Peter Benson wrote:Which "other" thread should such pertinent Linux distro-variant questions be moved to though -- would you or someone in-the-know kindly link us to it here, please?
I think the discussion got off-topic towards "Which Linux distribution is best for...", so a better place to ask might be
https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/ for example; the help says:
"Software Recommendations Stack Exchange
What topics can I ask about here?
This site is for questions asking for recommendations of software ready-to-use to accomplish a particular task, that is, “what software can I use to do …?”."