These days, you can install any of the gaming focused distros (Bazzite, CachyOS, Nobara, …). And you didn’t have to do anything. It just works, and works well. Steam is either installed or suggested initially. Really trivial.

I haven’t used it myself, but there Limo, a Nexus compatible mod manager for Linux. Seems competent.

I wish there was one. Thunderbird has given me nothing but issues. KMail is lacking basic features, as does evolution. I obviously haven’t tried them all, but this already took long enough and I’m tired of it.

First my context: I’m also running multiple Proxmox hosts (personal and professional), and havea paperless-ngx instance (personal/family). I tried Firefly, but the effort required to get it to a point where it would be if use to me was too high, so I dropped it. Haven’t used n8n.

For the setup I’d just use the Proxmox community scripts, if you haven’t heard of them. Makes updates trivial and lowers the bar to just trying something to basically zero.

Paperless-ngx I actually use, cause it means I can find something when i need it. It’s all automatically ocr’d and all you have to do is categorize them. With time, it’ll learn and do this for you. You can (manually) setup your scanner to just directly upload files to the “consume” folder and it just works. PC/server power is near irrelevant, it just means OCR takes slightly longer, otherwise it’s a web server. You can run this just fine on a raspberry pi.

I don’t have any real automation setup, so I can’t really comment on that. My advice is to just install it, see what it does and how it feels. Try to anticipate if and how much automation you need. Many aspects of all this are of the “setup once” variety, where once it’s working, you don’t have to touch it again. Try to gauge if the one time effort is worth it for you, then go from there. As I said, it was fine for paperless for me, but not for Firefly (but I might need to revisit this).

You asked a very loaded question, implying seeing no use for the file system and/or no point to these optimizations as a result.

If you genuinely didn’t know what exFAT is used for, or what is a common use of it is, you could’ve asked just that. Like “what is exFAT used for” or “I’ve never heard of this, an I using this and just don’t know it?”.

I mean there’s isn’t anything to fix. Could just be an unlucky month in selecting people for the survey. As the other person said, it does seem to be a statistical anomaly or actual error. But that is still a pretty massive dip for either of those two options. In and of itself also kinda statistically unlikely, hence my question.

The heck happened in March?

On Linux, running Jellyfin through docker with GPU acceleration works fine, yes. But you need some options/flags to pass access to the GPU to the inside of the container. Guides and/or docker tutorials exist and should contain that, as that’s basically the default setup these days.

As for Bazzite and Docker (I just checked), no it isn’t part of the base image and you can’t easily install it. That’s the downside of an immutable distro. I think podman is available, which is compatible and FOSS, but there may be caveats to using that. There is a bazzite version called bazzite-dx intended for developers, so that one would probably work fine for you out of the box. There shouldn’t be any real downside to using that compared to the mainline image, apart from being slightly larger cause all dev tools are installed, but do check that. My practical experience with Bazzite is limited.

My real recommendation is: just try it. Slap in a small/cheap SSD (~20 bucks) instead of whatever you got in there now, install CachyOS and try it out. Then install Bazzite and try it out. By “Try it out” I do mean setting up a copy of or a test-install of your required services (arr stack, jellyfin, …), to see if everything is as you’d expect. Possibly install more distros to try them out, then make up your mind and actually fully migrate, or if it doesn’t work out go back to your currently installed drive. Installing a linux distro takes like 10 minutes these days, then play around with however long you need. Since you already have it narrowed down to only 2 options anyway, that is most likely the best solution.

There’s a lot of well meaning but not too well informed advice in here. Since one of your goals is gaming, stay away from Mint. It can be made to work (well), but you have to get there. It’s basically the recommendation people gave for decades, but there have been massive improvements through many distros while mint just kinda stood still. There’s still some things they do rather well though.

CachyOS will do what you want it to, and it is what I switched to like 8 months ago. It isn’t maintenance heavy at all if you don’t want it to be. I think I had to intervene once since I started using it, but that intervention was necessary or it wouldn’t have booted after updates. The official updater will tell you when that’s the case, as it lists critical news like that. Otherwise it just works, and it’s pre-configured and optimized for gaming. Under the hood it’s basically Arch, just without the fiddling of getting it to a usable state. Because of that they’re is also an enormous amount of information out there (Arch wiki) on how to do stuff.

