If you’re ok with using Oracle, you can get quite a bit of computing resources for free: https://gitlab.com/ptman/matrix-docs/-/tree/master/free-matrix-server#get-a-free-server

Rocky Linux will be a new 100% compatible RHEL rebuild https://github.com/hpcng/rocky

Great! But I’m migrating passwords from keepass to bitwarden_rs, which seems quite good so far.

I’m in the process of moving from Debian to NixOS, but have used Ubuntu and CentOS as well.

the ui bits are closed, most of the building blocks are open

Classic do as I say, not as I do: https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/hb0jl8/

Anyone know how to use nord with wireguard without installing their closed client?

https://distr1.org/ sounds better than most traditional ones. But Nix is lovely.