Nerd Geeking: All Things Linux
January 7, 2026•166 words
I jumped into the world of Linux around 2005. I get my laptops from System76.com. I'm happy with Pop!_OS for my operating system software. Before that, I used Ububuntu.com from South Africa founder Mark Shuttleworth. I switched over to the Cosmic platform that System76 developed in house and released in December after 2 years+ of development. So far, I love it. It's much faster.
MY GO TO APPLICATIONS
- NextCloud. Notes and Tasks. Markdown or Text
- Internxt cloud/desktop backup. EE2E
- Standard Notes. EE2E secure notes
- ExpressVPN. The best I've used
- VS Codium. My primary Markdown editor
- Proton Mail. Fantastic secure. Labels!
- Proton Pass
- Proton Drive
- Proton VPN
- Apostrophe Markdown
- VLC. Video editor
- Warehouse.
- Gimp. Photo editor and creator
- Gparted. Disk formatting. Partition editor
- DejaDup backups. Encrypted
- Yubico Keys Strong security, complicated.
- Geary. Plain offline email. Fast!
- uGet. downloader
- Flameshot screen shots
- Midnight Commander. Old school file manager.