Inkscape works well for this.

The fault was a driver, so if the faulty driver loaded at boot the machine would bsod again. If the machine got network before the driver loaded there was a chance that it could download and install the fixed driver

Hard to roll back when you’re stuck in a boot loop

You’d probably be better off picking a normal distro and then running QEMU to run Windows or other VMs. Proxmox is more comparable to VMware ESXi in that it is designed for running server VMs and managed through a web ui.

When you say you want to use proxmox as your daily driver, what sort of things are you wanting to do with it? Are you going to be spending most of your time inside a WM, and want to be able to switch to a different VM? I’m struggling to see your use case.

Yes, Picard should be able to add the tag, flac support is great

Depending on which format your music is in you can store a star rating in the metadata of the file.

This sounds like a job for a raspberry pi 5 with an m.2 hat for storage, software is a less important choice here, so ubuntu’s raspberry pi flavour would be my choice. Just make sure you give it power in a form it likes.

Jellyfin has ebook support and allows you to download them for offline reading, which I reccommend because the ebook viewer is very basic

Are you able to change the ip address of your current router?

As far as I’m aware this is only for the cli version of ffmpeg and won’t affect the threading of codecs many of which were already multithreaded.

I wouldn’t recommend running them on the same device, mostly because you’ll want everything to be sitting behind openwrt as your firewall.

With some servos and a thermometer you could automate mixing the correct temperature and turning the taps off; the future is now