In addition to other advice, with only hardware, have 1 cold spare drive for every 2 years of remaining life of the hardware. It gets difficult to find similar spec drives the older they get. So if you want to use the drives in the NAS for another 4 years, get 2 spares. After that you start getting into the territory of replacing the drives anyway.
My rule for older hardware, before trusting the ZFS fault reporting, I would follow the following steps.
(Note these are homelabber steps and not what I would do in the enterprise, where risk and time is a lot more expensive than replacing hardware)
Check the Smart data of the drive. If it reports the drive as faulty, replace it.
Zpool clear the error and see if it comes back. Sometimes drive errors are not cause by the drive itself
Reseat the drive and the cables between the motherboard and the drive. Clear errors after this step. Especially with older hardware and it having travelled from its previous owner to you, something might not be seated properly.
Move the drive to another drive bay, or swap it with another drive. If the errors move with the drive, the drive is faulty. If the errors move to the bay, you probably have a good drive, but a faulty drive bay/cable.
He just needs to stay on the 580 driver. Bazzite is handling that transparently and wont update you to the 590 driver if you have an unsupported GPU.
Then next time round, buy an AMD or Intel GPU. They tend tp treat their customers better.
Zorin OS makes it easier with their Gnome skins and their touch input preset theme.
Its basically Ubuntu LTS underneath the custom UI changes. Similar to Mint’s approach, but still using Gnome.
Laptops make excellent low power draw servers. Disabling the laptop lid switch is typically trivial. (Tickbox usually)
Also running x86 is an advantage over SBCs like the raspberry pi. Also, use what you have before you buy anything.
Open Transport Tycoon.
It does. I just checked.
Edit: my guest is running Debian 12, but I dont see why Truenas would be different.
I believe that was a KVM bug that got fixed a few years ago.
Also, you need to pass through disks by ID (the current default in proxmox Gui) and not by /dev/sdX
Video editing with open source software is still a bit rough on Linux, Kdenlive is there, but you will probably have a much better experience with Davinci Resolve. They have native linux support and most distros are well supported.
Mint should be fine for that. What I think this poster is encountering is that Mint does not always run well on the latest and greatest hardware. The Mint team favours a well tested and older base.
Bazzite and Fedora are a bit friendlier to newer hardware, but not quite as bleeding edge as Arch bases Distros.
Remember that starting with Mint and migrating to something else a year later is a normal and healthy Linux journey, as is staying on Mint for years.
Welcome to having choice! And in my opinion, being an kick ass partner
You taking the inititive is 90% of the reward right there. Sharing is the best part of Tech.
My exprience with Trunas has been that ZFS does not like virtual disks. Especially when the Proxmox host also uses ZFS. Two layers of ZFS arc caching creates some memory issues. Setting the Host datasets to Metadata only may help.
But the most reliable method would be doing hardware passthrough of physical disks to the VM. It gets you most of the bare metal reliability benefits without having to commit the entire hardware box to one OS.
You may also want to disable memory ballooning in your VMs. It works well when you have lots of small VMs, but if you have a few large ones, it can cause issues if you overallocate Ram to VMs, beyond what the OS has available. I suspect it could also be interferring the zfs arc as well.
Lastly, check that your VM is set to use the “host” Cpu type. Freenas would likely benefit from having access to more CPU functions.
For us its the lack of proper multi-monitor support in the hardware. We have triple 27inch monitor setups on our desks with thunderbolt docks.
Plug a windows or Linux laptop into them no problem, single cable solution and 4 distinct displays. Plug a Mac into it and the best you get is two displays with the 3 external displays all showing the same image. Stupid arbitrary Apple limits.
Plus the Apple hardware is so fragile and difficult to repair. We mostly stick to Dell Latitudes, HP Elitebooks and Lenovo T series because of the better hardware.
Most people dont need more than 10 hours battery life. If you do, you are probably one of those people who always forget to charge their phones anyway.
We are an MSP for small business. We have been a strict linux server environment for 10+ years.
On the desktop side, we have a few clients running Linux mint desktops and laptops now. Mostly for 2nd line personel, or roles where only browsers are required. We run microsoft Edge Browser on those devices for Office 365 usage and because firefox based browsers are so hit and miss with business web apps these days. We have our RMM tool to manage configurations and run our own Rustdesk instance for remote support.
The main impediment for larger adoption we see is still 3rd party app support. Desktop Excel being the primary one. Online Excel and LibreOffice is still not quite there in terms of some features for intermediate users. Whatsapp desktop app for voice calls with clients are also a major one in our country. Its a windows store app, which I have not been able to find a way to get connected to wine.
What we need is a proton like project for business applications. Proton has likely already done half the work. Once Office and windows store apps installs work as smoothly as games under steam, adoption can start at a larger scale.
The question is which company is going to make that investment. Canonical is too close to Microsoft and wont want to upset that relationship. And Red Hat always seems to be stuck in their own world. Other teams with the insight to tackle such a project, are probably too small, or do not have the financial backing or incentive for it.
You can use CTRL+R to search you command history. Much faster thst hitting the up arrow. I am sure she will turn up.
There are some benefits, but its situational and only affects you while your hardware is very new. Eventually the base kernel catches up in most cases.
Its like buying a pre-built PC vs a custom PC.
They do the same things at the end of the day, but the the custom PC converts the extra time investment into a result that gives better performance and is more suited to your needs.
Ubuntu LTS based distro. Heavily customized Gnome to make it more familiar for those coming from windows. They have a paid support tier for some business and enterprise features.
Think you commented in the wrong thread.
Both have an Ubuntu base
Mint develops their own desktop called Cinnamon which is like a cross between Gnome2 and windows 7 UIs. Its looks a bit bland, but some people prefer that.
Zorin uses Gnome3, but is heavily customized to give people a choice between windows 7, windows 10 or MacOS type experiences. The UI does look a lot more modern than mint in the looks department. They also have a commercial support option.
Both have a pretty good suite of software for customization and management.
Personally I’m loving Bazzite, which is Fedora based with a lot of customizations for gaming and modern hardware. It’s also immutable, which makes it difficult to break.
If you get stuck with Winboat, as its still a very new project, you might want to have a look at winapps, which is very similar
https://github.com/winapps-org/winapps