metasearx.com/ which could be good for some people

Music:

• Deezer hates VPN, I don't know how you could show that but it drove me away

I self-host Bitwarden and it's been great. Used 1Password back in the day but their shift to SaaS has made it expensive and bloated with a bunch of crap I don't care about. Made sure to set up a backup of the BW databases and auto-updating the docker image that it runs in. Set up secure access for my family, and even managed to host it for a couple friends.

Keepass has always interested me, but I haven't been able to figure out if there's a browser extension that supports accessing databases stored remotely as I use my passwords on a few computers I can't install applications on, but I can use extensions.

Alright comments, let’s hear it. Why do all these tools suck? Why are they the wrong thing?

I'm still looking for a Microslop Teams and Office replacement. It needs to be usable in a business context. I had a look at Nextcloud Talk for the Teams part but it looked like an absolute nightmare to set up.

I would love to find a low-effort meme and “fun” pics stream like Imgur. Pixelfed is too serious photographer, and while lemmy has plenty of meme pictures, the UI makes it awkward to just scroll at breakfast and send something funny to fam. Just a wall of images and short videos, and no comments unless you click them.

Anyone aware of any issues with Filen? I’m interested in giving it a shot.

Can you please share how you created the guide? I would like to make one myself.

Is Orion legit for Apple users? https://orionbrowser.com/

Funny how reddit isn't on the list (or maybe I'm blind), but I guess it doesn't really have to be since we're already here anyway.

Vivaldi is Norwegian, not EU.

It's unfortunate but I'd recommend removing Firefox, Protonmail, Duckduckgo.

• Librewolf is better, SearXNG is more trustworthy than DDG.

I personally wouldn't recommend ZorinOS, Ubuntu, and Pop!OS.

• Linux Mint is a solid recommendation.
• EndeavourOS is also pretty good.
• Arch Linux (base) is getting really good due to improvements to archinstall.