Mint works well on my Thinkpads

Debian

I’ve never done it so I can’t say for certain.

I typically buy purpose built routers which advertise routing speed benchmarks

It’ll be hard to find one at that price. You may find something with a 2.5G NIC but whether or not it will actually route at line speed is highly unlikely.

Your best bet to keep prices low is to add a 2.5G NIC to an old PC. Even that may not work

Markor on Android and Obsidian on Desktop.

All synced with syncthing

Look at Mikrotik. Very affordable and extremely powerful. Only do this though if you know what you are doing with networking

All my devices use Syncthing via Tailscale to get my data to my server.

From there, my server backs up nightly to rsync.net via BorgBackup.

I then have Zabbix monitoring my backups to make sure a daily is always uploaded.

Brother works incredibly well. Plug and play

I doubt big business will switch. Most customers of RHEL don’t care if the general public has easy access to the source code. (I am assuming)

I think what we might see is small business using CentOS, Rocky, Alma etc, switch to Debian. Since they didn’t have commercial support, Debian will be the same. Since they will no longer be clones of RHEL there is little incentive to use them

Linux Mint is what I use and have no issues with my 3070.

Chimera OS might be something you can look into however I have not used it

Pop OS is also great for nvidia support

I don’t know of any cheap options that include 2x SFP Ports.

Mikrotik has the RB5009 if you can live with only one.

I love my CCR2004-16G-2S+