I am a big fan of doing this kind of thing with promox! I run labwc and pipewire into apps!

Because I wanted the smoothest possible graphics while remoting into my VMs, I went full into lightweight/minimal wayland, which was frustrating at first but it's worth it.

I run it on my lenovo laptop as my mobile development machine and works great!

Even better for graphical smoothness, I discovered that my laptop supports GPU SR-IOV, which took some effort, but now my VMs can benefit from GPU pass through without losing my host display! I am most pleased with this more than any other customization I've done to my dev box.

The craziest thing is that I get more battery life RDP'ing into windows 11 on my local proxmox VM than I did when I ran it on the bare metal. Like 8-10 hours instead of 6-8 doing the same dev tasks.

Anyway, I am glad to meet a kindred spirit! Be well.