Running a law firm on Free software

Neil Brown, who runs a small English law firm on Free software, provides a 2026 update on his technology setup after running decoded.legal for five years. His client-side tools include Debian with GNOME, Thunderbird and mutt for email, LibreOffice Writer and pandoc for document production, reveal.js for presentations, and various specialized applications like Xournal++ for PDF markup and espanso for text expansion. While most of his setup remains unchanged since previous updates, he notes some hardware issues with his ThinkPad and minor software quirks like Thunderbird's calendar invitation problems.