Based on the complexitiy of this setup, you need to be quite enthusiastic about your homelab.

This used to be possible, but isn’t anymore. Source: the author of lutris

If you need help, feel free to ask here on lemmy. At least my home instance has more linux users than windows users, and there are many who are happy to help.

True, only through heroic. It has been among the most wished features of GOG, yet never fulfilled.

That’s a tough one. Clearly, everyone hates both kernel-level anticheat and cheaters. The level of hate depends.

I could make another meme “Linux Gaming without Valve and Steam”, but it would have another picture on it…

It’s my observation that Valve has earned the trust of the linux gaming community and therefore is the one and only acceptable proprietary launcher.

Mandatory first party launchers?

I haven’t been playing on windows for years now, please forgive my lack of knowledge ;)

I must confess that I love the Assassins Creed series

You’re right. It’s just frustrating that most games could run better (or at all) if publishers paid just a little bit of attention.

Never use SMR drives for a RAID setup. But outside of RAID, they’re probably fine.

Ryzen 2000 and 3000 are still fairly recent and were announced 5-6 years ago.

Absolutely true from a technical perspective. But if you’re shopping for used devices, the price difference can be quite relevant. I’ve seen 7th gen PCs at ~100€, while 8th gen PCs are sold for littpe under 200€.

I bought such an old computer. 6th gen i3 Intel CPU, upgraded the memory to 16G and added more storage. For me, it works well.

However, I recommend checking the power usage of the system. Some older PCs might be very piwer hungry, which makes them expensive in the long run.

Edit: 6th gen and 7th gen Intel CPUs are not compatible with windows 11. The market is full of these old PCs and they are cheam. I personally would not buy anything older.

That’s true for AMD/Intel comparisons. It doesn’t really matter when comparing one vendor.

But you’re right, it is not really trustworthy

I’d rather have a great documentation than five different blog posts, where some of them might be outdated, wrong or insecure (and you only find out later).

But yes, they are helpful and easily available for popular software.

That’s a truely unusual way. Why not set it up on a raspberry pi?

This seems like a huge win for Microsoft

I absolutely expect vendors to push out new patterns automatically and as fast as possible.

But in this case, a new system driver was rolled out. And when updating system software, I absolutely expect security vendors to use a staged rollout like everyone else.

Ok, makes sense