How to build a Linux home office server for creative work

I know, creative work is messy! Digital Post-its everywhere! Files multiply like gremlins! Versions drift. You save something as “final” then “final-final” then “FINAL_FOR_REAL_THIS_TIME!!!” We all know that’s not the final. At some point, a cloud service helpfully syncs the wrong thing, and you’ll spend the next twenty minutes whispering threats, hopefully not in binary, at a progress bar. A Linux home office server exists to stop this nonsense.