I have a Surface Go 1 with 8 GB RAM running Aurora-DX, which includes the linux-surface kernel. It works great, and I find that modern KDE works quite well with touch, even though I mostly use it with the type cover attached. I only use the surface connect port for charging, but I do use the single usb-c port with a usb-c hib, and it works well. The Fedora atomic distros work great on little machines like that.
Edit: I'd add that Bluefin is the same with Gnome.
Probably wifi, I dont think Moonlight Embedded uses much ram. I also get the undervoltage warning nearly constantly, since the a+ is powered by the usb port of a projector. Maybe that also affects things.
To add more details, I use Sunshine as the server, and stream 1080p, in HEVC for the pi 4 and 5, and h264 for the 3 A+.
I use Moonlight Qt on a raspberry pi 5, and used it on a raspberry pi 4 before that. Both connected via ethernet, streaming at 150 mbps. It works very well, feels like being at the computer. It feels like there is next to no delay, and moonlight reports around 5 ms.
Somewhere else I use a raspberry pi 3 A+ with Moonlight Embedded, connected via Wi-Fi, and it works pretty well, but I can notice the delay a bit more. Still able to stream at 40 mbps.
I have the 128 GB storage 8 GB RAM, it's still very usable. I often get annoyed with the small SSD, I'd assume 64 GB is way too small. Also if I remember correctly the 64 GB version has much slower eMMC storage, while the 128 GB and up have a real SSD.
I installed it successfully on a 512 MB machine the other day, with LXQT. Didn't run very well though.
I use Quadlet, which is now merged in podman. The only issue I had with it is running system systemd services as other (rootless) users, I can't get it to create cid files that the users can access. In those cases only, I have to modify the generated services files, which defeats the purpose.
Podman, rootless containers work well, and there is no central process running everything. I like that starting containers on boot is integrated with systemd.
The command is 'z'