Underpowered and over priced

Modern amd64 CPUs will run circles around it. Pickup something with a i5-6500 and you will have a much better experience. You also could go older or newer depending on what you are doing.

I can’t imagine living without it

Comment 1: a small raspberry pi

Comment 2: full rack with tens of thousands worth of hardware

Fascinating

Yo dawg I heard you liked patch panels

They will get a little more respect from me when they stop trying to target programmers and gamers. Because of course everyone uses Steam and VScode. It just feels very much like it is being run by young edgy programmers. It is the same group that is trying to force crappy “dark mode” everywhere.

What’s the bigger program is the lack of internet knowledge about how to fix problems. With Ubuntu and Debian there are tons of stack overflow pages on all of the various issues. Sure things have changed over time but it still the most documented distro. I can look up “how do I fix X Linux Mint” and I will get an answer. With the Bazzite immutable base almost all of the help online will be useless.

So in short I wouldn’t recommend something like Bazzite. Immutable Linux requires that you understand Linux under the hood. Also I am strongly against distros that need to market themselves as gaming.

4,000 disks is insane

Maybe post to datahorders as well. I can see why you need so many drives

Any off the shelf device that’s not Broadcom.

Flash OpenWRT and be done

They don’t represent a good value for me. I want something cheaper that has room for expansion.

Anything Arch based has a higher chance of breakage. The trade off is that you get very new packages frequently

I wouldn’t go uBlue personally. It is very new and I don’t like the focus. Don’t go straight to immutable Linux.

Official Linux support is silly honestly. It will always be janky.

Windows just works with wine and proton most of the time.

Bazzite is probably fine

I don’t think they are going to support Mac. If you want to play Valorant you need to have Windows on bare metal. The company ships mandatory malware and there is nothing you can do.

Windows 11 is not that bad really. People are freaking over some annoyances

http://gethomepage.dev/

No, the case is open and there is stuff everywhere. At some point something will fall in and it will cause chaos

Well you are here so that’s a start

Not my favorite device

Why on earth do you have so many DVD drives. Also, are you using Windows?

Sorry to be so judgmental