for a long time i had a lot of windows machines and linux machines, but as of late ive fully committed to linux. i started doing linux back in like 2002 or something, and i mostly liked it for keeping old machines working on low specs and while remaining fairly secure (i wasnt the richest kid growing up so i was constantly trying to squeeze juice out of everything i had available). i still use old 2003 hardware for simple tasks like displaying pdfs for cooking in my kitchen.
these days, it can more than handle being a daily driver, i think that started around 3-5 years ago. there are no issues in the vast majority of applications and games, open source has caught up to many closed source applications in many contexts, and proton is so absurdly good at what it does now. the only thing it lacks are games that rely on excessive kernel level anticheat, which frankly you shouldnt play ever for security reasons. and soon enough, through lepton itll be able to run android apps as natively as possible, which will make it fundamentally the most versatile desktop operating system.
I do agree it's likely more secure, but the tradeoff for common use cases (gaming, development) is steep. I could see using it solely for browsing and messaging people
You can also just slot secure blue into a qube I believe
I think Secureblue + GrapheneOS are the most reasonable choices imo. Qubes is highly hardware intensive for what it does, it will frustrate most people.
afaik theyre parasitizing microsoft this way by compiling and distributing everything on github, makes it cheaper too. they have a way for local computers to distribute software as peers at least so you only really need to download it once if your server or w.e. runs it too
Be a doctor, in medical, electric, or plumbing. They'll exist forever. Alternatively luck out and work 50 work from home jobs at the same time it's all bullshit work and 99% meetings and very doable
there are some eink 'smartphones' that are wifi only, bigme hibreak is one. obviously nothing will beat a pixel with graphene on it tho