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What Linux distribution do you use @ HOME ?

  • Slackware

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • Ubuntu

    Votes: 35 43.2%

  • Mint

    Votes: 17 21.0%

  • Fedora

    Votes: 13 16.0%

  • Debian

    Votes: 11 13.6%

  • SUSE

    Votes: 6 7.4%

  • Arch

    Votes: 5 6.2%

  • Gentoo

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • Puppy

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Mandriva

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 26 32.1%
  • Total voters
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Kajiimagi

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Well I looked and as I feared , when I built the current machine I put my W11 install on a portion on the same physical M2 drive as my games drive , just different drive letters.
If I do this it will be more as an experiment than anything. I only have MS because games. They are getting more and more up our asses with AI shit. I saw today that they are calling Office Copilot 365 office or someshit.

I'm not opposed to starting from scratch but I do have other things I'd rather do. Guess I'll think about it more. Also looked, last 2TB drive I bought was for my NAS (WD RED) and it's not $75 more than when I bought them last year. I wouldn't need a NAS rated drive but just goes to show you how silly things are getting.
 
Noodleface

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Kajiimagi said:
Well I looked and as I feared , when I built the current machine I put my W11 install on a portion on the same physical M2 drive as my games drive , just different drive letters.
If I do this it will be more as an experiment than anything. I only have MS because games. They are getting more and more up our asses with AI shit. I saw today that they are calling Office Copilot 365 office or someshit.

I'm not opposed to starting from scratch but I do have other things I'd rather do. Guess I'll think about it more. Also looked, last 2TB drive I bought was for my NAS (WD RED) and it's not $75 more than when I bought them last year. I wouldn't need a NAS rated drive but just goes to show you how silly things are getting.
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Are you in a spot with shitty Internet or something? I can't imagine having to install games in Linux being a deal breaker. I usually only keep a couple games installed though
 
Kajiimagi

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Noodleface said:
Are you in a spot with shitty Internet or something? I can't imagine having to install games in Linux being a deal breaker. I usually only keep a couple games installed though
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nah i'm on fiber 1g up/dn. Think with prices being so stupid I'm going to move around some stuff off one of my 2TB M2 drives and try it. Not the end of the world.
 
Kharzette

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Linux Steam gets VERY confused if it finds windows steam folders. Best to keep linux steam away from them.

Even if it appears to work, sometimes randomly it will redownload an entire game for no particular reason. I had it do this with me a few times back when I had basically 2 tin cans and some string for an internet connexion and it was super painful.

For me I only have windows for VRChat. If I could get my old oculus to work on linux I could ditch windows entirely. I only have a 256 gig drive for windows but I could really use that extra space.
 
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Haus

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OK. building a new "mother box" for the house. Goals will be :
  • n8n installed for playing with automation
  • On machine non-internet LLM of some kind (probably via Ollama) to tie into automation
  • Home Assistant to build out my non-internet reliant home automation (and yes, tying into n8n and the LLM to start building my version of Jarvis for the house)
  • Media storage blob (lots of movies/tv, some music, massive photo/pic archive) probably via TrueNAS
  • Plex server
Stretch goal would be to also be home to backups of systems in the house and maybe eventual LoRA work on AI models (small scale)

Originally I was going to build fresh from scratch, but some recent unexpected expenses have made me decide to try to be a TINY bit more budget consious. As such, currently this is looking like it will be based on a retired rig that used to be the gaming rig for Mrs. Haus Mrs. Haus , specs as follows :
  • 4 x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690 CPU @ 3.50GHz (1 Socket)
  • 32GB DDR4 ram (4x8GB)
  • 2x 2TB Nvme boot drives (mirrored)
  • Old nVidia card (980 with 4GB of memory) - Debating sinking some $$$ on it if I get into doing LoRA retraining of AI models.
Variable in play is HDD space. Currently I have 5x 10TB drives and thinking 4+1 RAID to get 40TB. But have the budget to go stupid big on drives if I want to build the black hole of home storage. (original idea was 80TB total RAID storage space as that SHOULD be sufficient for the foreseeable future. This is driven by my loving wife's desire to have our own copies of all possible media we would want and not rely on streaming/subscription VOD services.

Question is OS and buildout. A friend suggested Proxmox and doing this via LXC containers predominantly. Gave it a run, but I'm just not feeling the Proxmox vibe (am I missing some super magical aspect of it?). My natural instinct was to just slap a basic Ubuntu build on it , add docker, and go from there.

Question being : Am I missing something? Is there a better approach or OS to throw on the device to achieve these goals?
 
darkmiasma

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Proxmox is a bare metal hypervisor/“OS”, so you run it on the hardware itself (like VMware).

When you log in you can run LXCs (basically Linux native containers like Docker), or you can create VMs running whatever you want on them.

You allocate CPU, RAM, vRAM, and disk space to whatever you provision (LXC or VM).

The Helper Scripts I liked are ready to go LXCs. Inside Proxmox you go to the terminal and copy/paste the shell command and it will pull down a script to provision and configure the LXC for the software you picked automatically. It’s as painless as it can possibly be automated.

When I’m not on my phone I’ll try to get you some more resources.

There is a decent playlist that you get get info from here:

Just jump to the chapter on Proxmox (about 10 minutes in). I believe he also goes into the helper scripts later and in the next video as well.
 
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Rabbit_Games

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Time it give Linux a shot again. I'm thinking CachyOS after reading some stuff online. Nvidia GPU seems to be the biggest hiccup with Linux. I just Game (through Steam only), video edit, etc. so it should be fine.
 
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Janx

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Rabbit_Games said:
Time it give Linux a shot again. I'm thinking CachyOS after reading some stuff online. Nvidia GPU seems to be the biggest hiccup with Linux. I just Game (through Steam only), video edit, etc. so it should be fine.
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I'm using CachyOS with a 5090 and its been a non issue.
 
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I use AMD GPUs on my Linux systems, but I have used Nvidia in the past with no issue. A good distro will handle all of the kernel module issues for you as long as you update everything in the distro-approved way.
 
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