(Aka make KRDP actually work)

You mean KRDC & KRFB? I’ve used them almost exclusively for my Remote Desktop needs, mostly without issues.

Any VNC software should work with KRDC.

Software has gone many decades without the need of LLM assistance, I vote to tag “Ai” and “Non-Ai” assisted posts.

+1

What distro are you using?

Debian quite literally calls the package “dolphin” so running this command will purge it and reinstall it;

sudo apt purge dolphin; sudo apt install dolphin -y

I know the Windows version has issues updating folders live, but on my Debian machine have not encountered such issue.

Alternatively you can purge KDE itself and reinstall everything.

sudo apt purge *kde*; sudo apt install kde-full kde-standard kde-plasma-desktop task-kde-desktop sddm -y

Yup my bad, I have striked it out of my previous comment.

Even if I was buying a Steam Machine, I would still just use Bazzite.

They both run Arch, both are capable of running KDE & Gnome DE, both are immutable but only one will get dedicated support from the manufacturer and developer.

The use of HDMI CEC is not typical for desktop environments, I doubt you’ll get the same “sleep” functionality on Bazzite.

I can really only recommend what the Invidious developers recommend, unfortunately some instance admins have chosen to disable their public APi to prevent abuse or (in my scenario) have restricted their instance to certain geolocations.

If you have a Canadian IP I don’t mind letting people leech off of my instance, shoot me a DM and I’ll give you my domain.

Depending on your configuration your experience will differ greatly.

As mentioned in another comment I made, Freetube relies heavily on either directly connecting to YouTube’s API or proxying through an Invidious instance, perhaps try a different Invidious instance, but in my case Freetube + Invidious works 9 times out of 10 for me.

There are two ways of using Freetube, either with YouTube’s APi or with Invidious’s APi.

When using YouTube’s APi you won’t get the same ad-blocking and proxying benefits compared to Invidious’s API.

One bonus of using Invidious is that your traffic is combined with everyone else’s who use that same instance, for example if you use https://inv.nadeko.net/ your traffic will be masked along side everyone else’s who happens to use that same instance making it harder for big corporations to track you, in this case Google.

Freetube + Invidious