I feel like there’s a lemmings reference to be made here but I’m tired. Internet, do your thing.

The one you fucking feel like using. God, stop trying to make tribes mandatory.

Short answer: no

Long answer: only the most important things should even have such low-level access to the system. A fucking game is not in that category. Nooooooo

SSDs can get firmware updates like anything else.

I think it’s worse. It’s negligence. If their OS works, they don’t care what it does to the rest of your computer.

KDE really is what windows promised to become back in the XP days and just never did.

Windows is literally designed to break multi-boot setups. Funny enough, multibooting on a Mac was never a big problem. Microsoft has more of a reason to cooperate here and they just can’t help themselves.

Nvidia doesn’t have stable drivers. Report for misinformation.

There are some peculiar machines out there that can misbehave in weird ways when you take windows off them. Unless you bought your computer from Walmart you are probably fine though. Linux has dramatically improved over the years while windows got so much worse. It’s just better now.

Windows is for stupid people at this point who don’t want to learn anymore.

Many monitors have an audio out port in the monitor itself now. Really useful if you have multiple inputs.

There are DisplayPort cables that don’t have the latch if you prefer them.

Africa sounds terrible. You live in a place where they still use VGA? How horrible.

Build your own. Every out of the box solution can and will screw you.

No. You have a barely functioning windows environment when using hirens that’s only useful for very specific things. Linux can boot off a flash drive and do literally anything a full install can do.

Put a distro on a flash drive. Throw the flash drive in a drawer. If computer break, retrieve flash drive. There’s your spare computer. Now try doing that with windows.

I have a few users on fedora atomic distros. Found out one hadn’t been getting updated since version 36 for some reason lately.

No. Windows will, however, find other reasons to break.

They mainlined T2 support? I’m curious why. The T2 Mac’s were mostly shitty machines.

Yes! Access the webUI, delete the servers it finds then readd them.

So yes and no on that recommendation. If you are just hosting content for local consumption, transcoding is unnecessary since you have the network bandwidth to just throw the data directly to whatever is playing it. So weaker hardware is perfectly fine. If you are doing lots of concurrent streams or there is network access outside the house, the limited bandwidth can become an issue so transcoding suddenly matters and more powerful hardware comes into play.

I have used many ARM SBCs and a few low-power Intel boards like my current N100 and they’ve all been fine. While I generally dislike Intel their quicksync is very useful in media server configurations. If you are going to be doing a lot of live transcodes, I would consider throwing an ARC GPU in there and having jellyfin utilize the transcode capabilities of the Intel GPU instead of the CPU as it can handle more simultaneous streams. Beware the xe driver as there are issues with it in certain configurations. Same with HuC/GuC. The older standard driver is more likely to just work. Jellyfin and the archlinux wiki have great documentation on this.

NVIDIA used to be top tier here but their transcode tech is pretty old by this point and the quality, while acceptable, isn’t the best. Intel beats them. AMD, generally a preference for me, has a terrible media transcoder. Easily the worst quality of all of them. For raw compute and pushing pixels, AMD all the way but for transcode I would pass.

So to summarize: cheap out if it’s just local access. Transcode is pretty much unneeded. If it’s outside the home and/or had many streams at the same time, Intel for the GPU and AMD for the CPU.