SteamOS 3.9 is the closest thing to a perfect desktop Linux I've ever used
…SteamOS 3.7 kept running into kernel panics on that system, and the 3.8 builds weren’t much better, so I ended up pulling a 3.9 image from a community…
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The best home server OS in 2026 isn't trying to be a NAS at all
…You can mix VMs and containers, and the community-maintained Proxmox VE-Helper Scripts have one-line solutions for many of the tasks you'll want to accomplish. Proxmox See at Proxmox…
PowerShell is genuinely good now, and most Linux users won't admit it
…He also works a lot with Windows systems and networking, especially in mixed environments where things don't always behave the way the documentation says they should. Writing things down is how…
The worst gaming GPU in your drawer might be your best home server upgrade
…For transcoding specifically, the NVIDIA plus Jellyfin combination in Docker is probably the most documented GPU configuration in the self-hosted community. It's not plug-and-play, but it's close…
I tried ReactOS and it's unbearable to use, but what it's attempting is genuinely brilliant
…Just recently, the ReactOS developers implemented a major improvement to networking performance , and since things are so rough around the edges right now, any development is a big deal. Even if I…
My local LLM rewrote my resume better than ChatGPT, and it's not even close
…He can be found engaging with gaming communities online, always ready to debate the finer points of ray tracing or itching to write an 8-page collegiate thesis on any game that…
Windows is learning Linux's best tricks, while Linux is learning Windows' best tricks
…That is a transformation no one in the Linux community would have predicted in 2015. The desktop environments have also matured into something Windows users would recognize as polished. KDE Plasma in…
I replaced five smart home hubs with a $30 Zigbee dongle and never looked back
…The perk of using this is that if a manufacturer releases a non-standard device, the Z2M community writes a converter within days. You aren't waiting for a corporate firmware update…
This Obsidian plugin turned my vault into a local Notion replacement overnight
…He also works a lot with Windows systems and networking, especially in mixed environments where things don't always behave the way the documentation says they should. Writing things down is how…
I run Hyper-V instead of VirtualBox on Windows 11, and it's faster and free
…Clash of the best virtualization platforms Can Microsoft's Hyper-V beat the community-favorite Proxmox Virtual Environment? It is a type-1 hypervisor, after all When it comes to accessibility, VirtualBox…