I love niri, last time I looked it was not yet on par with paperwm which is why I'm still on it.
GravitySpoiled
GNOME because of PaperWM
With an atomic system it's less likely to brick your system. You can stay in the debian world with vanillaos (I've never used it) but fedora atomic is very good. On a day to day basis you shouldn't have/use admin rights to break your system
Those things happen on windows as well
On linux you just put the ovpn into the settings. VPN connections are built into the system
Yes, I have used systems that broke. Yes I followed bad advice and broke my system. Ever since not touching my system, that didn't happen again. If I would touch windows, I would brik windows as well.
Wdym with linux can be broken?
Don't mess woth the system and go atomic. Fedora atomic kde or gnome or wm
You want beets to organize your music https://beets.io/
You want to use the musicbrainz database
And you want to scrobble your plays to listenbrainz.
You will serve your music however you want. Navidrome is one of the best, you can't go wrong.
Navidrome does not take car eof tagging. You have to make sure your music is tagged properly. You can also use other software for it that uses beets under the hood. Someone shall chime in and suggest the best app for that as beets isn't end user friendly.
Open ports?
I use GNOME and donate to KDE anyway
It's astonishing that they were so open about it. They didn't even hide to try to hide it
You can't easilyy switch between different inages like on an atomic fedora system.
Do you have to switch now? No.