Pi-hole DNS and dhcp + home assistant and a bunch of other related containers.

Opensuse tw

I’d say go with kde as you DE. Personally I like opensuse tumbleweed.

Opensuse gives a lot of „windows like“ features like control panel etc.

This looks like shit

No.

Actually I was able to change root into the installation now, but when I run grub2-install, I get EFI var errors, I kinda feel like giving up at this point haha.

What’s wrong with spring security?

Just out of curiosity, why do you find debugging in spring a huge PITA? Also what do you mean by conflicting config paradigms?

Genuinely curious.

This happens to me all the time, any fixes?

I think it’s because I have Windows and Linux on separate drives.