I’ve been all over the place tech-wise for at least 15 years now and I keep coming back to debian. Simple, reliable, and impressively enshittification-proof. I was on team xfce but got hooked on i3wm at some point and haven’t seen fit to look back.
I use Sublime for editor - it’s not free which I normally can’t tolerate but it has most of the functionality of vscode without being on the old corporate enshittification slide (and styles on vscode by feeling snappier too)
The data could in many cases be strong evidence someone worked somewhere, but the corollary isn’t true. A lack of data doesn’t prove someone didn’t work there, which makes this technique not very useful for some percentage of the population which makes the whole technique inconclusive