I like TrueNAS Scale. If you don’t mind paying for a server OS and parts of it being proprietary, check out Unraid.

Debian if you are new to Linux servers and self-hosting. Alpine if you get more advanced and just want something very light-weight and minimal.

I use ruTorrent, pretty happy with it

If you use iOS, you have no other option. But on Android I would recommend just using the system Private DNS (DoT) instead.

Is your device supported by DivestOS? https://divestos.org/pages/devices

When using the network-wide VPN configuration of my firewall, I also use OPNSense to enforce that all devices connect to my self-hosted Pi-Hole, including redirecting DNS packets that are sent to DNS servers other than my Pi-Hole IP. There’s a pretty cool guide for this: https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=9245.0

When running a VPN client on a device, I just use the VPN to manage DNS settings.
Both Mullvad and IVPN have very solid DNS settings within their desktop clients. Proton VPN unfortunately lacks behind in this regard. That’s why I never use any Proton VPN clients on desktop, and rely on OPNSense, if I want to use Proton.

Can’t say that I’m surprised

• Molly
• Mull, hardened Firefox
• Element X
• Breezy Weather
• AntennaPod
• Droid-ify
• Clock You
• Read You for RSS
• Translate You
• LibreTube for YouTube
• Moshidon
• Thunder
• InnerTune for YouTube Music
• Seal/YTDLnis for downloading videos
• LibreTorrent for downloading torrents
• Transdroid for managing my ruTorrent running on my seedbox
• LinkSheet
• Xtra for Twitch
• Material Files
• Standard Notes
• Quillpad
• Tasks.org
• EteSync
• Nextcloud
• NeoStumbler
• ntfy

Isn’t it deprecated?

There was a KDE edition?!??