1. I’d be fine with any. Trying Fedora, or maybe Debian. But I’d rather set up networking at the qemu level so the vm only has access to what I want it to.
2. I don’t know how it would work, but I can create a new device id and make a new wireguard conf file. I don’t know why this wouldn’t work with any other conf/interface on my host.
3. I want this to be physical router agnostic, as the host is a laptop. Only the vpn and host should be exposed to the VM.

For the tablet? I’m considering a Surface keyboard or cheaper alternative, but I would usually be using it for handwritten notes and other tasks for which I would not use the keyboard. It would really be most useful during initial setup. I would still need to easily open it when the keyboard is removed.

Yup. I checked their webpage. Might help battery but I’ll try vanilla first. Unfortunately, no dice with the secondary display thing. With RDP, the hardware cursor won’t send, and I can find a way to use RDP over type c cable.

Flare isn’t feature complete but you can run it in the background for all notifications.

I’d imagine the drm would ruin that plan. No HD streaming.

I much prefer Windows to MacOS. The fact it is missing decent tiling is a nonstarter. It’s too inflexible for my workflow.

And sure, Windows can be maddeningly inconsistent, but what really destroys the experience is the constant ensh*ttification. I know a lot of people here hate everything about Windows, but for me, it only sucks because Microsoft designs it to suck.

Not only are there ads and (some) first party lockin, I cannot trust they will continue offering updates, paywall feaures, restrict more functionality, or insert stuff like AI to mess up my workflow.

I used to think reliability was just about stability and bugginess, but now I think it is about trust as well.

Checkmate atheistd