Im a lazy mofo. I use fail2ban since SWAG has one built in.

Get a high capacity usb drive. Load ventoy and copy over all the linux distro you wish to try. There is no best distro, its all user preference.

For beginner, you can try linux mint, ubuntu, fedora etc

i turned it on mine. Running linux mint and windows 10 ltsc on seperate hard disk. Havent turn into any problem so far.

If you only need onedrive replacement. You might want to try seafile.

I like nextcloud tbh even it tries to do everything and not being really good at it. When i set it up the first time. I scoured the internet like you wouldnt believe. Took me couple of days optimizing it.

Now, it runs okay. Has been a few months since it set it up. No complain except a couple of weeks ago android app wont auto upload for some reason, had to logout and login back.

My main use is cloud storage, photos, note, task, contacts and calendar. Works fine on my android, linux and my wife’s iphone.

Are you using nginx proxy manager as reverse proxy? SWAG has one built in. I’d use that instead.

The reason most people still stick with windows/Macs. Current OS just works. I personally run mint, it works.

Before this i run windows 10 LTSC. The only reason i jump to mint is because it is almost the same as windows.

My bad. I run linux mint myself but i dont play games on it. I heard popos was great for gaming but glad to hear linux mint is great too.

Gmail as in email client? Thunderbird

Anti virus? Just need common sense. Dont visit shady site and download random executable

Windows? Try linux mint if this your first time. I heard PopOS is good if you play games.

My bad. Not my native language. Thanks though

Yeah. Stay in your lane microsoft.