Ive switched to running syncthing inside termux. Battery life has actually improved significantly. You need to manually start syncthing after a reboot though. There’s probably a way to start it automatically using scripts or an automation app.
Check out Termux and running it inside the termux terminal. It’s the same package as what you’d get from apt and battery life has actually been better compared to the android fork. Need to manually start it after a reboot though.
There was no mention of this, but if you’re dual booting (which I don’t recommend to anyone anymore) that might be causing the Bluetooth issue. Windows doesn’t properly “let go” of some Hardware when you “shut down” with default settings. This is because the default settings are to hibernate instead of properly shutting down. Linux boots up and the hardware doesn’t load correctly.
I’m a fan of the uBlue distros Bazzite (gaming), Aurora (KDE), and Bluefin (Gnome and software devs). Other than that, Mint, Fedora, or Pop beta if you want to try the new Cosmic desktop
Question, do you have a gaming desktop? Could you just get a less powerful laptop and use sunshine and moonlight?
A bit more setup is required but I love having a Wise (formerly TransferWise) account for the virtual cards and the low fee currency conversion.
Might need to search around for exact commands but the main thing is you’ll need the fdroid or source apk of termux for this to work from what I remember. So setup termux up on Obtainium or fdroid. Then inside termux
pkg install syncthingshould work. You might need to run the storage scripts found here https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Internal_and_external_storage You can move over your existing syncthing exported config files (remove encryption first before exporting) to~/.local/state/syncthingand edit the config.xml file. Remove the lines for username and password. This will allow you to create a new username and password when you runsyncthingin termux. It should open a browser window tohttp://127.0.0.1:8384/which is the normal syncthing web interface.