I gave up on KVMs.

Each of my screens has more than one input, my mouse & keeb can each pair with 3 PCs and there’s a button on to toggle between.

Sure, it’s a few more button presses, but it doesn’t cost me a dime for functionality that’s baked in already.

I’m using Tuxedo OS. Based off Ubuntu, but without snaps, and using a up-to-date KDE desktop environment. I don’t like Cinnamon.

Highly highly recommend Nobara over Mint if you’re primarily going to be gaming. It’s a fork of Fedora by Glorious Eggshell Eggroll (the guy behind Proton-GE), who himself works for Redhat.

It. just. works.

v40 should be out within a week or two of Fedora 40 dropping on the 23rd.

Edit: Wrong Egg-thing

also amd cards work with linux much better

It’s gotten a lot better with the Open source Nvidia drivers and the latest Kernel. Fedora 40 in March is ditching X11, and it’s expected that Nvidia cards ought to work fine.

I’m an AMD guy myself, but Nvidia isn’t the headache on the penguin like it used to be.

Regardless, your best use of your $100 is to change the CPU to the son-to-be-released 5700X3D. That 3D cache is amazing.

The Ryzen7 5700X3D will be $249MSRP at the end of the month. That’s your $100, right there, and it’ll be one hell of an upgrade.

Airflow (mesh) > Glass
Easy cable management > Lights

There are some excellent, inexpensive cases out there.

Continue to use OpenSUSE

Signal was fantastic until they stupidly killed SMS integration.

Dude, with the exception of Gamepass, Linux gaming is really easy.

If you’re okay with Redhat/Fedora, using Nobara Linux (it’s a spin-off, unofficial, but by the guy who does a lot of the Proton [magic compatibility sauce] stuff, GloriousEggroll, who AFAIK is a dev at RedHat) literally installs everything you need.

Steam → Steam
GoG/Epic → Heroic Launcher
Amazon/Blizzard → Lutris
Gamepass → You have to use the cloud version with Edge browser

Click, install, game.

There’s only a few Anticheat PITA titles still (I believe Valorant is one) that won’t work.

Toys r Us is still in business… in Canada. Went there yesterday, in fact.

There used to be a PSU tier list thread on the LTT forums that people referred to a lot. Last I checked, it hadn’t been updated in a while, but might be a good place to start, regardless.

Yeah you’d likely want a stronger CPU. As an aside, check out Jellyfish as an alternative to Plex, I prefer it.

As for the NTFS issue, I’d likely suggest just going ext4 as the FS on your server. You can mount it in Windows using a roundabout method through WSL2, should you ever need to.

What kinda server? If you’re just slinging files, you don’t need much horsepower on your CPU – I’m using an SBC and a Debian derivative made specifically for that, OpenMediaVault. NTFS mounts okay for reading; writing isn’t recommended to NTFS due to file permissions.

I used to, but with the official Microsoft app installer (Winget) I haven’t had the need lately (nor have I bothered with ninite, lately).

Winget search …
Winget install …

E.g.,

winget search steam

[Shows results]

winget install valve.steam

Tip: Toss in a -i to get interactive (as opposed to silent) installer. Good for when you want to, say, install Steam on different drive.

The subreddit’s DSQ threads were mostly things like pcpartpicker lists for feedback, or basic tech support requests like.

Kept everything contained to that thread. There were some dedicated folks who consistently answered; Luminaria, MGsubbie, any of you folks here along with me?