Black Friday Deals for Linux Users — 2024 Edition

Thanksgiving is around the corner. Happy Thanksgiving to folks in the USA.

It is also the time for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals.

While there are discount campaigns offered on a range of products, I am listing some that should be of interest for a Linux user and tech enthusiast.

Take a look and see if something interests you.

Do keep in mind that these deals are for a limited time only, and they have been duly mentioned.

Most, if not all, services have a money-back policy. It helps in getting your money back if you don't like the product or service. Please get those details before you decide to buy.

Of course, buy what you need or what you want (if it's affordable). Don't burn your pocket. Furthermore, read the terms and conditions of the deals. Make an intelligent buying decision.

A few tips I suggest:

• Distinguish between 'I need' and 'I want'. See if it is okay to spend money comfortably on 'I want' category of products.
• Deals with 'money back guarantee' are usually safer if it's a new product. But read the fine prints on the refund policy, as not every product will offer 30 days money back period. Some go as less as 3 days.
• Try the purchased product and service quickly. No point in delaying and finding out that the service doesn't meet your requirement after the refund period (if any) is over.
• Almost all deals with will be for a short period of time. So, keep that in mind as well.

With that aside, let's see the Black Friday deals collection.

Cloud Storage Deals

Black Friday deals are the best time to extend your cloud storage. You will find some insane lifetime deals, some long-term, and some subscriptions. For some services, you can stack up the deals to increase the storage.

Ente's Last Black Friday Sale

Ente is a one-of-a-kind open source Google Photos alternative.

Considering privacy is a luxury in itself, they have their pricing plans aimed towards sustainability and quality. If you have always wanted to give them a try, but could not because of the expensive plans, this is their last Black Friday sale with up to 65% off.

Filen — Cloud Storage

A fairly new cloud storage service offering zero-knowledge encryption from Germany has Black Friday deals going on with nice discounts like:

• 1 monthly 200 GB for €0,99
• 1 lifetime 200 GB for €35,99

And, many more discounts for all its lifetime, monthly, and annual deals.

pCloud — Cloud Storage

pCloud is an established name in the cloud storage space, popular for its one-of-a-kind lifetime deals.

With this Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale, it also lists a couple of super value deals like:

• 5 TB storage + File Encryption + Pass Premium (Lifetime) — $599
• 1 TB Lifetime — $199, 10 TB Lifetime — $799.
• 5 TB storage + Pass Premium (Lifetime)— $499

Ice Drive — Cloud Storage

Ice Drive is a decent cloud storage provider, popular for its lifetime discounted deals. And, they are back with such Black Friday deals this year. All the deals include client-side encryption:

• 512 GB of storage for a one-time fee of $179
• 2 TB of storage for a one-time fee of $349
• 10 TB of storage for a one-time fee of $899

Internxt — Cloud Storage

Web3 based decentralized, encrypted, and open source cloud storage service for privacy enthusiasts.

While I am not a fan of these "85% off" marketing campaigns, I can see that there is a decent discount that gives me the product or service at a relatively lower price.

You can find subscription deals, and lifetime deals with the same discount.

Courses & Certifications

Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals give you the best opportunity to get certification exam vouchers and courses for an affordable price.

Some of the best deals include:

DataCamp — Data Science Learning Platform

Learn the data skills you need online at your pace—from non-coding essentials to data science, AI, and machine learning.

KodeKloud — Linux and DevOps Courses

An online platform to learn all the cutting-edge DevOps technologies like Docker, Kubernetes and Hashicorp. There are playgrounds for you to do hands-on, learning paths and preparations for certification exams.

Udacity — Tech Courses

Udacity is a reputed platform for all kinds of courses, whether it is about learning Python, Linux, AI or Digital Marketing.

It offers a subscription with which you can access its entire catalog. With this Black Friday, you get a massive discount on the subscription, one-time fee for a particular course, and other bundles.

VPN & Privacy Tools

To enhance your privacy, you require some of the best services that do not log your data.

And, most of those services, offer up to 80% discounts in various degrees. Refer to the best ones here:

SimpleLogin + Proton Pass Lifetime Deal

SimpleLogin is a part of Proton for a while. So, this is a part of Proton's Black Friday deals where you get the Proton password manager for 1 user with all premium features, and SimpleLogin's unlimited alias service for a one-time fee, i.e., $199.

