I also have a MS Surface I'd love to put Linux on, but from my last research it needs a custom kernel to work.

I had a similar setup (Endeavour OS + 3080). While most daily tasks worked fine I had some large annoyances.

• Monitor Sleep would sometimes prevent VRR from working afterwards
• Actual sleep would sometimes force me to reconnect my second monitor.
• Hybernation was completely broken
• VRAM swapping does not work at all, leading to stuttering instead of simply degraded performance.

I am sure I missed some more minor ones, but there were the main reasons I got an AMD card

I know that our Electric stovetop is connected to the 400v Three Phase circuit.

So even with 240v mains power the Stove is usually connected to a circuit with the highest available power.

But even the 240v plug in induction stovetops have plenty power for cooking.

My Arch install yesterday:

That's a nice Kernel you have there, it would be a shame if something happened to it.

It somehow deleted the old kernel image from the boot partition but failed to write the new one (and I didn't notice before rebooting).

I needed to rebuild the kernel via chroot from a live USB.

It does support it, you just have to add it to dnsmasq. I have it Setup under misc.dnsmasq_lines like so:

address=/proxy.example.com/192.0.0.100
local=/proxy.example.com/

Then I have my proxied service reachable under service.proxy.example.com

Let's not forget the biggest issue, mandatory Apps that don't work.

I know of a few Banks that require you to use their app for online banking or as 2fa for online banking. Some of these don't even work while the bootloader is unlocked

They know it exists, they are just very understaffed so don't have time getting more complex things set up.

At least the devs get to have Linux if they can fix their own problems, but no more new non Mac Hardware...

The It department told me the reason that they don't support Linux is the lack of good endpoint management software and the support overhead compared to MacOs

The Pi 4 is massively overpowered for a PiHole, but if you got one laying around doing nothing, go for it.

I have my PiHole running on a Pi Zero with a USB Ethernet adapter. The WebUi is a bit slow, but the actual DNS with unbound as a backend isn't any slower than on a Pi 4.

With the same setup I had constant issues with Variable Refresh Rate, monitor sleep and actual sleep...

Nvidia on Linux did not want to work well for me