I’d gladly replace Android with any flavor of Linux whenever possible. But the phone and TV set top industries make it difficult/impossible. And the next barrier is whether my family could operate these without patience for bugs and missing features.

I’ve been transferring files from old NTFS drives formatted for Windows on a Debian machine without issue.

Is freemediaheckyeah an IPTV service? Plex or Jellyfin can manage IPTV streams. Plex needs additional software (e.g., xTeVe) to take an m3u playlist and convert it into a tuner.

https://blog.iptvinsider.com/watch-iptv-on-plex/

https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/server/live-tv/setup-guide/