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Glad I could help :)

This is going to be a long list.

VLC, for playing videos and other media.

Auxio, for playing music and organizing playlists and such.

ConnectBot, for SSH.

Shizuku, for apps that support it.

RootlessJamesDSP, for audio stuff. Powered by Shizuku.

aShell, for stuff that requires root permission.

Aurora Store, for the few apps I need from the playstore.

KISS Launcher.

Droidify, for everything I need from F-Droid. Also powered by Shizuku.

Feeder, for RSS feeds.

FTPClient, for SFTP connections.

LibreTorrent, for torrenting and such.

Mull, for web browsing.

Personally I use the torrent ip check on ipleak.net. You just add the magnet to your client and it'll fail itself and then list the ip on the site.

Yeah the search results are what I'm most worried about. There's a ridiculous amount of troubleshooting solutions and discussions on Reddit and losing that is going to suck. It's probably gonna take a few years of growth for Lemmy to even begin to take its place, but luckily a lot of the tech community on Reddit has already moved here so it shouldn't take as long.

I use Claws Mail for my mail stuff. It works really well with my self-hosted email server and I really like the UI and such. On Windows I used to use the mail client that was pre-installed.

For text editing I've switched to vim and emacs (doom). I usually use vim for quick little edits to things that aren't worth opening up emacs and finding it in there and I use emacs for anything that'll take some time. On Windows I used VS Code.

For a web browser I use Firefox, hardened with arkenfox/userjs. Never had any problems with it and have been using it since before switching to Linux.

I deleted the app I was using to browse reddit (Infinity) and have blocked reddit.com system-wide on my computer. Admittedly this is a bit overkill for me but it's an easy solution.

I've been on Linux for around a year now and for most of that I've been on either Arch or Gentoo. On Arch I start to miss the features of Gentoo and it's modularity, so I switch. Then on Gentoo I start to get frustrated from my inexperience and move back to Arch. Then the cycle repeats. Personally though, I like Gentoo better, I just get lazy sometimes and move to Arch.