I use Linux Mint, mostly because I'm familiar with it. If I was to redo it, I would likely just run Debian.
Kolgeirr
Vampire Survivors is basically mandatory at this point.
It works, but deck needs to be on. I just pulled a Grim Dawn install from my deck to my desktop PC on Tuesday.
Dunno if it's been delisted since, but I installed it on all my Rokus and Roku TVs a few weeks back without issue.
I've been playing Sea of Stars on it lately, a great modern take on the classic JRPG format which works great on the deck.
NoMachine has Android and Windows clients.
I use NoMachine between windows and Linux and I'm happy with it. According to their site they support MacOS.
I also try and ignore energy costs and prevent ewaste: my home server is my three builds back gaming PC with a lower power GPU shoved into it. Whenever I build a new main gaming PC my old one becomes my wife's gaming PC, and her old PC is rebuilt into the home server.
Nah. My older 1080p stuff remains, but I just do 4k only now. Media server is powerful enough to transcode to 1080 on the fly for any device that can't handle 4k, or for slower network conditions.