🕐Ends: December 3, 2024

Proton Mail, VPN, and Drive

Swiss-based Proton is known for privacy-focused services. You get discounts across all of its products, including the private email service, encrypted cloud storage and VPN.

Their Black Friday offer is giving up to 70% off.

Surfshark VPN

Surfshark offers several privacy-focused product, but they are primarily known for their VPN.

Along with discounts for the VPN, you can also get an attractive offer for Surfshark One privacy bundle. It includes Antivirus, and data breach alerts along with the VPN.

NordVPN

NordVPN is one of the most competitive offerings in terms of affordability, privacy, and security. This year, they are providing even greater discounts.

Windscribe VPN

If you are a fan of ethics, Windscribe VPN could convince you with their hilarious (and honest) marketing.

All of their apps are open source. And, unlike most VPNs, the deal price is locked for you forever (not just for the first year).

StartMail — Private Email

A private email service which is an alternative to Gmail and Proton Mail, both. It offers an encrypted email service along with a built-in tool to protect your email address.

With the package, you get unlimited email aliases, and the ability to add custom domains.

Standard Notes — Encrypted Note-Taking

There are a couple of good options when it comes to end-to-end encrypted note-taking solutions, and Standard Notes takes the top spot with its convenience and security.

NordPass

If you are looking for a different password manager experience, and like all the products from NordVPN, this could be a suitable option.

You get up to 54% discount for 2-year plans for business, personal, and family subscriptions.

Servers and Monitoring

You'll find numerous discount offers on cloud servers, monitoring and other related services. Some of them come around Cyber Monday, too.

Netdata for server and infrastructure monitoring

Netdata is a comprehensive solution for infrastructure monitoring. From your Linux server to Docker container, Netdata is capable of monitoring a huge number of parameters.

They have 20% discount running on their homelab plan.

Backblaze: Cloud backup for personal computer

While Backblaze is popular for its backup storage plan Backblaze B2, their Black Friday deal is only for personal computer backup plan.

Gadgets or Computers

Unfortunately, the Black Friday deals on hardware are limited to certain countries/region. In this case, it should be US/Canada in most cases.

However, if something offers international shipping, and the discount sounds like a good deal even with the custom charges, go for it after proper research.

System76 — Linux Computers

System76 is a US-based Linux system manufacturer. They are also behind the popular Pop!_OS distribution.

Juno Computers

Juno Computers is a UK-based Linux system manufacturer. They are known for some of their tablets and laptops tailored towards Linux.

Petoi - DIY Robots

Petoi is a reputed name for offering DIY robots built on top of Arduino and other open source technologies.

ZimaCube Deals — Homelab and Personal Server

Whether you are a creator, a tech enthusiast, or a DIY Innovator—this is your moment. You can set up an interesting home lab or personal server setup using a ZimaCube offered at a discount.

Some offers like:

• ZimaCube Pro 16G: 20% OFF—Store up to 164TB with Thunderbolt 4 and 10GbE networking.
• ZimaBoard 232: 45% OFF—Just $49.4! The perfect starter for personal servers.
• ZimaBlade 3760: 20% OFF—Compact, versatile, and built for DIY creators.
• ZimaBoard 832 "Special Agent Kit": 30% OFF—Advanced setups made easy.

Khadas — Single Board Computers

A Raspberry Pi like SBCs and many more devices for tinkerers.

Others

If you are seeking deals on interesting products and tools geared towards a particular use-case, such as cybersecurity, or productivity. I have listed some here.

ANY.RUN Black Friday Deal — Online Malware Sandbox

If you are into Cybersecurity, and want to explore malware hunting, you can grab your Black Friday deal from ANY.RUN 🚀

For individual users: you get 2 licenses for the price of 1.

For teams: Up to 3 licenses + TI Lookup basic plan for a year as a gift. Learn more about offers and get yours at 👇

Coming Soon!

Here are some of the products and services that are likely to offer their Black Friday offer soon:

• LanguageTool Grammar Checker
• Linux Foundation courses and certification exams
• Raspad
• LaptopWithLinux
• Crossover

I'll be updating this page with more such money-saving offers as I come across them.

If you know some appealing deals that should interest Linux users, please let me know in the comments and I'll add them here.