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For acoustic, it depends what I'm playing - same pick for strumming.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
It's a Dunlop Tortex red pick. Not that thick...point 50mm?
At home, almost always fingers, for picking, lead, chordbashing et al.
Sometimes I'd try to learn to play guitar with my fingers, but my nails are naturally weak and it always ended up in blood and mess. Back to picks.
Then I went to a nail salon and asked for an artificial nail, started playing with one finger and thumb (same way I used to play bass). I got lots better. I graduated to two fingers and thumb, tried all four, and have settled down to using three fingers (nail and/or flesh, mix and match) and thumb (just a pick-shaped callous on the side of it).
I keep picks around for visitors to use. Every three or four months I try playing with one, throw it down in disgust and go back to bare fingers after a couple of minutes.
I'm not going back.
Dunlop also make a Tortex TIII pick that is the same size as a regular Dunlop but with the Jazz teardrop pointed tip. I love them and use them 99% off the time for my playing
Pickwise, I like Clayton Flex or Fender heavy. The trick, I find, is to mess up the tip so it grabs the string more. Gives a different sound.