They are 4 year old GPUs. They’re still getting updates, just not new features. This isn’t saying they are end of life products. Just discontinued and on maintenance updates.

They’ve moved older GPUs into maintenance mode since they’ve gone into the GPU business. Not sure why its an issue in 2025 when it was never an issue before.

Depends on the admin.

Arch servers are just fine. Just be sure to pay attention to Arch News to watch for manual interventions on certain updates. If anything, the older Debian packages can cause headaches occasionally. I personally use both distros as servers for different use cases.

The *buntu LTS cycles are every two years, following along with Debian releases. The faster release cycles such as 24.10 and 25.04 lose support after 9 months, so they are short lived distros.

I personally don’t like the *buntu bloat and would just stick with KDE Debian, unless there is something specific in those you need.

The software you stated that the user will be running runs fine on Debian.

1.) Check the jellyfin logs and see what kind of errors youre getting when adding media folders.

2.) check your firewall rules on the jellyfin server, as well as your local router/switch and make sure you’re allowing access to the jellyfin port

Firmware update utilities, host OS file system encryption packages, HBA management tools, temperature monitoring, and then a lot of the packages had bugs that were resolved with newer versions, but proxmox only provided old versions.

I thought about running something like proxmox, but everything is too pooled, too specialized, or proxmox doesn’t provide the packages I want to use.

Just went with arch as the host OS and firejail or lxc any processes i want contained.

Oof

PinePhones are fairly cheap linux phone devices

Its more about the hardware than software.

• Able to have enough processing power to utilize the max speed that my ISP provides, while having IDS/IPS and other services enabled.
• Port segregation so that each port can be on its own network with a full speed backplane.
• PoE capabilities
• SPF ports to utilize both fiber and copper connections
• Multiple networks across many wireless access points

I freakin love OpenWRT. I used it for a solid 5-6 years on some consumer grade routers and learned a lot about managing networks.

Ive since moved to more powerful enterprise network gear because OpenWRT opened that door for me and taught me what is possible. I might not ever go back to it, but I will always recommend OpenWRT to people who want to rice out their routers and get the most out of it.

Is it risky to run Windows

Yes

Obviously AMD and Intel don’t include HDMI on their cards.

/s

Until its concealing its behavior by modifying files or executing processes without your knowledge, then it isn’t a rootkit. They tell you what it does, and they get your permission to install it.

Its anti cheat software that monitors your system and kernel. Not a rootkit.

Would you enable secure boot even if you’re not installing bf6?

I believe you are missing my point

Sounds like these game studios are creating horrible software on a horrible OS, but this anti cheat is still not modifying the kernel, and secure boot also is not a rootkit.

My point stands. The anti cheat doesn’t modify your kernel though. Its not a rootkit.

Secure boot won’t let your kernel be modified though.

Their anti cheat software just makes sure that you haven’t tampered with the kernel at all. It just monitors for any changes after the system has booted.

It does not modify your kernel.

Are people still parroting that secure boot is a rootkit, even though its actually designed to prevent root kits from being installed?