+1 for both comments above.
Back up your current disk! If you do it properly you can always restore your current operating system if this experiment doesn’t pan out.
Fedora KDE is an excellent starter choice. The DE will feel relatively familiar coming from Windows and Fedora is very much a batteries included distro. Red Hat guides are excellent and very useful in that family.
That’s not even to mention declarative, rootless, podman containers via systemd or quadlet (the containers, too, can be NixOS)!
NixOS Containers can also be a good option if you don’t care about rootless.
Another one for Tuta, with addy.io as a proxy service. Nice integration with Bitwarden for making new accounts + it’s simple to make rules based on the to address for easy filtering.
Would there be any harm in using this in conjunction with something like Stirling to edit with one and read with the other?
Apparently I’m in the minority, but I love Logseq. I’ve used it with Syncthing for personal notes and grad school for the past three years with no hiccups. Maybe my success with it is partially due to nested bullet points already being how my brain works but the default paradigm is perfect for me.
The plain markdown files are organized reasonably, so I can straight up use Vim as my notes editor if I want.
Tags (#) create a new page to easily circle back to topics later without interrupting your thought pattern to make that structure manually. Once you leave edit mode for the line the tag becomes a link to that page. Some of my favorites are #clothes-that-fit (where I can easily embed a picture of the tag of what I’m trying on to look for deals online later), or #reading-list.
It’s just so useful.
I haven’t experienced that at all and I embed all kinds of pictures and links in my 2-3 years of grad school + personal notes. How many is “a lot” to you?
If it genuinely is a logeq problem did you ever try splitting notes into multiple graphs for different topics?
You’re right, the server, cryptographic library, and all clients are open source.
That said, I have a few personal caveats.
For that workload? I quite literally run more than that on a (le)potato