Gravitywell

You can use any DE you want on just about any distro you want

How do you mean they are spamming?

Mint is a good alterative. It has an xfce edition.

Using a live usb is the correct answer since compiling a custom initramfs would require one anyway and just add more steps… Not sure what gives you the impression using a liveusb is “more complicated” but its not.

Can you upgrade the desktop? What speed is your laptops WiFi?

I just use rsync manually until I have syncthig working but these don’t really solve slowdown issues and aren’t mounted. I would look into a better NIC and/or storage for the desktop or possibly your router.

Try using something like iperf to measure raw speed of the connection between your 2 systems, see if its what it should be (around 300-600mbps for wireless to wired locally) and try to narrow down where the bottleneck is.

Glad you found what you need. Ive never needed any browser plugins to use JDL2, it just works with copy and past and monitors your clipboard,

Jdownloader2 is the the best, I’ve not used anything else for years.

Use https://dockstarter.com

Follow https://trash-guides.info/Hardlinks/How-to-setup-for/Dockstarter/

I would also suggest prowlarr instead of jackett.

If that’s too hard then I think you should consider renting a seedbox that has easy one click install options for all the ARRs.

If you haven’t already tried it I would also highly recommend phind.com for troubleshooting or coding questions.

Also for a nice quick access to gpt from your terminal grab “tgpt” and you can ask questions directly from your terminal.

Have you tried macchanger? Also don’t disable network manager,.normally you should be able to change your Mac in network manager but it sounds like maybe you’re following a tutorial of some kind that might not be right.

I’ve been using Wayland since the end of last year, I haven’t done any real benchmarking but games run about the same for me on either.

Best you can probably do is have wallet prompt for an unlock password after statx each time then.

Easiest solution is to install a login manager like sddm, then it should “just work” on your login, startx doesnt do all the same things a proper DM would do.

You might be able to have wallet ask for your password just once after login using startx, or you might have an easier time using gnome -keyring, but either way I don’t think unlocking it with pam is an option for the startx method