Personal note: I am not very knowledgeable on computers.
I have a new solid state drive after my old hard drive's Windows key apparently 'expired.'
The ssd is preloaded with Windows 10 because of familiarity and 'muh gaymes', but I do want to start getting away from Microsoft stuff (including the OS) on principle.
I know internet browser options are currently a bit "pick your poison." I've been satisfied with Brave and Waterfox, and previously Pale Moon (dropped for some website or add-in functionality I can't remember from years ago).
Besides that, I was thinking this might be a good opportunity to learn about current software/projects doing things properly.
So, I'll just share what programs I see among my hard drive files... 7zip, SumatraPDF, VLC, Audacity (which I recall seeing got bought), Steam, Dropbox, MusicBee (music player and manager), OpenOffice, and some game emulators for a Nintendo fanboomer.
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Mullvad is better as a VPN, and for torrenting you're best off either getting a realdebrid account or seedbox. You can integrate either into a full setup with sonarr, radarr, and the rest.
I find it hard to trust them with how many spammy sponserships there are on youtube
They're just a big player. I have yet to hear anybody suggest a better alternative that's easy.
I don't know about Waterfox specifically, but other web browsers have their own PDF reader functionality now, so this might be unnecessary.
Pretty sure all the browsers use JavaScript to display the PDFs so it should be secure except from million-dollar exploits (which nobody is wasting on you).
Your native client on the other hand is probably secure only because it's too small a target.