Debian
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
Personally, I'm fine with the Ubuntu base. Canonical does a great job.
I feel Mint takes an already great distro and makes it way better.
I've used LMDE and it works well but keeping a Ubuntu base means we can reference soooo many Ubuntu based help forums.
If Mint is already removing the parts of Ubuntu we don't like then great, let them keep doing it π
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.
I 100% agree. The times where I need to watch a race late I need to avoid all social media.
At the very least, don't post the names of the winners in the post title
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
More ram π
Mint works well on my Thinkpads