I use it on a Thinkpad x60s where Alpine has a lot better support for such old hardware. But I use an arm based chromebook with PostmarketOS more often (also Alpine based). At work it’s either Alpine or NixOS for headless servers.

I drive an e-up! and use Alpine Linux btw. Both gets the job done without too much fuss or unnecessary bloat.

Don’t know about the admin page, however, the client on my tv does that if I watch half of it and continue watching at a later time.