Anonymized telemetry doesn’t hurt my feelings as long as it’s opt in. Unfortunately, fedora’s link to Rhel which has repeatedly kicked the community in the ribs worries me. Red hat may decide that fedora should collect by default in an update or that features will only be decided by telemetry instead of user request or developer interest.
Basically, Red Hat/IBM is my worry when it comes to this. No proof of anything at this point but I no longer have any faith in Red Hat.
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Brother MFC machines are what I've always used without issue in linux. Brother offers linux drivers for both print and scan on their site and they're fairly simple to install. @linux
I would seperate the media server from gaming and work. Any old computer will do. 6 gb ram is more than enough. Put you dockers containers there for jellyfin, plex, web hosting, smb etc. It can run headless of course.
For your work station: install your home partition seperate from your OS. You can change your os at any time.
Endeavor works well but you will have to manually configure things like your smb shares, your firewall, etc. Other distros may have all that ready to go.
Having a separate media server is the long term plan. I’ll be setting up a NAS and Beelink then, but right now my workstation has to suffice. Actually I still have an old motherboard and a Ryzen 1500X lying around somewhere, which I could use for a build next time I’ll upgrade my gpu.
But being on Nvidia right now Linux sadly didn’t satisfy my needs in its current state. I’ll keep an eye on how Wayland progresses and make the switch once there’s adequate Nvidia support or I can afford an AMD gpu upgrade, because what I saw was damn sexy, it just wasn’t there yet for me.
Give reborn os a go. It’s like Garuda but you can customize how you want with a multitude of options with the installer. It’s what I’m using and I think it would fit your needs and wants.
I’m using TBS octa DVB-T(2)/DVB-C tuner card, which is streaming the channels to my LAN (by using Tvheadend, Mumudvb, or Astra), but I was also frustrated about compiling the driver for it whenever there was a kernel update (github.com/tbsdtv/linux_media). Eventually I created a Debian virtual machine and configured the tuner device available for it by using AMD IOMMU and Qemu/KVM PCI pass through. It has worked very well, and there’s no need to update the kernel if you don’t care about the security and vulnerabilities ;D
I’m using cards from www.digital-devices.eu; a Cine S2 v6.5 from 2015 and a DuoFlex S2 v4 from 2017 for 4 DVB-S2 tuners total. I’ve found them to be of high quality and the upstream kernel supports them.
Unfortunately, it seems the modular hardware I’m using is no longer sold. The cheapest currently available product is an expensive 8 tuner card.
I installed EndeavorOS on an old Acer Chromebox and it was pretty straightforward. MrChromebox.tech has everything you need. Of course, compatibility varies so you have to check the list to make sure your Chromebook is supported.
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