I guess I’m confused on how t being sandboxed would stop it from doing it’s tracking thing

I think he was saying that installing it on your main user account would be the way that’s pointless.

Woof

Only piping I’ve heard of is done in the bedroom 🤣

What’s your version of it?? Lol

Oh interesting. I’ve been live booting PikaOS so far just to see how difficult it is to get certain things up and running and… I don’t know if it’s the OS or if it’s the fact that its live image, but getting certain things up and running so bar has been a pain. Docker didn’t install easily (CLI was a pain compared to double clicking the .deb downloaded from Dockers website), and I couldn’t get Jellyfin to HW transcode through docker, so I installed that through Pika’s software discovery thing. Xbone controller wouldn’t connect (but that could be a failed BT module on the mobo. I remember having issues with it on windows)… So yea… Off to a great start lol

If Bazzite is going to give even more problems then it sounds like I should stay away from it. The computer will mostly be doing server work, which it sounds like Debian might be the way to go?

The gaming aspect isn’t going to be the latest and greatest games. Most couch co-op type games. My main PC is still on win10 for that stuff.

Does booting from a live USB restrict me more so than just commiting to an install on the boot drive? Is Ventoy limiting me? That’s how I’ve been booting so far, but am about to flash to the USB to start the troubleshooting process

Docker has been the deployment method of choice, thus far, and the plan is to continue that method since I’m already familiar.

I’m not attached to either, I’ve seen a lot of people recommend them. Debian has gotten more than a few recommendations in this thread, so I’m checking out PikaOS now.

As much as I didn’t want to, it’s really seeming like I’m going to need to pick a few a test them out. Bazzite, CachyOS, and PikaOS are all on the list right now. Plan to install steam, install a game or two, and see how things go there. Followed up by a potentially small deployment of Jellyfin and a tiny library to see how easy it is to get hardware transcoding up and running.

You mentioned ZFS or other file systems… And that brings up another question I forgot to add to the OP… As of right now. The plan is to have the media files on the 3 disk pool. I was planning on using ZFS for that, but hadn’t landed on a FS for the OS drive and other storage drive.

Is it common practice to use one FS across all drives? Or would ZFS work well enough on its own for the pool and use a different FS for the OS/storage drives?

I’ve seen Debian mentioned a couple times now. Is there an ideal fork/repo/tell-me-what-word-to-use-here for what I’m trying to do?

I do have a laptop that would likely work for testing… But other than just firing it up… I have no idea what I should be doing to test it out. Install steam? Docker + a container? I don’t really have the time to commit to doing all of that for multiple distros…

All the containers will be dockerized. I’ll have to learn the new file structure and change the compose yaml’s before I fire them all up, but I can’t imagine that’ll be too horrible.

I actually really enjoyed learning docker, but it was a huge time sink and I’m trying to mitigate that as much as I can with this migration

I was running everything through Docker, so that will be a must. Jellyfin was on its own executable, but that was because something with transcoding, I think, wasn’t working with docker. I don’t remember now what the problem was, but apparently the issue didn’t exist in the Linux docker version. It was isolated to windows.

If it’s not in the base image, there will be a way to add it, yea?

Somewhere else in the thread someone mentioned Bazzite not being ideal for servers, but I’m still parsing through all the replies, so I’m unsure how accurate that is.

Can this swap be done live, or does it need to be on a fresh install??

I have Jellyfin/arr stack/Immich PC on win 11 and I freaking hate it, but dread swapping everything over to Linux

I currently have a Wireguard server setup on my router with the client on my phone that connects automatically any time I leave home (thanks Tasker!). This is essentially the same as the tail scale setup, right??

Any idea how much that cloudflare tunnel costs?? I’d love to be able to share via a link rather than sending individual pictures, but my current setup really only allows it if that person is connected to my home wifi.