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.

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.

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I've gone with Unraid and consumer level hardware (intel i3 12100 and 16gb of standard ddr4 ram) the only "server hardware" I have, is an LSI HBA card that's in IT mode so I can connect more HDDs.

I'm even used SMR drives in my array, just use a good CMR drive for parity and the biggest SSD you can get for your cache drive and you will be good to go.

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.

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.

Yes.

They is.

Gotta love a good TLA.

Hot to touch, and now its warn to touch.

Its the stock CPU cooler that comes with the newer Intel's (this is a 12th gen i3)

I tried just the fan on it's own, but gravity always left it sat at the bottem of my case.

Always, if it's not, you need more zip ties.