Basically, linux can be used before installing and its called a live disk. Make a boot drive with etcher and boot into it. Been using Nebora project (fedora 42) and its been great so far

Will have to check it out, mainly my use case for qBit is the built in search, it’s fantastic

Jebora is pretty damn good too

Ive never had an issue with PIA, CHEAP as hell on a 3 year plan with an affiliate link and they run their servers on RAM Disk so no logging

Futo keyboard has voice to text with the ability to download more language models