No worries. As you know, it’s quite the journey figuring all of this out and you’re right. Umbrel is fantastic to get an understanding and get immersed in both networks.
Now I’m to the point where I want to strip away any feature I don’t use to just run what I want. Obviously I haven’t found a clear path yet.
You should be able to run a headless setup with most/any linux distro. (I run mine on a raspberry pi) Running headless removes the gui overhead and should let you more easily remove other deadwood.
Either way could work for me. I’m not too worried about the gui overhead for RTL or Thunderhub. But I’m fine going headless if its reliable. I don’t plan on being a routing node.
Just have a few channels big enough to transact.
