For most of them you can get 720p on Linux with basic stereo audio.
It was possible to play Netflix 1080p on Chrome, but I think those days are gone.
Unfortunately, I don't see a user-controlled Linux system ever being properly supported in the current DRM / copyright paradigm. There isn't really a solution that satisfies the "rights holders", and even if there were, there is little to no incentive to implement it.
Follow up: this is the calculator I use on Linux. I didn't realize it had Windows builds available.
I'm guessing that pfBlockerNG is using the IPInfo database to query what IPs the ASNs own, so I think it would be required. ASNs are not static, so it wouldn't make sense to ship a database of them, it would immediately be outdated.
I would check out Lapce and CudaText. They are both solid editors. If you are comfortable in the terminal, then nvim as well, of course.
cudatext as a notepad replacement. It's closer to a full featured text editor, but is very quick to startup with no extensions installed.
I have no idea about replacing paint, but irfanview for simple viewing, cropping, resizing, swapping formats, etc.
For calculator stuff I sometimes just open the Python REPL. If you know the language (even a little bit) it does all the things and more. Every time I try to use the Windows calculator it annoys me trying to find the right button and them accidently putting another operator instead of equal or vice versa.
Like many others, I switched to Jellyfin years ago. It is way, way better for me. It does what it says on the tin, sometimes more, but not less.
I wrote this little webapp thing some time ago. It's not exactly what you asked for but is a good example.
All it does is base64 encode a link and adds the server url in front of it. When someone visits that link it will redirect them to the destination. The intent is to bypass simple link tracking / blocking in discord and other platforms.
There are also checks for known bad domains and an attempt to remove known tracking query parameters.
https://git.tsps-express.xyz/liliumstar/redir
Edit: I forgot to add it also blocks known crawlers (at least at time of writing) so that they can't just follow the 302 and figure out where it goes.
That is a good idea. Think I have done that before but it's been so long I forgot. These days I just have one windows machine that runs on separate hardware. Keeps everything isolated.
Really any distro should be fine. It's more a matter of getting the bootloader setup correctly.
Do note that, depending on the configuration, Windows will randomly overwrite stuff and mess up dual boot.
If you can for your situation, I would suggest running a Windows VM inside Linux to get certain tasks done.
I've had pretty good experience with this. For the most part installing with Lutris and pointing it to the correct exe works. Generally games will not run due to actual compatability issues.
The real pain point is trying to install mods on certain engines/games where the modders assume a windows environment. Sometimes they ship precompiled binaries that will only work under specific conditions and it's hard to debug.
Yeah they basically block all non-residential IPs now. Has been a thing for a while, about since they started selling their dataset for ML training.
Reading through the info on the main page is concerning. It sounds like AI slop, or someone writing in that style. No developer writes like that about their project.
If it actually does all the things it says, great. Let me know.