"miniPC - OS Test"
Installed Almalinux 9 with no issues. All hardware detected and working. Browsing performance was adequate and YouTube streamed with no issues. I installed the Steam client and then installed Dota 2.
Dota 2 performance was not great, it was playable but there were flickering patches of graphics.
Installed the XFCE version of Manjaro. It is based off Archlinux so most of the packages are of recent releases. Again, no issues with hardware, web browsing or YouTube browsing. However Dota 2 still had the flickering graphics and not very smooth performance.
Installed MX Linux "ahs"" (XFCE). It is based off Debian stable with a 6.6 kernel . It performed well on browsing and video streaming. But there were multiple issues with Dota 2, occasionally it will load with no sound, the game may crash and quit and there was still some flickering graphics.
Installed Fedora Workstation 40. It is using the Gnome Desktop, no issues with web browsing and video streaming. Dota 2 is playable with occasionally no sound issue and crashes. Minimal graphic flickering.
Installed Clear Linux* Project. This Linux distribution had Intel optimization for performance improvement. Web browsing and video streaming was fine. For Dota 2, it will always launch and lockup the system. This happened repeatedly.
Installed Pop!_Os by System76. It is based on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with various kernel optimization. This version uses the Gnome Desktop. The Cosmic Desktop version (Alpha 3) installed fine but it could not boot to desktop.
Pop!_Os has very good performance and no issues running Dota 2. This is a very nicely integrated Desktop and works very well.
Some hardware details from inxi
Network: Device-1: Intel Wireless 7265 driver: iwlwifi Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet driver: r8169 Device-3: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb
Graphics: Device-1: Intel JasperLake [UHD Graphics] driver: i915 v: kernel Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1280~60Hz OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics (JSL) v: 4.6 Mesa 24.0.3-1pop1~1711635559~22.04~7a9f319
CPU: Info: quad core model: Intel Celeron N5105 bits: 64 type: MCP cache: L2: 1.5 MiB Speed (MHz): avg: 2800 min/max: 800/2900 cores: 1: 2800 2: 2800 3: 2800 4: 2800