Now this is security I can get behind! Err, in front of?

Hey! That’s my name too!

Sounds to me like you want an iPhone… There’s nothing wrong with that as long as you know what you’re getting into which it sounds like you do…

A project like GOS will never have that level of polish and it seems like that’s what you’re looking for…

While true for some games that require their online services. There’s nothing keeping you from downloading a game and backing up the install files on your own media to play later… A lot of games will run without steam open if you just run the executable…

As others have said, you should really be careful treating your RAID as a backup. I for one do all of my backing up on Playstation 1 memory cards… I had to buy a couple storage containers to store them all, but I guess that technically counts as off-site

My Synology NAS was running for 6+ years before I replaced it last year. And the only reason I replaced it was to upgrade the hardware to be able to act more like a home server running some more demanding services.

I’ve since given the NAS away to a friend who is still running it… As always back up your data just in case, but I wouldn’t expect the hardware to crap out on you too soon

Touch is just fine, and assuming you have multitouch there are good options for gesture controls

Not to scare you away, but I have experience getting Linux to run on a Surface Laptop 2 and… It’s not exactly the easiest process…

For my machine it required a custom kernel to get the touchpad and keyboard working and it just always had one quirk or another.

Highly recommend Linux, but those surface devices need some specialized drivers…