When you copy the outcome is almost always going to be worse than the original. Do your own thing and be the person or project you want to be. You don’t need to care outside of the project.

Which can be done on Wayland but it needs to be dome from a Wayland native app

Can relate

Why not OpenWRT?

I would argue that Linux is not more secure than Windows. Linux is way more private and gives you way more control but from a purely security perspective Linux has its own weaknesses and is constantly getting CVEs.

It seems very fishy to me

I don’t think you are going to have any more luck if it is clicking. What is the file system?

Virtualization has a 1-2% performance penalty

Not slow and bloaty. I’m not sure why you think snaps are snappy. They aren’t.

I just know it is popular with gamers

We shouldn’t design desktops to avoid copyright claims. Desktops should just create original designs that make sense for the goals of the desktop. We don’t need to make changes based on Windows 11 or Mac OS. They aren’t separate entirely and irrelevant.

No you got it all wrong KDE is just a Windows 11 copycat. Microsoft is full of original ideas.

They made GTK4 portable thanks to the gnome design being moved to Libadwaita.

Gnome is so much better than Mac OS

Also it is kind of insulting to call gnome a clone of something else. It is the work of thousands of people all over the globe. It isn’t trying to be a copy of anything.

Can’t you use Xwayland?

It is a gaming related community after all. There is less ethical and privacy concerns in that crowd from my experience. Not to say that it is bad as there is a community for everything.

Proxmox doesn’t have a lot of overhead. However, Ceph is a beast and requires very power hardware with at least a dedicated 10g network between hosts for transfers. You also need 5 or more nodes for it to be reliable. I wouldn’t recommend Ceph as there isn’t a lot of point to it. You can get a similar functionality with NFS or ZFS replication.

Just wait until you get a few machines. You can live transfer things and dynamically allocate resources.

LXC is worse than virtualization as it pins to a single core instead of getting scheduled by the kernel scheduler. It also is quiet slow and dated. Either run Podman, Docker or full VMs. Proxmox has a really nice GUI that allows for more advanced management and live transfers between hosts. It also ships with a newer kernel than Debian although it shouldn’t matter as you are using it for virtualization.

The onboard iGPU doesn’t need anything special once you turn on IOMMU. You just click add ePCI device.

It really depends on the hardware. Also PVE 8 adds some improvements. I would just follow the wiki.