Azzy

You could try Asahi Linux, they’ve been doing lots of work getting Fedora working nicely on the new ARM macbooks :)

GregTech: New Horizons (A minecraft modpack) should keep you busy for… about 8000 hours?

Gentoo -> Linux From Scratch -> Kernel From Scratch

windows -> LMDE -> Fedora KDE -> Arch Linux -> Gentoo

Unfortunately, the custom graphics driver only supports OpenGL 3.3 (from 2010) and OpenGL ES (embedded systems) 3.2 (via Zink, via Mesa)

Edit: Just realized i forgot to actually answer the question. I don’t believe they’ve yet added support for the video encoding/decoding engine, but once that arrives i believe it should be comparable to MacOS

I’ve never used AdGuard, and I don’t know exactly what the ease-of-use is or how configurable it is, but I think that Pi-Hole is a better option nonetheless. It’s built by the community instead of a corporation, and likely has more/better documentation than its peers.

Although I use Tailscale, the control servers are closed source. For those of you who like self hosting though, there is a project called Headscale that implements them anyways https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

There are NTFS drivers for Linux, it can read and write it fine, no wine needed :)

You might consider using something like Archiso (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archiso). On an arch-based distribution, you can try “mkarchiso -h” to get the options, and from there determine what you want.