Update: no luck. I tried with every level of stealing focus prevention, but after a few hours Kodi it’s still losing focus. Guess I’ll stick with X11 for the time being.

No, but I will give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

Xbian uses upstart

Go with Mint, it’s my daily drive on both my laptop and HTPC. If you choose the regular edition Ubuntu based you have also hardware enablement (hwe) kernels which could be useful on newer hardware.

Rock64 had 4GB max

Pretty standard with Mexican manufacturing plants

You could have just done a little search https://orgmode.org/