Honestly after W11 went full retard I put Mint on an old laptop and use that as my TV's "streaming" box. Works great with the caveat that you never know what hardware works with Linux so test with a bootable live USB image before wiping your hard drive.
For me with a 5+ year old Dell Inspiron laptop the video, sound, wifi and USB drivers all worked out of the box which I was surprised by.
I use an old laptop running Mint as a streaming device. Set the thing in the A/V cabinet below the TV and control it with a wireless mini keyboard+trackpad. Works great and no spyware or tracking at all. And no ads if you run Brave as the browser.
I remember years back when an LG "smart" TV that my roommate had would crash our internet router. Found out using a packet sniffer that even though the TV wasn't configured to be connected to a network it would continually and rapidly try to connect to any available wifi connection in range. That pissed me off.
The point is that a lot of faggot lefties believe that the indians (feather, not dot) were Noble Savages living in an idyllic world of balance.
The reality was they were violent, tribalistic and greedy just like every other human society.
The fuck it isn't still a problem. If you shop carefully you can easily get a totally compatible system but there's still a ton of hardware (especially OEM specific hardware, doubly so for laptops) that has zero or limited compatibility.