I had a beelink ser5, and without giving you the bench marks, I can tell you that many games that were unplayable on cinnamon or kde, did work in openbox. I would log out and back into that DE just to play games.

Just my observation. I have upgraded my PC so I haven’t needed to repeat that with my new one.

Having tried many, I found that the desktop environments matter more than the actual OS, especially on older machines.

Going for something really light, like openbox, lxde, or xfce, caused less frame rate drop and stuttering. At least on my lower powered mini pc.

Honorary mentions to:

Ubuntu Christian Edition

Ubuntu Satanic Edition

And

Hannah Montana Linux

It’s certainly older but Revolution OS is pretty thorough.

Seconded LMDE. Super stable, polished, and intuitive.

Yeah that beats a t shirt. That filled with a pint of fresh local brew sounds heavenly.

WHAA? They made mugs. That so cool. I wanna see.

I’ve got 2. One I’ve worn and one that I never have. The worn one I’ve only wore a handful of times because, even then, I knew it would never be replicated.

I have bought accessories from them, like wifi dongles and USB sticks. They’re great and have worked flawlessly for awhile. I cannot arrest to their more complex stuff though. I’ve always been curious.

My top 3:

1. RimWorld

2. Skyrim

3. No Man’s Sky

I really like Aves Libre.

IF you have the space, go for a projector. I got a nice short throw 1080 Benq with a decent 120 inch screen. And wow, it’s incredible. It’s amazing for shows, movies, and games. I paid 800 total for everything. There’s everything from 200 dollar to 5k dollars, depending on what quality you want.