noorbeast

There are lots of choices, but personally I would go with Linux Mint as something likely familiar and packaged with pretty much all the basics for the use case you outlined.

I guess 'cool' depends on personal interest and circumstances.

A house move likely prevents running our Aussie Halloween this year, after being featured on State TV news last year, but I would like to share past family/friends efforts to establish a fun spooky celebration, in circumstances where locally there is not an established tradition, originating because my daughter in-law grew up in North Carolina and she and my eldest son moved here at the height of the pandemic, so I have adopted Halloween as a way to incorporate her fond childhood memories into our local family and local Aussie community traditions, with the help of family members and many talented friends: https://scarymandercove.au/

Pity the details are pay walled.

Just an observation, if a corporate entity restricts you from using the security measures you specificity choose, that speaks volumes as to why you should be skeptical as to the motives and offerings of that corporate entity.

Perhaps I am incredibly naive, but for me a “Forever mouse” is something you buy, own, and have control absolute over!

This...plus you can ad swipe support.

No, a software or hardware KVM lets you use the same keyboard and mouse across multiple devices.

Have a look at software KVMs, for a similar functionality.

A simple usb KVM should do the trick of easily switching between the two.

Making data based decisions for our future, and the future of our families, as opposed to those that are expedient or political advantageous, seems eminently sensible.

That said, particularly in Australia, the chance of political/public confidence that we can make real, necessarily, and data based future oriented nation decisions is likely low, given historic political undermining efforts related to vested interests are incredibly high.