Helix because it’s easy to setup and hassle free, and it runs well on my 2009 ASUS Eee

Not even close, Proton is a translation layer from Win32 API to whatever works similar for Linux, SDL just gives a higher level API of lower level stuff, like instead of using Xorg/Wayland directly, you get a nicer cross platform API that does the job well

I’m not, but shouldn’t this be an easy task ootb in Laravel?