For most people, a different desktop environment probably makes a bigger difference than a different distro. They won’t notice things like a different package manager

I’m really happy with Photoprism as well, it’s great to have facial recognition without relying on Google Photos

I use all of these and can confirm they’re really good! I can’t believe I used to just search through multiple email accounts instead of using Paperless.

How has your experience hosting your own email been? I often hear that the big providers (Google, Microsoft, etc.) will simply drop your sent mails.