One sticky point that took me a bit to clue in to was you need to login to an x11 session not the default Wayland. Unless sunshine has been updated to support wayland, this was about Feb I discovered that.
To change just log out and select x11 in bottom left corner of the login screen. Dont forget to switch back next time if you arent using sunshine
Having tried both popOS and manjaro I'd urge you to skip my trail and error and check out Nobara from the get go. Always found little naggling issues until I found Nobara
Could dual boot your laptop or run windows in a VM as someone suggested. Onlyoffice was what finally solved the office compatibility problem for me during school. O365 is online anyways and works on Linux...
Replaced gboard with a FOSS keyboard without internet access on your phone? I use and like AnySoftKeyboard.
Are you on stock android or a privacy friendly ROM? That'd be #1 on my list. I use grapheneos on a pixel 8 and would recommend. Whether you have google apps on your phone or not they have access to everything you do on stock android 🤷♂️
Either way I think its important to recognize how much you've already done, and not stress about what you can't change yet. You're already more private than 99% of the general population and you aren't in school forever. I was in the same boat with a windows partition on my laptop for a couple windows only programs for school (online test invigilation can be a bitch for compatibility, windows in a VM generally doesn't work I found), but school ends and that partition is gone now.
TL;DR
You're doing good, don't stress if you have to keep some stuff around for school, give onlyoffice a shot, look into privacy friendly ROMs for your phone.
Its not unheard of to have underground walking tunnels in cold cities connecting buildings and areas, but I haven't heard of any expanded to support biking.
University of Calgary has a bunch of them if I remember right, can get all over the place underground when its cold AF out.
Cancelled proton unlimited since the majority of their platform is lacking features on Linux and switched to just a simplelogin subscription to pocket the savings.
KOHO has a single virtual card that can be reset... but it would reset everything being billed to that card ofc so not quite 1-1 with privacy.com's per-service virtual cards.
That being said, my koho card was also compromised and their chat wouldn't let me dispute the transaction or talk to a human for another 3 days after the fact so I just closed it down.
Probably need to uninstall the xone driver you already installed from that link. Then open the welcome screen again (super key + type welcome, should be there) and there's an option to install the xone and xpadneo drivers already setup for nobara on one of the tabs there.
Seems like an honest recommendation to me. You fit the apple use case pretty well, so if it works for you, great. I'd argue a stock pixel using stock android would be comparable in terms of not needing to mess with stuff since its a very curated experience, since google then controls the hardware and software, like apple.
The trade off is you're giving google (or apple) 100% access and control to everything you do on your phone.
With a fairphone or any other android with (e, grapheneOS, calyxOS, lineage, etc) you WILL need to change some settings, maybe play around with it a bit to get it working how you want, but you are the one in control. Its really not that difficult to develop the small amount of technological knowledge needed given the amount of help available online and I'd say its a necessary life skill these days just like learning to use a computer became a necessary life skill.
Ya Raven calls are so cool