The fan on the RPi5 only comes on when necessary, it does come on at start up for a few seconds, that is normal.

Void/XFCE worked out of the box for me, only had to add Gnumeric & PySolFC, if I remember.

(Total install about 3GB on disk)

I'm just a (desktop) user, internet, videos, music, image viewing, spreadsheet work.

@Altoid

I'm an oldie too, & I upgrade my computers when MS Windows users sell their old kit because it can no longer support MS's latest offerings....

One of my older laptops is a 2011 model i3, 2.13GHz with 4GB ram, & I have just upgraded the disk to an M2 SATA SSD in an adapter, still more than adequete, & running a slightly modified MX Linux install, (which is 'heavier' than Devuan/XFCE).

Use the search function & you will find 2 other threads about it.....

Crikey, I don't even like HD on small monitors, & anything bigger than 21" needs to be seen from another room.....

Love my WXGA 15" monitors....

@ zapper
It doesn't matter that there are already similar players, this one is personal....

Quick & dirty music player to me is mc.

Back up your personal data, (as usual), make notes of any config changes you made, then do a dist upgrade.

If it doesn't work out, install afresh.

Use fstab & disk ID to set it up.

I bought 3x 32GB DataTraveller G4 USB3 pendrives, & whilst they are OK to read from, they are abysmal to write to & take hours to fill, literally!

I now just use them to play music from....

I've got Wayland running on my RPi5, so far, the only problem I've had is with touch screens...so I'm willing to stick with it on this SBC, but tend to stick with using Xorg on most of my other machines, (& as noted, Xenocara on OpenBSD).

I've used digital mouse ever since they came out, very reliable...never used a roller/track ball device - too expensive & bulky for me.

I think it took about 2 months last time, we only have a small dedicated team, but they are wonderful people that give us this distro...