Right, but still quite affordable compared to similar solution with Proton IMHO

Yeah, best combo for me too

You can try Frost, a web wrapper for Facebook: get in on F-Droid here.

You can also run it isolated using Shelter, another app on F-Droid, get it here.

Yep, update at night is good

Dell provides XPS laptop with Ubuntu on it. It works great and Ubuntu can be replaced with other distro ( I did successfully tested Mint and now Debian 11)

Own server but with very few things running on it…

Wow, great… Didn’t know about needrestart

Works OK but makes your connection slow as hell… Not really useful for daily usage.

I don’t think so, mostly it’s hardening, and few security related software, all FOSS

But you’ll need much more RAM, 8 GB is a bare minimum…

The kicksecure documentation is well written. Go here for distro-morphing of Debian 12, step by step things to do are pretty explicit and you can even copy the command lines if you think you’ll make a mistake…

You have a link?

This is the best choice IMHO. You have a rock solid OS (Debian) and all possible taken measures to harden it with Kicksecure patch.

OpenBoard with gestures? Where? Version 1.4.5 has no gestures, and it’s the last one… And three is no search feature for emoji, it’s in the ToDo list

Windows… With this only word you already have all the abswers

TrackerControl is quite similar to NetGuard, but I find more user friendly and you have all features you need. Get the full version from F-Droid or from their Website.

For Nebulo, you can get it here, or F-droid, but the website gives you all useful info you need to know.

You’re right for Pinta. Can’t be 100% sure about Paint.NET to be fully open source but as it based on .NET it might be…

Well, GIMP is great but uneasy, not sure but Paint.NET on Windows is simpler but very user friendly and may be sufficient for your needs

Ans there’s even no Chinese brands… Will be even much worse!