Why do you use transmission? Genuinely curious. The times I tried to use it, it seemed so basic and lacking functionality

Why Debian 12 specifically?

+1 for fedora here. In my experience, laptops don’t play great with Linux, but fedora has been very stable. Everything really “just works” on my laptop and it hasn’t been like that with other distros. It’s the only one I could actually recommend at this point.