I use Cloudflare as my registrar and public DNS. And only for that. Sorry but they don’t get to peek at my network traffic.

Indeed. I haven’t run into a modern game that it can’t handle. The only thing it has struggled with that I play is old Command & Conquer titles, but that’s a Proton issue.

I can’t imagine a different distro would be any different.

BZZZZZZZZZZZT I’m sorry but that answer was not correct. Next player!

Seriously try some of the other distros and you’ll have a much more pleasant experience. I already recommended Tumbleweed in another reply but man, anything but Arch is gonna be an improvement for somebody trying to make the switch from Windows gaming for the first time.

I switched my gaming PC to Linux a few months back. I distro hopped for a while due to various issues, and landed on openSUSE Tumbleweed. Everything just works (except for the occasional bug in the updates where I have to wait for the next snapshot for a fix, but that’s NBD).

Caveat: I’m all AMD so no Nvidia stuff to worry about. YMMV.

On-premises. Please, for the love of god.

Like it a lot. It’s Firefox without ever having to worry about an update sneaking in more telemetry.

Never had an issue. Every time I see a headline about how Google is trying to screw over adblockers again, I check and… everything works fine.

I use Librewolf these days, but same difference.

Resurrecting this ancient post of mine to say that I finally figured this out. The problem was that my internal certificate on the Bitwarden server had a validity period of several years. When I read an article about the time limitations Apple imposed in iOS for certificates, it clicked that this might be the problem even though the errors I was getting were seemingly unrelated.

Sure enough, I changed the cert to one with a 1 year expiration and the app works fine on my iPhone now.

Just posting this in case anyone else stumbles across this post after seeing the same kind of errors. I still don’t like that Apple arbitrarily imposed this limit on my own device with my own server and my own CA, but it’s easy enough to work around.

They are making Cloud Microsoft sysadmins, as opposed to on-premises sysadmins. Which means the new crop of admins are just high tier application admins, and have no idea how to manage infrastructure, configure hardware, or actually troubleshoot problems with the application, since they don’t have access to it at that level. All of this makes businesses more and more reliant on the cloud, which is exactly what these providers want.

These companies are so short sighted. They are destroying the ability for the people who might push this software for use in a business environment to use it at home, test it out, learn it. This depletes the pool of experts and supporters that would expand their product’s use over time.

Microsoft and VMware are the worst offenders at the moment. I feel if you’re a competent on-premises Microsoft sysadmin you’ll have work for the rest of your life, because they aren’t MAKING on-premises Microsoft sysadmins anymore.

*edited my last sentence for clarity

Dethrones? No. Not in the sense it will overtake Windows in numbers.

Grows its gamer ‘market share’? Absolutely.

It’s bursty; I tend to do a lot of work on stuff when I do a hardware upgrade, but otherwise it’s set it and forget it for the most part. The only servers I pay any significant attention to in terms of frequent maintenance and security checks are the MTAs in the DMZ for my email. Nothing else is exposed to the internet for inbound traffic except a game server VM that’s segregated (credential-wise and network-wise) from everything else, so if it does get compromised it would be a very minimal danger to the rest of my network. Everything either has automated updates, or for servers I want more control over I manually update them when the mood strikes me or a big vulnerability that affects my software hits the news.

TL;DR If you averaged it over a year, I maybe spend 30-60 minutes a week on self hosting maintenance tasks for 4 physical servers and about 20 VM’s.

Yeah, I switched from arrow keys to ESDF going from Doom to Quake. WASD wasn’t the ‘default’ yet back then. And by the time it got annoying with new games coming out, muscle memory was already there. If I could go back in time and do that over, it would save me at least several days of my life rebinding stuff over the years, lol.

xmodmap

I like this, it’s very easy to understand the config file. I would like application specific mappings so I’m going to try keyd first, but I’ll keep this in my back pocket. Thanks!

That looks perfect, thanks!

It never occurred to me to see if Steam could do this remapping without using a controller. I’ll have to investigate! Good tip, thanks.

That looks similar to the other one I tried, so I don’t think it will work. The problem comes into play when holding down a key - the text expanders generally won’t repeat the key properly to work in the game for continuous movement.

Looks like a cool tool though and I’m going to check it out for other uses! Thanks!

I just went through this exercise myself. 7800x3d with a 7900xt and Asus x670e-e mobi. My only recommendation is to make sure you pick a distro with newish hardware support. I started on Mint but had a lot of hardware troubles (mostly audio related) even with their newest kernel. Switched to Manjaro and the hardware issues were all resolved by the newer kernel and alsalib packages. Wasn’t crazy about their package manager though so I ended up on Tumbleweed and it’s smooth sailing so far.

I see no issues with your plan otherwise. The only caution I’d give is if you plan to get a beefier GPU later you’ll also need to upgrade the power supply, but looks fine with the parts you’ve picked.

OPNsense all the way. I run it in a VM. I ran PFsense for years then finally went through the pain of migrating. It was worth it for the UI improvements alone. PFsense also corrupted itself twice in about 4-5 years of running it, requiring restores from VM snapshots. OPNsense has been rock solid but it’s only been 2 years since I migrated.

I have used openwrt but only for a WiFi AP, not as a real router. I’ve since moved to a Unifi AP which works fine, but I won’t buy their stuff again for other reasons.

I ran it on Hyper-V for many years. Still running OPNsense that way. It manages 4 VLANS, RDNSBL, a metric ass ton of firewall rules, and several VPN clients and gateways, with just 2GB of ram and 4 virtual procs. It works and doesn’t even breathe hard.