Digitalis

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For music, I think you have missed one of the better ones: gmusicbrowser.

I've tried many other music managers and players, and for me gmusicbrowser is very much the best. The tag editor is very powerful, it automatically retrieves lyrics, the layout of the player is highly customizable.

It went a long time without any development, but has been restarted in the last year. The current 1.1.99.0 beta version is a big improvement in stability. Worth checking out if you have even a modest music collection.
http://gmusicbrowser.org/

My current computing needs rarely include a laptop, so a 10-year-old, cheap "Black Friday" Acer running Devuan ASCII serves my needs.

But the design, apparent quality, and philosophy of the new System76 laptops makes them very tempting. The hardware just keeps getting better and better, while the company gets more and more open. I think that's a rare combination worthy of praise. The documentation, by the way, is fantastic, including full details on how to replace the battery and almost everything else: https://support.system76.com/articles/service-manuals/

At some point I'll replace my reliable-but-aging Acer, and I'm pretty sure it will be with a System76. I look forward to your unvarnished evaluation of the good and bad of the hardware, Pop!_OS, and System76.