• 2 laptops, 1 from work, 1 personal (used for school work)
• mini PC homeserver (nextcloud and immich)
• 2 smartphones (1 from work)
• smartwatch
• tablet for school work
• old MP3 player I use everyday at home

I use strengthlog, the free version is pretty complete and without ads

The pay also depends if you work for yourself or someone else. You can make a decent living working for yourself, but if you work for someone else on this area, you’ll be exploited, and exploited a lot!

At least Lenovo already has this option in some laptop models. I bought a Thinkpad last September and it had an option to buy it with Windows, Ubuntu or without any OS. It really should be the standard