Maybe unpopular opinion here, but I just read The Three Musketeers, and it’s not even close to The Count of Monte Cristo.

The characters wildly change in tone and basic morals, the heroes are dirtbags, and the plot wanders.

I still enjoyed it, but it just wasn’t the same.

There’s a chain near me that makes a breakfast sandwich with eggs, bacon, white cheddar, a really excellent garlic aioli, and Ciabatta bread.

I go there way too much.

Fringe is great. Season 1 is a bit “Monster of the week” but when it gets going it’s a great ride.

If you haven’t seen it, Ex Machina (2014) fits the vibe of your list. It’s one of my favorites.

The Punt for Red October

(Assuming American Football)

It has my favorite user interface, but I feel that it bogs down after viewing a series of images. I also feel that development has stalled a bit (edit, I was mistaken: they just released a pre release).

I haven’t found a better one, though. Next best so far has been Racoon.

I do this as well, but I use Libation: https://github.com/rmcrackan/Libation

Super easy, barely an inconvenience.

Then I use Audiobookshelf https://www.audiobookshelf.org/ to host the books and their Android app to play them.

A few I haven’t seen mentioned:

• Moon+ Reader - My favorite ebook reader of all time.
• Tea Time - Simple timer widgets
• Simple Time Tracker - Track what you do
• NES.emu, Snes9x EX+, M64+ FZ - Emulators
• Thunder - Lemmy
• Root Explorer - file explorer
• Lichess - Chess, free of ads, no fees. Almost entirely FOSS.

Also +1 to the usual favorites: Firefox, Termux, Nova, etc.

Kubuntu currently is working really well for me. I’m not a hardcore Linux user (used it lightly for many years, daily driver for only couple), so it’s nice to use Ubuntu where there’s plenty of online answers. Plus I like KDE. So Kubuntu is a good fit.

I recently tried Fedora for a while, but I just had problem after problem with my hardware. It was good aside from that.