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?

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.

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

Beats Kodi.

iOS used to be an absolute pain in the ass. Had to scratch my head for several days a few years ago. I believe it was iOS 15. Forcing SSL and self-signed certs with some odd flags finally did it but it was not straightforward. Good luck reading logs on an iPad. Unfortunately I don't remember any specifics.

Other than that I've had zero issues with Baikal for the last couple of years. Roughly 15 devices (iOS, Android, Windows, Linux), and 5 users each with multiple calendars, tasks, contacts, notes etc. and everything just works. DAVx is excellent if you use Android as CalDAV isn't natively supported for some reason.

But I get your point. CalDAV as a standard has always felt a bit... Janky? It never left the early 2000s. So setting up a CalDAV server in 2024 isn't particularly difficult but everyone wants their own implementation. And your server/client combo probably require you to find some obscure forum post from 2009 and reading the man pages several times before you find that one specific fucking legacy parameter in some config file that has to be set.

You could always set up your own Exchange server though if you're a true masochist.

I remember the opposite - the discussions on Reddit had some quality threads with depth and actual knowledge. Someone would post a pic of some random ebay haul and they would receive 10 replies suggesting what they should have gotten instead, along with 18 bullet points explaining why.

The threads here are either people asking how to set up some crappy *arr service on their first raspberry or why god created Jellyfin on the seventh day and not the first.

I've been waiting since the exodus for the quality to increase here... Still hoping.

I guess it depends on the use case. If you prioritize network and zfs performance, sure. There's a reason why the Netflix CDN or your router runs some BSD derivate.

I'd argue that the jails are a feature that hasn't been replicated. Each jail is a container and can be set up as an isolated environment with its own filesystem, network stack, set of user accounts etc. I know there are a few similar solutions on linux but nothing that is so deeply integrated.

Yes, of course. I believe it was a NetBSD developer who initially wrote 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.

Any CalDAV server will do. All events are synced across all properly configured devices. No need for emailing individual events. Radicale is an exception. I also find it too simple/barebones.

I have been running Baïkal for years. Multiple users and devices (iOS, Android, MacOS, Linux, Windows etc) with multiple calendars per user, a decent admin web ui, pretty lightweight, easy to install and configure and zero maintenance.

Or just set up your own exchange server.

Personally I miss a calendar frontend that can be used directly in a web browser. Like Google calendar but with everything living on my own server.

Scheduling and event management should be done in a client if you ask me.