I wouldnt do it so ether

I am also thinking about hosting my own but that outch

Yea i can understand this

You could also try to convert and install the .deb or .rpm packages see here as reverence

Or maybe use distrobox if this doesn’t work. Pretty much anything is better than chrome

Yea it would run on it linke any other distro, but you wouldn’t be able to multi task. I reasently installed Debian 32bit on an lenovo ideapead from 2013 with a 1 core 2 threads at 1.2ghz, 2G of ram and a HDD it runs KDE Plasma and will load anything as your pations are strong enough

But you could also run Alpine it will probably use less ram then debian. But I am farmiliar with apt, systemd and gnu software so yea. It is easier for me to give it to my small step sis as a research device with Firefox. I think Debian with KDE plasma uses about 630MB and with xfce around 300-400MB. But I think she is better of with KDE as she primary uses windows in school and it looks more like it

So on their github are appimages, .rpm and .deb available. Idk if you can convert .deb or .rpm files to alpine compatible packages but the appimage should run eververe

I would recommend using librewolf thorium for normal task and if the site doesnt work with it i use thorium. Librewolf is slower than thorium but it is for me the better default version of Firefox. Loading yt is really slow with librewolf so I use freetube or invidious to watch content.

Ah yes a “special military operation”

I didn’t knew anything about him this is truely sad to hear

I don’t know how you can use stock GNOME I find it really ugly

My recommendations as extentions would be

Dash to dock Blur by shell Gsconnect

Many use syncthing to sync their keepass files I personally just use my nextcloud

It exist a spin of fedora and ubuntu with a KDE desktop but you could just install KDE on you existing ubuntu desktop https://itsfoss.com/install-kde-on-ubuntu/

Where can I find this awsome Minecraft launcher

If you want to try you also can use hyprland as a stacking window compositor it is really clean. The one thing I would say is clunky is the configuration around hyprland xdg-desktop-portals are just a mess

You also can use swww it also support animations and gifs