Are they ad-free and open source?

kid named nixos-infect:

sublingual + high level might just be the timing: you did your test during a peak. sublingual peaks can fall rather fast, though. i would recommend patches or injection for monotherapy.

none of these applications require particularly low latency, so if you're on Pipewire, you can increase both min, max and default quantum to something like [1024, 4096]. i have to do this on my N100 laptop and it helps a lot.

pw-top tells you which app uses which quantum too, and often times, your machine will slightly struggle with apps that suddenly demand lower quantums and cause stuttering. increasing the min quantum fixes this issue.

If you use Caddy with ACME DNS, all of this can be automated.

If you also use Cloudflare, you can do that + traffic routing with cloudflared without any need for port forwarding .

You can use something like virt-manager to mount your USB as a hard drive within the VM then install it from an ISO file.

I would recommend something like Tiny11 for this, but make sure to install the appropriate drivers for your hardware first (or at least have the installers ready for when you reboot).