Not to go down a rabbit hole that’s off topic, but I’m generally not offended by Steam’s cut. The platform, advertising, centralizing, hosting, and cloud saves, etc etc, seem like a major benefit, especially for smaller developers, that would allow them to get to market faster, and with a much larger audience.

*70% - don’t forget Steam’s cut! There’s basically nothing left after that.

/s just in case not obvious

I’m you!! Single searching and downloading manually worked good enough if you aren’t like trying to make a library.

How do YOU edge?

I prefer and default to fitgirl, but I’ll admit that sometimes the long unpack time doesn’t seem worth the sometimes only 1-5gb file size difference.

Ugh now even my Pi needs clothes??!? Ridiculous.

hey that’s me! or am I you?

but yes, same. Old people at work shake their head at me. Young people at work shake their head at me.

That said - more and more I find myself relating to the younger ones, even the fresh Zoomers entering the workplace.

I’ve been doing computer stuff for a long time and now I have a really dumb question… what’s the benefit of 2x NICs?

In case you don’t have a 2.5gb switch and you daisy chain to a NAS or something?

I’ll have to take a look! Not heard of frigate, and thus far no, I’m not running Home Assistant.

I just found out that Blue Iris is made for Windows, so I guess I’ll be running BlueIris, NAS, and torrents back on windows, probably ltsc.

I know I could try a vm or other such, but I don’t feel like fighting BlueIris preferences.

Blows my mind that a “security and privacy” system like BI isn’t native to Linux.

That looks like for Office? Not Windows?

That’s what I’m doing! I used it to make a “blog” of all the things I had to learn to switch to Linux for my home drives and daily gaming rig. Complete with copy buttons on the code blocks so I can do a complete reformat in minutes!

I installed mint, kubuntu, and pop on a 3060 laptop, and 3080 desktop, and none had issues with GPU, drivers, or gaming. I am brand new to this, starting 2 weeks ago, I’m not experienced for sure.

Lutris gave me a command line to update vulkan, or similar, but otherwise mostly CLI-free too.

Pop specifically has an Nvidia iso as well.

THAT SAID- I still agree this is a “hobby” and if you don’t have time to mess with it, then Linux still isn’t “it just works!!” Like people will claim.