Ah I see. I guess it makes sense to squeeze out every single % in such cases.

also I had to set my CPU governor to performance

I believe most DE has an addon or equivalent for setting that.

How much of the tweaking is actually noticeable? Not trying to be a dick here. I’m so old that we didn’t use to have GPUs, we had graphics cards and nobody had a “rig”. Overclocking or hardware mods was the only way if you weren’t willing to spend money on new hardware. Not saying Bazzite is that kind of distro but I’m so old I don’t trust some spazzed out maintainer with cat ears and a discord channel. Let me break my own shit, you don’t have to do it for me.

I have the exact same experience as you with Debian 11-13 and gaming. Both with Nvidia and AMD cards, various chipsets etc. Everything works. Sometimes after reading a few lines of official documentation and installing a package or two but that’s about it.

The only thing that ever required some head scratching was the infamous EA and Rockstar launcher but that’s not a Debian or even a Linux problem… Everything else is identical to windows. Click install. Wait. Click play. Everything works in-game. What am I missing?

Hardware is boring. Doing some research is boring. People don’t care about boring stuff. Or their data.

“Let’s put every single family photo taken between 1976 and today on this and only this one shitty drive. And let me spin up an Immich container on my trusty raspberry. I have watched a YouTube video or two in my days. I think I know what I’m doing.”

Bonus points for “but ssh is all you need”, “static electricity has never been a problem for me” and “what gpu do you recommend for jellyfin?”.

Wasn’t obvious as I only saw thetvdb and don’t watch anime. This isn’t a unique issue for anime though. It’s an ancient problem at this point and without a simple solution.

Edit: huh, so medusa does support using AniDB as a backend. I seem to remember it didn’t or that there was some issue with it.

Perhaps it was added later.

If an alternative to sonarr existed

Flexget, Medusa

Overseerr

Ombi

The *arr stack is an abomination.

Having to manually handle shows my friends and family want to watch us not happening.

Your providing a free service, right?.. Dont forget to enjoy it yourself. Unless you serve 100 “friends” like everyone else. Then enjoy the money.

Norway has had the highest subsidies for electric vehicles in the world. Not sure how it is nowadays but if they aren’t number one they’re definitely in the top. I live in Scandinavia but not in Norway. This is only what I can remember, there may be more:

• No registration fee. It’s like 10 000 USD for a diesel.
• No VAT/taxes on the purchase
• No congestion fees
• Allowed to drive in bus lanes
• Free parking
• No toll fees (and there are tolls absolutely everywhere)

You can get a brand new Model Y in Norway for about 40 000 USD.

Just for comparison: that’s roughly what a new premium car costs in neighbouring countries. Add 10K if you want it to be electric. 20k if you want more range than a few km and any kind of comfort and quality.

TrueNAS might be a good middle ground then. Haven’t used it myself but I’ve heard a lot of good stuff about it (and it’s predecessor).

It really comes down to personal preference. A pure Linux distribution for example is certainly more flexible and will absolutely do everything and more that TrueNAS does. But a nice gui where everything just works and does exactly what you need sounds x100 times better than spending a whole weekend trying to fix something that you borked by accident. And if you want to learn how things work under the hood later on, you can do it at your own pace. At a certain point those terminal commands will stop being esoteric and start making sense.

If you have some old hardware just lying around, then install it and try it out. Just dip your toes and evaluate for a few days/weeks.

Also - after some quick googling. Mounting your windows disks shouldn’t be a problem. So no need for some temporary/intermediate storage unless you want another backup.

I also have a Pi with HomeAssistant that I’d like to migrate

I would (read: does) keep it that way. When your server inevitably goes belly up because of a misconfigured firewall or whatever you’ll thank yourself when the lights still turn on and your robot vacuum keeps going. No stress to fix things. And when your SD card eventually dies you just pop in the backup card you have lying around.

I am wanting to do this in the most efficient and economical way but I’m not sure what the best path to choose is.

What’s wrong with keeping your old hardware? Spend some money on a silent quality case, a few quiet fans, a suitable power supply and some disks. The rest can be bought used if you need it, dirt cheap. Find a somewhat new Supermicro motherboard with a mounted CPU on eBay for a few bucks and be done with it. It doesn’t sound like you need a monster machine. Some overhead is always nice, sure, but you can always upgrade in the future.

Migrating data is a PITA no matter what so can’t help you there.

As for the OS. “Not Windows” is probably a bit intimidating at first but you seem to be pretty technical so it isn’t really an issue as long as you can read and process information. Do some reading on Debian or FreeBSD (or both). BSD isn’t Linux but if you’re not familiar with either one it doesn’t really matter. Just a matter of taste. Try them in VirtualBox and see for yourself how you feel.

And let us know when you buy your first rack. It’s just a matter of time.

Just filter out all users who are obnoxious. Let them have their echo chamber.

Beats Kodi.

Are you hellbent on using Jellyfin? It’s basically a Kodi for dummies where they removed the best parts, kept the worst and and slapped on a pretty ui. It’s bloated behind the scenes and does have it quirks.

An alternative could be to just set up an NFS share with your media and use whatever player you like. Nova video player on Google/Android TV isn’t as pretty as Jellyfin but it gets the work done.

I’ve had zero issues with Infuse on apple tv. Easy to navigate, looks good and plays stuff on my network shares. I think there is support for adding a Jellyfin library as a source as well but I haven’t tried it.

For a server - it’s fantastic if you’re a reasonable adult and if you don’t have a compulsive need to install every shiny new “app” you find on the internet. Terrible if you hate reading any kind of documentation. Terrible if you already decided that some of its core concepts are stupid and try to force stuff in order to mimic your favorite Linux dist.

Takes some knowledge and planning to set everything up properly but when it works, it works forever.

ZFS works as intended. I hear that it’s miles better these days though in Linux.

Jails will make your life so much easier.

If the software isn’t available in the ports tree you don’t need it. You may want it but you really don’t need it (bro just download my Docker image, I wrote a webserver in rust bro I promise it’s super stable and it’s never been done before bro). Enable Linux binary compatibility or fire up a virtual machine with a tiny dist if you’re a masochist.

I personally like the default firewall, pf. It’s got a bad reputation in some circles though.

No systemd.

No systemd.

No systemd.