The software I'll install on my laptop once I ditch macOS for Linux

Main web browser.
Also: Waterfox with this theme.

For backups.
Also: Duplicati

For graphic design.
Also: Gravit Designer & Vectr

Operating system.

Desktop environment.
Also: Budgie

Launcher.

Email client.
With this theme.

Screenshots.

Partition manager.

Image viewer.

VPN.

Document viewer.
Also: Okular

File manager.
Also: Dolphin File Manager

For video conversion/transcoding.

For listening podcasts.
Also: CPod

FTP client.

For vector graphics editing.

For managing fonts.

Terminal.
Also: upterm, Tilix and rxvt-unicode.

• Yakuake for drop down terminal

Video editing.
Also: Kdenlive, Shotcut & Flowblade.

Peer to peer.

Video player.

Markdown editing.

Quick code editing.

Vim-style coding.

Coding.
Also: Howl

Note taking.
Also: Boostnote

Note taking.

Second web browser.
Also: Midori, Min browser and Basilisk.

File archiver.

For gaming.

System optimizer.

Firewall application that monitors and controls outbound internet traffic.