My cat goes up there all the time. He usually jumps down to the counter and then to the floor, but I’ve seen him leap straight to the floor before

Yeah, some of it may not be as easy on Linux, but I think the question was just if it’s possible or not

Most if not all of these seem very easily done on windows. You can create scripts as you like and set up environment variables like vlc. Control of updates I’m not so sure about, I haven’t messed with it I just let it auto update.