yeah this shit doesn't just happen in a vacuum. the last big fascism thing was in Europe with almost all (if not all) countries in the Axis powers being fascist.
I used it a little way back in 2005-2006ish, and decided to give it a try again after a third reinstall of ubuntu within a year last year.
though, I'm about to get a "new" laptop and may toy around with Arch on the old one. I had previously tried setting up Arch in a VM but that's not supported and ended poorly.
I don't know about everyone else, but the last couple of years has had the most unstable Ubuntu releases, with the most unrecoverable releases when issues happen.
I've since moved to Fedora for desktop and straight Debian for server.
for Jellyfin specifically, get yourself a cheap x86_64 PC and cheap or used graphics card. (or a cpu with integrated graphics)
for example, my jellyfin is running on an AMD FX-6xxx processor and a GTX 670 just fine.
the raspberry pi will work for Jellyfin as long as you don't have any transcoding to do, but the minute you need transcoding you'll need a GPU or good encoder/decoder chip.
don't burn the sun with it either apparently