So, you want a leader that does what they want, doesn’t listen to the majority, could well harm those around them with their actions?

I had manjaro on my 2012 MacBook for a while. It dual booted even. So I guess Arch?

I set up, many years ago, a RPI1 with USB cameras attached. Running the software “Motion”. I put Zerotier on it and made a little web page that shows the cameras. I could have the page show any USB cameras on my network, but I think the RPI1 is too low powered for more than two.

Motion will record, or only record when motion is detected and there’s a whole lot of options.

Mine is still running almost ten years later, with only a small upgrade to the cameras.