pv (Pipe Viewer) is a command line tool to view verbose information about data streamed/piped through it. The data can be of any source like files, block devices, network streams etc. It shows the amount of data passed through, time running, progress bar, percentage and the estimated completion time.

that is what the /srv mount point is for. I mount all my external HDDs from there.

Konsole and zsh

try: hostnamectl --help

I use both myself, Fedora for desktop work and Debian for server

I have found Kate to be very capable with python and rust. With Sessions I can also have my own set of notes in markdown. The plugins are plentiful and git integration is built in.

I like sand