A couple months I came across a cheap convertible that I bought to tinker with and try out Linux with touch interfaces. The bottom line is that it's very lacking. Gnome and KDE have some stuff for touch interfaces to make it kinda work but it's definitely not suitable if you wanna use the touch stuff as your main navigation mechanic. I see a lot of people recommending Gnome in this thread and each time a similar questions come up, which I simply cannot agree with. Nautilus doesn't even offer a way to right click. KDE's on-screen keyboard is kinda spotty when it comes up. All in all it's still pretty rough without mouse and keyboard. If you want to go full tablet mode you'll be light years away from the experience Android can give you. Personally I settled for fydeOS, which is a ChromeOS fork.
Mullvad doesn't have port forwarding anymore. As long as you don't want to leech top secret dark net torrents that only 3 people have in the world, you're absolutely fine.
I have earbuds and a speaker from them, both are pretty decent for the price. They're better budget hardware. Excellent customer service should you have issues.
I'm not gonna mention the basics like Kate. They're great but nothing new.
My 2 hidden gems that I use on a daily basis are:
QOwnNotes for markdown note taking. Only competent desktop app I found that comes without any electron bullshit.
Nyrna to send a game to sleep when I want to take a break or get interrupted. Saves me from booting it up again when I want to pick up where I left off.
After having beaten The Pathless yesterday I started playing Uncharted 4. I'm a couple hours in and I have to say, it feels a lot more like an interactive movie than an actual game. I'm hoping it gets more interesting
When Le Pen gets elected in 4 years we'll talk about the good old times with Macron.