Avoid hoarding? Let’s just say I bring a real “gotta catch em all” energy to the trackers.

Yeah, I’ve heard Photoshop can be rough. Here’s hoping someone figures those out for you so you can find your way to the promised land. These days everything important to me works in Linux and I’m never going back.

Are you absolutely sure the programs you need don’t work in wine/proton? The last few years have been a renaissance in terms of increased compatibility.

If I remember correctly ZFS keeps the whole array running whenever one is active (which is basically always). If I remember, I’ll check my UPS when I get home to see the actual power draw. The storage itself is probably cheaper to run than the main server in the rack - a gen8 HP 360p, which is a bit on the old side and I’d guess not terribly efficient being a 1U piece with many small high-powered fans running constantly.

Electricity here isn’t too expensive though, being public hydro power.

That’s a slight exaggeration. I think it was about 2 years to get close to filling that up. Keep in mind that a chunk of that is unusable due to drive parity.

It really depends on what you’re doing. In my case the soft costs like domains are pretty negligible compared to how much I seem to spend on more hard disks every six months. You might tell yourself, “96 TB of raw storage will last forever,” but it turns out forever is about a year.

Fair point, and to your other point it looks like RimpPy is indeed closed source. I took a peak and the source code archives on the release page just extract to the same 2 files in the GitHub repo.

Rimsort looks great though - I’ll definitely give it a shot on my next playthrough, so thanks for that.

FYI, RimpPy also runs in Linux. (Not that I won’t be taking a look at this.)

I definitely see how that’d be an annoyance. Glad it hasn’t soured you long-term on it though.

Yeah, I think AMD makes a huge difference there. My old Nvidia card had all sorts of issues with screen tearing, but my current rig worked flawlessly under Wayland with no tweaking necessary.

Good to know. Regardless, as much as I expect it to be inevitable I’m gonna put it off until I really feel the need.

Well that’s unfortunate. I guess different hardware and configs can really make all the difference. In my case I’m using a desktop with no integrated graphics at all, so no chance of that particular problem happening. This build is all-AMD and using Wayland.

I’ve only had two small issues thus far, across the dozen or so games I’ve tried on this setup. Both were very easy to fix, though one is worth mentioning as it’s loosely similar to yours: in Valheim literally every time I started the game it’d default to the wrong audio output and I’d have to manually switch it back.

Sorry to hear about your own bad experience. Given the rate at which the desktop ecosystem keeps improving, however, and marketshare creeps up, I’m sure in a few more years it might be worth giving it another shot with your setup.

This is really cool and I’m glad it exists for those stuck on Windows for certain games. That said, I’d still highly encourage anyone interested to give Linux a shot. I ran it as my daily driver for years about a decade ago, but finally switched back to Windows because I was spending too much time trying to get my games to work. I finally got fed up with Windows 11 and moved back last year. Holy hell has gaming on Linux come a long way with Proton. Everything I’ve thrown at it has worked flawlessly, and runs at least as fast as they did on Windows.

That said, I get that not everyone wants such a paradigm shift or to learn a new tech just to play their games. In the interim of not running Linux on my desktop, I still worked with Linux servers and used the Windows Linux Subsystem, so I get that I’m a little biased in how easy the switch was. You can find distros that are very beginner-friendly, however, or even specifically gaming-oriented.

But yeah, for those stuck on Windows due to games with pervasive anti-cheat or whatever, I get that AtlasOS could be a gamechanger.

Thank you for coming to me Ted Talk.

Oh, for sure. I get that they need to play the optics game and I (for the most part) am happy with Plex in its current state. I definitely agree they have to walk a fine line.

However, I think it’s inevitable that they’ll eventually go the way of every for-profit tech company and continue to water down their platform. I’d love to move to jellyfin but my previous run with it was much less smooth on the user side than Plex is. Hopefully in time it’ll be just as bug-free, but even then I’m not looking forward to onboarding all my users.

Most people use the service to access streaming content legitimately.

Yeah, citation needed on that one. I know they’re pushing their own streaming to try to pivot toward “legitimacy”, but I think we all know why the platform is so popular.

Sir, are you the Pirate Bay? I feel like you’re single-handedly keeping a tracker alive.

I don’t have any experience with CoreOS so can’t help you on that front. That said, it sounds like the server in question isn’t mission-critical in the first place and you seem to have come up with a good argument for trying it out. Why not give it a go and see how it works out?

I suspect that this might get interesting (in the way that one might want to grab popcorn for). I don’t know the current numbers but a sizable amount of web servers use nginx to at least some degree.

I can only speak anecdotally, but I’ve bought dozens of used network/server components and refurb drives off eBay over the past few years and haven’t had a single bad experience. Once a seller forgot to send one of two cables I ordered and immediately shipped the second on their dime. As long as you’re buying from sellers with good feedback you’re likely going to be fine. That said, I can’t speak to their warranty system as I’ve never used it.

Also, if I recall correctly Newegg got bought by some conglomerate a few years back and has apparently started the process of enshitiffication. That’s just something I recall hearing though - I think I’ve only ever shopped with them once, years back.