I like how everyone is acting like it is normal to have this in self hosted

It is a matter of when

Nothing lasts forever

Until they revoke it

Tailscale and Netbird are foss software so they can always be forked. There are also. alternatives like Wireguard and Hyperspace. (Never tried hyperspace)

People use Plex?

True management material

College is a joke

They want to find excuses not to provide any customer service

Very much no

Use libvirtd/Qemu on Linux and Hyper-V on Windows

Why?

They probably assume you are running something like Windows 7

I would Honestly just set your user agent to Windows. It is good for privacy and is the default for Librewolf.

Realistically you shouldn’t depend on a single place for backups

Remember 3-2-1. Three places, two mediums and one offsite

Those are Apples and Oranges

It is ok to admit you are wrong. Fedora wasn’t always the project it is today and at one point it was purely for testing. I get the impression that you’ve either never used Fedora or haven’t used it in a very long time.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/

Not everyone needs the latest stable of everything. That’s ok but I also didn’t just list Fedora. It is just a option to consider if you want a up to date system that’s well tested.

Have you even used Fedora recently? It is well tested and focused on being beginner friendly. That wasn’t always the case but it changed a few years ago.

Fedora better than Ubuntu in a lot of ways

Also with Fedora 42 there is a entirely new installer so it is much easier to setup.

The trade off with Fedora is that has a support window of only a year

There are also Rocky and Alma

I honestly would use a headless Linux system with docker compose. You can find premade docker compose files.

Anything but Ubuntu for the most part

Mint, Fedora, Rocky or whatever else