Absolutely agree. My DD distro accidentally gets borked sometimes as fiddling can go too far, and it’s become essential that it doesn’t interfere with services my wife uses (file storage, movies/tv, etc). Plus, if everything was going down every so often, she’d probably start looking at me twice for the money I’ve invested in my server rack.

I have one box running TrueNas Core as a straight file server only, and another box running Proxmox for applications plus VMs for projects, as well as network gear and a surveillance NVR. Thankfully, she never sees the power bill. But, this way everything keeps humming and I don’t get an earful.

https://store.steampowered.com/steamos/download/?ver=steamdeck

It’s a recovery image, but can be used for a fresh PC install.

Perhaps it may not be a bad idea to dual boot Arch and SteamOS or BazziteOS until you get the hang of Arch. While Arch is a very flexible system, accidents happen, and it’d be a shame to lose game progress due to system breakage.

And fyi, Konsole is simply a terminal application for your command line. Personally I don’t really mess with flatpaks, and I suggest getting familiar with pacman (Arch’s package manager) and the AUR.

Eh it’s a lot of hq BluRay rips of disks I don’t have anymore. I could reacquire and rerip, but it’d be a total pita. The rest is personal docs/photos/etc. I’ve been spitballing sticking a NAS at my mom’s, but money’s tight right now.

DVDs also go shitty after a while (many years, but still).

Looks at my 60tb media archive

There’s got to be a cheaper way.

But can you really jam it?