I tossed Mint on a VM briefly and really disliked it. Specifically finding the terminal was painful. Did they bury it pretty deep or did I just overlook it?

I use PopOS on my rig which is primarily gaming. It does great and gets out of my way.

The proton client for Linux has improved recently. I use it on PopOS. As to your first point I agree. I landed with Proton specifically because it was cheaper to do it and email rather than separate services.

Identity theft monitoring services always scare me. It seems like you are dumping a huge amount of information into a single system and just hoping the vendor is secure. I have access to one but refuse to put much information in. Is this mindset incorrect?

I thought we found Carmen Sandiego.

To have one ready out of the box with linux maybe look at the System76 offerings? https://system76.com/

Edit: just got a chance to check and they are slightly above your $1000 criteria. So maybe on his recommendation.

Pretty sure that the very first gen Google ?dot? Mini speaker has physical disconnect.

It’s fairly good. I find the autocorrect to be poor and result in a much lower typing speed though.

Highly dependent on workplace. Many with govt contracts could feel an obligation to punish this.

Pop has been Rock solid for me and steam gaming. Trivial to set up and the store is wonderful too. Nice that it works great for non gaming tasks as well.

Is that free plan? I’m on paid and don’t see any advertising from them.

Did they ever allow for turning off head bob and blur? That game makes me motion sick to an insane degree.

Ubuntu broke with my Nvidia card. I went to PopOS and the problems stopped.

Those are the good providers. If there were another good provider and this is being done with intent than they will just block that domain as well. I use a custom domain with proton, I think that would protect against this but maybe some folks more engaged could chime in before you take that as advice.

What bank offers this?