Lots of xfce distros. My favorite is Zorin Lite

AdNauseam is based on uBlock and does some extra stuff as well, in case anybody was curious. Link

If your NAS can handle virtual machines, that might be easier, and then set up your client device as a thin client. Check this video out. This guy’s whole channel is awesome.

Is this to replace your /home/$USER ? I’ve never done it with a symlink, but you could actually mount a samba share to the home directory with cifs-utils. A quick search will find you instructions, such as This one.

I think the only way to do this with better performance would be to use iSCSI, which requires a little more setup but would be the best in terms of reliability and speed.

Zorin is my fav.

Scan through some YouTube videos of each of these recommended distros and see which one you like the look of best; They are all good recommendations.

I’d like to throw Zorin in the pot, I use it on all my devices (and servers) since it’s just smooth and works without fuss or tinkering. There’s a Gnome version and an XFCE version, both are very nice. XFCE is a little lighter in weight of course, which you may like or need.