not really wireguard hits ARM CPU’s hard. you can also get n95/n100 mini PC’s as well for around the price of a Orange Pi 5 and use Intel’s awesome encoder for jellyfin.
Using Mate, Variable refresh rate VRR, Wayland for Multi Monitor as Xorg is 99% Broken with Multi Monitor, and HDR/Color Profiles.
Mate i had far less issues with it.
A cheap 4k Android TV stick is much better or a $100 Intel n100 PC.
Some of the newer Samsung Drives have bad firmware.
LMDE is 100% using Debian packages for the core OS if you want a newer Thunderbird go to flathub.
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You can do dumb stuff with Rust as well.
I run Debian with ZFS the package is in the repo’s.
They care about OEM’s and Business using it not a few Gamer’s
Mate has some Wayland support just the development died down.
Try Fedora I have been using “Fedora 38 Budgie” with a AMD Ryzen 5 7530U it has been great about 12-15 watts playing music, and web browsing. it is around 40 watts with GtkStressTesting.