A hopefully “success in progress”: I am building a new trueNAS server for storage. I have a k8s cluster and am currently using rancher for storage, but I decided at my scale central storage made more sense & would be easier to manage. I am also using that opportunity to upgrade from 2TB usable storage to 44TB usable storage. Fingers crossed everything will work 🤞

I know the dev that works on this haha. It really is a neat project, and the guy is brilliant!

The only that I have that is not there is autobrr, it’s really useful with private trackers. If you’re looking to expand what you did, that could be an interesting item to add!

3 months after I configured all of this myself hahaha, would’ve loved something like that back then!

I’ve also looked at an idea liked this, what stopped me was anti-cheat engines. They will usually block playing in a VM and there is no real way to trick them into thinking you’re not in a VM.

If that’s what works best for you, I don’t agree that having multiple boxes for different purposes linked by network is ugly. This is often what you see in enterprise and should bye plenty fast for your needs.

An full computer is also not a bad idea, if you want a gpu for transcoding it could be good. Honestly I found in most cases CPU transcoding with modern CPUs was quite good. If you go the GPU route, I would simply look for a used, cheap GPU it should do the trick!

Were you playing over ethernet or WiFi? Latency over ethernet is quite good. unless playing something like smash I never felt it.