The ones that support Wi-Fi use crap chipsets that don't work without proprietary software, but otherwise they seem free from degeneracy like ThreadX running on the GPU that's actually controlling everything.
Some of the SBC's have unfinished software, some seem mostly complete (the wiki documents any issues with the devices).
Or you can just get whatever cheap Chinese SBC and it'll probably somewhat work.
Something that isn't systemd/Linux and transmission should be lighter tbh.
>the option to stream stuff to other devices is a plus If you mean streaming files over HTTP or sshfs, that'll work just fine, but it won't be able to do realtime re-encoding.
It may be easier to find a cheap used AMD64 NUC locally, install a free distro as normally and then install qbittorrent tbh.
@Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com I wanna use it with ethernet so wifi is not needed at all. I just wanna install debian and run qbittorrent on it to use remotely from a browser, the option to stream stuff to other devices is a plus. I'm a bit ignorant and I wouldn't know how much juice that would take, do you think anything there would suffice?