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  • Late reply, but I’ve got 4 proxmox nodes. TrueNAS with an HBA passed through, the arr stack, jellyfin, Home assistant, Nextcloud, bookstack, Unifi network application, Kavita, a windows VM with a 3080ti passed through that the kids can connect to using moonlight to play games on various tvs/devices. Various Linux distros to play around and test configs before I make any serious changes to my main desktop. Most recently set up graylog to pull in logs from pfsense and Unifi.

    I have an insatiable thirst to just learn!



  • They work in a pinch but even on windows they always end up causing more trouble than it’s worth. I recently got a client business, a lawyer’s office, where their previous IT got them all Startech displaylink docks. After I replaced a couple of them where the users had some lower end i3 laptops, searches they ran in their document management system finished in maybe 50% of the time.

    Good processors like the M1 you maybe can’t notice but they cripple the lower end systems.




  • Very similar to my setup as well. I have a Qotom with 5x2.5Gb NICs. It’s got a lower end processor - Intel Celeron J4125 but I haven’t noticed any performance issues with my 1.5Gb connection.

    I’ve got my proxmox cluster and my workstation on one interface with a 2.5Gb unmanaged switch, and then on another interface a Unifi 8 Lite PoE switch with 2 Unifi AP’s where all the streaming devices, wife’s and kids devices live.



  • I think I was around 13 years old, our home family computer had Windows ME on it. It broke all the time. I think I may have tried Ubuntu first on that PC but then came across SUSE and decided to replace windows with that because the KDE interface at the time (was horrendously 90’s looking) but felt more like windows. I think I ran that on the computer for a year or so before my father made me put XP on it when that was released.

    It was my first real foray into Linux and it would be many moons until I ran it full time as an adult but I have a soft spot for it.

    Edit: I think my memory is off because Ubuntu wouldn’t have been around back then… Must have tried Ubuntu later or maybe I was a bit older. In any case it was SUSE that sparked my interest in alternative operating systems, and probably why I still prefer KDE.