Last time I looked into Chuwi, there was a lively linux wiki/forum somewhere on their website. There may be clues there and maybe an opportunity to ask a question to their engineers (unofficially, of course).

There’s also https://linux-hardware.org/ which might have something.

Just mount the ‘remote’ file system via NFS (or samba, if you must) and play the media on the ‘local’ machine as if it were a local file. Done. What am I missing?

Maybe https://github.com/ammen99/wf-recorder

If you’re in the US, refurbished thinkpads are probably the best option. Not so much here in Australia (but you mentioned GBP so perhaps you’re in UK). Whatever. I bought a refurb Dell Latitude 3120 for AU$229

mfg yr 2021 Intel® Pentium® Silver N6000 @ 1.10GHz 8Gb RAM Intel UHD graphics Intel Wi-Fi 5 9560 (160 MHz) Bluetooth 5.0 Display: 1366 x 768 11.6" touchscreen 2-in-1 Disc: M.2 256Gb PCIe NVME Class 35 SSD 1.35kg

Runs voidlinux like it was born to it. It’s my travel laptop.

It’s probably more to do with hardware than distro. That said, using major distros is more likely to win. FWIW I’ve used fedora and voidlinux on my 3 Dell laptops over the last 12 years with nary a problem. One of them had nvidia but I used nouveau.

voidlinux still has the 390 drivers available. I’m sure others do too:

[-] nvidia390-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - Libraries and Utilities [-] nvidia390-dkms-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - DKMS kernel module [-] nvidia390-gtklibs-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - GTK+ libraries [-] nvidia390-libs-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - common libraries [-] nvidia390-opencl-390.157_6 NVIDIA drivers (GeForce 400, 500 series) - OpenCL implementation

Almost anything plus mythtv, firefox, transmission and mpv. Done. I use voidlinux. Best ever.

I’ve been saying this for 30+ years, but no-one wanted to listen.

Wow! acronym soup. I understand almost none of that.

Thanks (to all the authors) for your hard work and contributions.

so just use chatgpt or gemini - pretty sure they sucked in all of reddit to form their KB

So he’s a journalist </s> Thanks for the warning, saved me a read.

You can’t avoid IBM/RedHat - they contribute to the kernel and many, many other parts of Linux eg systemd. I have no idea what you mean by DIY distros, what a peculiar adjective in this context. Linux itself is DIY. Life is DIY.

That said, voidlinux is an independent distro without systemd or snaps based on runit for init and xbps for package management. It’s also a STABLE rolling release.

Can’t believe no-one mentioned voidlinux yet. It’s very tasty.

I daresay there’s a way to do something like this with fzf