I also have a 5700xt and was hoping with what AMD had been saying about stock to pick up a 9079xt at MSRP. But then the sites that had them all died and I couldn’t get to the checkout. I’m now waiting for things to hopefully recover to normality in the summer.

The “PC” in that statement is doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Who do you think I am?

If you want people to pronounce your project name correctly you should spell it that way. Having a FAQ on pronunciation means you’ve messed up and lost already. Want it to be called “Engine X”? Call it “Engine X”.

My favourite is SAP not wanting people to call it Sap but to spell it out S.A.P. Well sorry, but it’s a CVC word, literally the first kind of word everyone learns.

I still maintain that Emby is better than Jellyfin. I try it again maybe once a year and every time I end up back on Emby. It just runs better, works pretty flawlessly and doesn’t lose my libraries every so often. Music playback is better by far on Emby and that’s my main usecase.

Hardware decoding would be nice, but I don’t have a system I could use this on for either and I’ve not had trouble without it.

I really only used it for syncing photos from my phone so I went to Syncthing. The NC web interface I found far too slow to be any use, so I just mount network shares over NFS.

And that is why I no longer run Nextcloud

Thank you to everyone who helped here. The monitor arrived this evening. Got it all setup with 2x 27" 1440 screens on arms connected over DP. KDE identified it straight away and ran at the full 180Hz with no configuration. Only thing I had to do was set the scaling to 100% instead of 125%. Played some Doom at a solid 180fps and it’s really nice. Then some Metro Exodus where I get between 60 and 110, all looks lovely. The colours are pretty similar to my 27" Dell, but I haven’t tried matching them 100% accurately.

Well done Linux devs for making this possible and easy.

PS, I should have had my second monitor on an arm years ago!

Others have stated how they’re different already. To an end user the difference is that EndeavourOS is incredibly good, whereas Manjaro is a bit pants.

Been running EndeavourOS for a few years now and it really is the best desktop OS I’ve ever used. It’s up to date, fast, always works, looks beautiful and an update is just a yay away.

Sounds like a good plan to me

I’ve switched to restic for my backups and have been very happy with it. Very fast, encrypted and snapshot history.

RAID gives you greater uptime. That is all. You should also have backups. So how much uptime do you need?

Backups only used blocks. Backup to or from various locations, NFS shares, ftp, WebDAV, ssh server, samba, etc. Encryption of the images, backup of single partitions or whole disks.

If you want to deploy to several machines at once it also has a load of tools for that too.

You 100% want to use Clonezilla for this job. It should be on everyone’s Ventoy stick.

Who has more chance of a single disk failing today: me with 6 disks, or Backblaze with their 300,000 drives?

Same thing works with 6 vs 2.

Seagate “raw read error rate” is a terrifyingly big number if everything is hunky dory.

They’re in a drafty garage. This time of year I keep them spinning to stop them freezing 🤣

Yeah flat out spinning is definitely better for reliability.

The reason I went RAIDZ2 in my current setup was because of the number of disks increasing the chance of multi failures. But with fewer disks that goes down. I’m not at all worried about data loss, as I said I have good backups so I can always restore. So if the remaining disk dies during a rebuild, that’s unfortunate, but it only affects my uptime, not my data.