I was inspired by Luke Smith's Programs page.
I use a custom-built x86-based home computer which I call the Big Rig. I've included the Willsome English equivalent of the computer components just for the fun of it in parenthesis:
I also have a Dell Vostro 200 which I picked up from school along with the keyboard I mention later down the page. It used to be my daily driver but it is now my I2P router and Pihole. It has the same specs as any other Vostro 200, except I have a Core 2 Duo E8600 which is faster than the one it originally came with and 8 GB of memory.
This is an HTPC for my living room, although I severely underestimated the headache of Kodi and figuring out how to integrate Kodi and Retroarch so that I could use a remote with a ten foot UI without needing to bust out the keyboard. It needs to be easy enough that even my mom could use it to complete its goal of replacing the smart TV. Maybe I'll figure it out soon enough.
I used to use a Logitech Marble Mouse, also known as the Logitech Trackman. It's really a trackball, not a mouse. In the 2000's we had a Logitech Marble FX, but unfortunately we lost it and they don't make them anymore, only the regular Marble Mouse. In the 2010's with the trackballs' loss in popularity we switched to a de-facto mouse, but I was pleasantly surprised to learn that they still make trackballs to this day. I really don't get the downsides people talk about with trackballs. They talk about them like they're a fragment that deserve to be in the past. One of the biggest ones is that they're bad for gaming, but heck, there is even a gaming trackball (for a pretty penny, but they do exist)! I don't endorse gaymer (yes, this is how I spell it) equipment though, it's such a consumeristic thing to spend your time and money on. I like most of Logitechs products because they are easy to fix and mix and match parts in, thus you don't have to constantly buy, buy, buy replacements. This is most notable with the Marble Mouse, the switches in it were faulty so I replaced them with better ones from an actual Logitech wireless mouse. I used a toothpick to hold the left mouse button higher, as certain parts of it were starting to not press down on the switch. This solved the problem and I have had no issues for over a year now.
I just recently got a Porlei TM550 trackball (the wired version) which is what I'm using on my desktop now. Its right-handed like the Marble FX. You can get it pretty cheap off Amazon, I think it was under 30 bucks. So far I'm incredibly impressed because it doesn't feel cheap, it has a nice matte finish feeling to it. It comes with a pressable scroll wheel in addition to the back and forward buttons. The blue ball looks really cool and the bearings are incredibly smooth.
As for other peripherals, I have a pair of Logitech (this is a common theme, I do have a lot of Logitech equipment, except the headset I'll speak about momentarily) speakers. I used to have a Logitech headset which I don't remember the name of. It was probably the only product from Logitech I've been disappointed by. It actually kinda hurt to wear and broke in half within two months because the plastic was cheaply made, even more so than their other products. It would have been incredibly difficult to fix something wired that was broken in half like that. I believe this shows a contrast in the way things used to be built and now, the headset was one of Logitech's newer products while the speakers and trackball I have are some of their oldest products. The headset I use now is from Onn, which is Walmart's globohomo brand. I'm holding onto it as long as I can.
My keyboard is a Dell SK-8115. I picked this up for 0$ from my school, which was throwing away tens of computers from the computer lab. They were all Dell Vostros. I happened to salvage one and the keyboard, but unfortunately, I didn't grab any of the CRTs. Those things are getting rare but our teacher had gotten the boys (including me) in my class to throw them in the dumpster, which my classmates then thought it would be fun to bust them up with baseball bats. Real fun to contribute to unsalvageable e-waste and replace it with locked down Mac computers.
I use the GNU/Linux distribution PCLinuxOS on my desktop. For servers, I'm currently transitioning to Devuan.
Although I've used many, including TDE, I use KDE Plasma. In principle I like TDE more but since it uses an old fork of Qt it doesn't see the kind of improvements to the toolkit that KDE has now. Unlike GTK, Qt continues to get better.
I use Joe's Own Editor (JOE) for command line text editing and Kate, the KDE Advanced Text Editor, for graphical editing. For JOE, I use the default keybindings rather than jmacs or jpico. I have nothing against Vim, Nano, or others but I first used JOE on Slackware and stuck with it since. For writing actual documents or other office-related tasks I use the LibreOffice suite.
A long time ago I was an Opera user, but when I became more serious about free software I switched over to just Firefox and then LibreWolf, but I simply can't support Mozilla or LibreWolf any longer. I use Falkon and secondarily Brave.
For search engines, I alternate between multiple. I prefer using SearXNG but lately I've been using Swisscows and Startpage. Swisscows seems to have gotten worse so mainly just Startpage.
For email, RSS news, etc. I use Claws Mail which is always my second option. The reason I'm not using the KDE PIM suite (my first choice) is that it's broken on PCLinuxOS. I hope to find out how to fix it.