Yeah. Email’s actually quite unpleasant (not hard) to do well. Look sideways at anyone doing it free or super-cheap.

Is there an option for “being tortured right now?”

Yeah, the Arch Wiki is incredible, even as a non-Arch user, it’s such a valuable source of knowledge.

Pretty sure that describes pretty much the entire planet now.

Desktop: Ubuntu, mainly because that’s what we support at work

Servers: Debian/Proxmox