I remember every parody saying Weird Al, and online campaigns to have people label things "Not Weird Al" so it would still come up in searches but people would know it wasn't actually Weird Al.
I think Bazzite is a good distro for a beginner wanting specifically something to game on, but going for something common works too. I probably wouldn't suggested Ubuntu to anyone these days but you can't deny the long history of forum posts that come up whenever you search your problem.
Also, if op managed to get the Bluetooth mouse going there is no reason why his Bluetooth keyboard is not working.
It's a nice thought, but his mouse is working and his keyboard is not, that's why he's asking.
Bazzite is a fine pick for someone who just wants to game. It is immutable so much lower chance of screwing up the system, and is based on Fedora Silverblue.
As I understand it, Endeavour is explicitly not for new users and instead is recommended as a new step for someone already familiar with a more beginner friendly distro?
I think I tried this when troubleshooting and didn't notice a difference. Nevermind, I pretty easily taught her how to bring up the menu and switch audio streams so she can solve it herself now.
I set up Jellyfin on my mother-in-law's TV, it's just push play.
My mum has an Apple TV (the device, not the subscription) and on there she uses swiftfin. The only issue has been sound not working on certain audio tracks on certain movies, but in general it is easy for anyone.
Both are very familiar interfaces for anyone used to playing something from a streaming service.
I highly recommend spinning up a Nextcloud AIO instance. It's the recommended and supported method, and it will likely run a lot nicer because all the database, redis, etc tweaking are done for you in a known good setup.
If you try that and it's still no good, then OCIS might be worth trying depending on exactly what you are trying to achieve.
I'm also here on AIO with a great experience. It's snappy and the website loads faster than Onedrive ever did.
I had a docker install prior to AIO being available, and there was a lot of tweaking to get it running nicely (though it did run nicely). AIO takes care of it all for you.
Others might have suggestions. I run everyhting in docker. I then use Traefik as the reverse proxy in docker, where you add labels to the containers you want it to handle and it works things out on it's own. I have also configured it to do certificates automatically, including automatic domain validation using a Cloudflare API.
Caddy and Nginx Proxy Manager are other popular ones that can configure HTTPS certificates for you.
You don't have to overthink it. Choose a reverse proxy you like. If it does automatic certificates, that's great. If not, Let's Encypt (which most of these services use for the free certificates) have a certbot program you install and run on a cronjob to renew certificates.
Owncloud Infinite Scale was a rewrite of the codebase to get away from PHP. In theory this should be better able to run on lower end hardware. People tend to say they use it if they are only wanting the file part and not all the apps. Personally I use Nextcloud because I want the apps.
Automatic certificate renewal is built into many reverse proxies, and can be done for free, so I don't see a reason not to do it.
Nextcloud has federation of some features so I'd guess that would be a key reason you can't change the domain (you also can't change a Lemmy domain once set up). However, you're using it for file sync for yourself, right? Regardless of what you pick (even Nextcloud), you could surely just set up a new instance under the new domain then move all your files over.
OwnCloud Infinite Scale might be the option you missed?
Nextcloud was forked from the PHP Owncloud some years back, and they added all the apps and things. But Owncloud is like Nextcloud but focused only on the files.
I am a bit concerned that you're talking about not wanting HTTPS and see it as a bad thing that something requires it. Given you can get free certificates these days, why would you not want a secure connection? Even if you're accessing via a VPN to server tunnel, I see no reason not to have it.
I'm more of a cargo cult cooker. I blend bits copied from different recipes even if I'm not quite sure how they fit together or what the purpose of the ingredients is.
I'm sure you have a backup and that you've tested restoring it. Just have another machine that is available in the case something happens to the first.
E.g. I somehow fried the motherboard of my server while cleaning it. It took me days to troubleshoot the issue.
But I also have an old laptop strapped to the back of my TV that is used to stream media using Kodi. When this event happened, I installed a more appropriate OS on the TV laptop and restored my backup and was up and running in an hour or two. Then I could take the time to troubleshoot my issue and resolve it on my main server.
So testing on animals?