Bazzite is a stark contrast in many ways as it’s an immutable distro, but also pre-configured and optimized (maybe not quite as much as CachyOS). It will also do what you want just fine. It is relatively “safe” due to the immutability, and updates are much rarer (and by definition always whole system updates). I don’t know exactly how you’d run your services, but assuming they are dockerized or similar that should be just fine, but please do some searching before if it does contain what you need in the base image (presumably docker and docker compose).

It’s wild to me that coal still went up by like 15% in absolute numbers.

Yup, that’s a great summary.

I just wanted to add that the reason it’s good, specifically better than bash, is that daring to create something that drops compatibility after I don’t know how many decades allows to actually apply the lessons from an this time. The lack of portability is basically the reason it can be better, but also obviously a bummer.

I got the 64gb intentionally to just put in a 512gb myself. Was no problem to do, and saved quite a bit on the price difference. I’m extremely happy with the device, but don’t use it nearly enough.

The main idea is that the state of your computer/desktop is known to home assistant and you can react to it. Media starts playing on PC, so mute the tv. A meeting starts (camera in use), so dim room lights and turn on the ring light.

PC turned off: wait 30s, then turn off the whole outlet to act as a master/slave power strip and save power on monitors and otherpc associated standby devices. Or just turn off desk lights.

Finally you can have scripts on the PC that do whatever you want, and you can trigger them from home assistant. Movement detected in the garden, so open the camera preview on the corner of 3rd monitor. Backup server just came online (or was woken up by wake-on-lan from ha), so run a backup if the PC is on.

Dual booting is perfectly fine. Just try to not use the windows boot partition for both OS or Windows will occasionally “lose” the Linux entry… “Oops” I guess.

If Linux is on its own drive, or at least has it’s own uefi partition, it’s just fine and dandy. Just chain load windows from it and there’s basically nothing that can break.

Just use librewolf, no need to faff about with scripts and be worried about the next release or whatever.

No drift yet, got an original 64gb basic edition. But I also barely use the thing, so that probably contributed to the longevity.

I did swap the SSD basically as soon as I got it, was trivial. Thumb sticks aren’t much harder as they are on daughter boards. Hard to fuck that up.

Isn’t PicaOS gamers Debian already?

DuckDNS had been unreliable when I used it, but it’s been a while. I swapped over to desec.io but their signups aren’t always open. Can highly recommend them though, and they offer many paths to update the IP, including DynDNS(2) protocol or just ddclient.

Also works with certbot for Let’s encrypt certificates using dns challenge.

Never run something like Vaultwarden with unencrypted traffic. Throwing in a self signed cert is basically free insurance. You never know when even in your “trusted network” something starts listening in. Just why risk it?

People seem to keep ignoring the part where I couldn’t find any. Yes their naming sucks, but it won’t say “Nnidia” next to the listing for the GPU, so that isn’t the issue either.

To go into a bit more detail: I was looking at linux-adjacent laptops (that I can buy without a Windows-license) up to 15" display, with gaming being a primary use case. This obviously includes that all components work with linux, and ideally it should ship with it. Preferably it should not be from one of the major brands (HP, Dell, Lenovo, …), but if they got the linux compatiblity down, that would be fine. Finally it should have good repairability and allow me to open it to swap components (RAM, NVMe, …) without affecting the warranty.

So in the end I mostly looked at Tuxedo computers, Slimbook, SKIKK and one or two more where I can’t remember the name. None of them have a laptop with AMD GPU at all, only iGPU. Furthermore, when you check the price comparison websites in the “notebook” category (like idealo for example) they let you filter for this sort of thing. Obviously they don’t list every laptop that exists on the market, but they do list the popular brands (again HP, Dell, Lenovo, …). When applying NO filters at all, there are over 6k laptops listed. Roughly 1500 of those have a dedicated Nvidia GPU. The total for AMD/Radeon? 16. yes. SIXTEEN.

So I’m back to “functionally, they don’t exist”.