I like to tinker with anything tech related.
Not sure about your life, but I don’t count things I enjoy as “work” especially when its not work. I enjoy using Linux, I enjoy my home lab why should I need to justify it when it brings me joy? Linux works for me and my workflow, just because it doesn’t work for yours, don’t try to shit on other people.
There are alternatives to these so it depends on the user. If your workflow requires these, then that’s in you.
Like what, what format would this be? Regardless every company I have ever worked for issue me a laptop with windows anyway, so why would the OS I choose to use on hardware I own be a factor for work? Even then, if they didn’t I don’t know of any format that I would need that would be an issue.
Well in that case; My windows PC falls back to a server running Linux as that’s where all my files are, where my docker containers and VMs all run off… I can spin up a new PC in minutes (windows or Linux) as everything is done off the server, including staging my devices.
When you absolutely need to use Windows Defender… On Linux. Or when you need to use Cortana /s
Windows only app… Name one that is actually useful and I bet there is an alternative.
I don’t need it for windows applications, its basically something I can use for light photo and video editing and uploading to my server, all the heavy lifting is done on my PC which has windows because of adobe and better support for X264 and X265 when video editing.
Monsgeek M1 with Boba U4T switches, great for long typing sessions and for gaming. I have 45g springs as a lighter spring makes the bump more deifned.
In use an i3 12100 with whatever cheep motherboard from a good brand and 16gb of ram (it would be fine with 8gb, but DDR4 ram is cheep so more the better) if you look at ZFS and a real raid, it gets expensive quick, I use Unraid which is ideal if you have SMR drives and/or different sized HDDs. You can get cheep LSI HBM cards off eBay in IT mode which is perfect to connect HDDs to (my mobo only has 4 sata ports)
That’s how I started, when I upgraded my PC my old PC became a dedicated Plex server running Linux, then the CPU gave up after 8 years (3 years as a 24/7 sever) then bought a PC to run unraid. Its a slippery slope, I started on 16tb of media 6 months ago, I’m now on 24tb…
Windows 10 IoT enterprise LTSC and disable telemetry. Don’t bother with 3rd party apps for privacy unless you are 100% sure they are safe.
And never install from an ISO that’s been tampered with. Get directly from Microsoft.
That looks incredible! what is that cooler? Did you 3D print the case yourself?
Log on to your router, that will show what’s connected.
You’ve forgotten all those extensions which look for discount codes at checkout on online stores, in think “Honey” was one of them.
Its overkill for the i3 12100, but its on 24/7 so might as well keep it as cool as possible.
The motherboard has what I need for a home server, the case is big enough for all the hard drives. A micro ATX case would not have nearly enough bays.
So for the past 9 years I’ve been using the 8pin (from PSU) to 8pin + 6pin (to graphics card) this was wrong?
I have 2 cables that came with it (both have an 8pin and a 6pin on the GPU end so I’m just going to use both cables and just use the 8pin connector on each.
It’s been a while since I last build a PC. I should know this shit, I used to be a system builder… But that was also many years ago.
Thanks!
What graphics card are you going for? I’m in the process of specing out my next PC but the graphics card is causing me a headache
I never made such a comment. Gaming, for me is a big reason why I only have windows installed on my PC (and adobe) there are games which work on Linux (either natively or with Proton) but some games I play, don’t. Theres no point in me dual booting as, let’s be honest, dual booting just adds more steps and overcomplicates things. I use Linux on my laptop as the alternatives I use (Darktable and Kdenlive) are more than good enough for when I’m on my laptop (its not exactly a powerhouse) but when I’m on my desktop I want to use Lightroom, Photoshop and DaVinci Resolve as they are more refined and fit my workflow better.
Unraid on my server is just because its exactly what I need.