my opinion: it’s not stealing in the Classic sense because if you copy something you don’t take it away from its owner. it might be against the law because intellectual property is a concept.

inaccurate. I don’t own a suit or an impressive jawline although I am using fedora

too big but that doesnt invalidate using linux instead of Windows

until you can no longer log on with just a local Account. or your Data gets backed up for you anyway. Enshittification is one exec decision away

matrix should cover everything you need with the added bonus that you can chat with people from other instances

you could try mailu. that should be simple and Provide you with everything You need

use haproxy instead of Port forwards, that should work just fine and works really well on opnsense

debian. stable, reliable, easy to learn