Love PCSX2. I play a lot of old games as they have a charm to them and no micro transactions

Great choice, i prefer bottles over wine for that reason

Kde connect is great, iv always thought about using it but never got round to it as im current using a wm instead of a desktop environment. If i was to switch to a desktop environment kde would be my first choice as it has so many features.

I wish i knew about this during my degree

They have already been charging people for the game so if they become a free to play live service it feels like a bait and switch.

Firefox with extensions or mull

Edit: and why?

Firefox to use my synced bookmarks and share open tabs from pc.

Mull for better privacy (i personally like to disable javascript and change my DNS to quad9)

Booooooooooo

Yay, newpipe is one of my favoutite apps

Reader mode in browsers is great for this situation. Firefox has one for both desktop and mobile. I think brave does too

Going upstairs and forgetting what i went up for

Linux gaming PC, steam deck, SNES, ps2

Sweet, really cool that you decided to give linux shot. Its nice to see someone try it before dismissing it, due to thinking its too complicated.