Which is a perfect proxy for me.

Agreed, as long as you handle the HTTPS or VPN setup, and set up any automatic media downloading ( jellyseer, sonarr and radarr and jackett) the end product is certifiably wife approved and works nicely out of the box

Russia's invasion of Ukraine made me realize the fundamental wisdom of the saying "Speak softly and carry a big stick".

inb4 zoomers unironically want this

My justification: nobody has stopped me yet🤷

Other people's computers. Never forget.

What else did you expect from Microsoft Linux? They've been taking notes from the best for some time now.

For distros I've been mainly looking at Manjaro, Linux Mint or plain old Ubuntu. Can you recommend anything that might fit for me or will I maybe run into any issues with my chosen three?

Like others I would caution against Manjaro, the distro maintainers have shown on multiple occasions that they are not exactly on top of it all.

Ubuntu derivatives are typically great works-out-of-the-box distros. Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) has made a number of questionable moves with Ubuntu over the years so I would rather suggest going for Linux Mint instead. Mint is based on Ubuntu but IMHO fixes most of these issues.

My main concerns for switching are that I'll have a hard time with university work because we mostly use teams for video conferences and work together with word, and other office stuff.

Since Microsoft Teams is an electron app, it works very well as a web app in a chromium-based browser like Brave or chromium itself, there's no real need to install any separate app. I use it daily that way and I have no issues either with screen sharing, videoconferencing or chat.

Microsoft office is a tougher nut. LibreOffice may or may not work for you - there's a good chance it won't be 100% compatible with existing office documents, and may for example slightly change pre-existing formatting. If that doesn't matter to you, LibreOffice could be completely fine as a replacement. Otherwise, Microsoft Office 365 in the browser works as well on Linux as on Windows, maybe try if that is a workable solution for you in most cases. I find that for me, the web version goes 95% of the way, and for the last 5% I keep a windows 10 VM with Office installed around.

We also are required to do some virtual machine stuff where we use virtualbox.

The de facto standard virtualization solution on Linux is KVM/QEMU, but Virtualbox does appear to exist for Linux, so I don't see a blocker there.

Also I'm a bit worried that some games on uplay, epic and other platforms aren't available anymore.

I don't play much, but I don't think there's a good solution to that. Setting up non-Steam gaming setups on Linux (e.g. via Bottles or Lutris) is IMHO finicky at best. Also, AFAIK a number of online multiplayer games don't work simply because the DRM software refuses to work on Linux. You can check ProtonDB for a database of games and their support on Linux. If there are blockers there, maybe consider a dual-boot setup.

So I guess the concept of "death" is now politically incorrect, huh. What a time to be alive.

The fact that you call it a civil war is all we need to know.

edit: my bad, looking at your home instance would have been an even better way of immediately knowing you're full of shit.

edit2: and yes, I am fully aware that both Taiwan and the PRC officially view themselves as the legitimate government of the whole of China but it's pretty fucking clear that in practice they are separate countries to anyone who is not snorting red propaganda like a champ.

Docker containers usually have a negligible performance overhead compared to bare metal. Certainly it won't make or break jellyfin usability whether it is running in a container or not.

Some further advantages in addition to the ones you mentioned:

• trivially easy to up and downgrade versions (in case of a broken release for example)
• nearly 0 chance of incompatibilities stemming from your other installed packages or versions
• If your server is open to the public internet and you get hacked due to a flaw in jellyfin, any attacker finds himself inside the container. One typically mounts all media as read only into the container - so at that point all they can do is mess with your playback history and steal your home videos but a ransomware attack against your actual data is off the table.

edit: obviously you should still practice good security practices like requiring HTTPS, geoblocking etc. if you are open to the internet. Luckily there's a fantastic container which pairs perfectly with the (imho preferrable) linuxserver/jellyfin container which provides this: linuxserver/swag. Just FYI

I'll start watching sports when there's coked up cyborgs competing for who can stave off graft rejection for long enough to cross the finish line, thank you very much

/s but not really