Thank you for pointing out that the license is not FOSS, I hadn’t noticed that. I suppose I’ll be exploring my options again.

I’d been using the Android client from f-droid and hadn’t needed to pay for it, which was working with my VW server. On my desktop/laptop I use rbw, so I hadn’t noticed the cert issues with the kekeyguard desktop client.

Thank you for pointing this out- I’d managed to completely miss that it seems. That’s unfortunate

Honestly, having a good LSP that provides context for its suggestions was a huge help for learning how to program in a couple languages. Made sure I actually understood what each part of my code was doing and how pieces fit together. If I’d had claude or copilot, I genuinely don’t think I’d have learned.

I’ve been very happy with Vaultwarden+Keyguard

https://keyguard.dev/

Edit: I had not looked closely enough at the license and did not realize it’s not FOSS, my bad

I mean yeah, I’m very strongly looking at moving from Debian to Gentoo right now, and I’ve been an excited Debian user for years.

The default assumption that we must exist, for one

As someone who’s worked for several years in higher ed IT and used Linux during my studies, this’ll only get you most of the way there. Unfortunately some proctoring software (Respondus Lockdown Browser comes to mind) can be incredibly invasive, and to my knowledge will refuses to run in a VM.

Instructors also have a tendency of not disclosing during registration whether or not they use these proctoring softwares.

I’m lucky enough that by the time I was all-in on Linux, I wasn’t taking courses that used that exam model, but it’s why I make sure that the helpdesk at my current institution offers loaner devices to students who either have computers incapable of running the proctoring software, or who simply don’t want that kind of software on their own machine. It’s a pain in the ass to work with, but apparently it’s enshrined in our faculty’s union contract.