What computer/OS are you using?

[Goujer (she/her)]

Recently I used my remaining bitcoin to upgrade to a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT from Yenston. It's got an anime girl on it and it's fans are pink, purple and cyan. The thing ROCKS!

[Nanami Madobe Fan]

Recently I used my remaining bitcoin to upgrade to a AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT from Yenston. It's got an anime girl on it and it's fans are pink, purple and cyan. The thing ROCKS!

Are you still using Windows?

[Goujer (she/her)]

Are you still using Windows?

For now.

[Nanami Madobe Fan]

For now.

When will you switch OSes?

[Goujer (she/her)]

When will you switch OSes?

When Windows 10 support drops.

[Nanami Madobe Fan]

When Windows 10 support drops.

Okay cool what will you switch to after this?

[Goujer (she/her)]

Okay cool what will you switch to after this?

Linux Mint, because it's the only Linux between Arch, Debian, Ubuntu and more that I've found to work well for me.

[Nanami Madobe Fan]

Linux Mint, because it's the only Linux between Arch, Debian, Ubuntu and more that I've found to work well for me.

Okay cool I may go with Zorin OS in the future.

[Hālian He/him]

Update: I've built a new computer, named Fireblade, which dual-boots Windows 7 and Artix Linux.

Moonglow no longer runs Mac OS.

Fireblade now has an RX 6700 XT and triple-boots Windows 10, CachyOS (Arch-based btw), and Mac OS. Moonglow now belongs to my mom, as I've since obtained Jardin, an M1 MacBook Air from Walmart.

[Dr. Kraus]

Main Home Server has been upgraded
Just a couple of Western Digital 10TB Red Plus drives were added since my aging Seagate Ironwolf 6TB drives have been getting some minor read errors.

Since I've never posted this build's specs here they are:

Motherboard
ASROCK mITX AM4
RAM
GSKILL 32GB DDR4 2133mhz
CPU / GPU
AMD Ryzen 5 4600G 3.7GHz
Drives
512gb Toshiba m.2 NVMe
2x 10TB WD Red Plus
2x 6TB Seagate Ironwolf NAS
1x 8TB WD Black
PSU
Seasonic Focus SGX 850W
Case
Jonsbo N1
OS
Windows Server 2019 Standard
Services Running

• Jellyfin Media Server
• Local AI LLM with OLLAMA (VM)
• Webserver (LAMP VM)
• Private Game Servers (AMP VM)
• Immich photo service (VM)

Nothing too crazy but for a handful of years now I've run the Jellyfin service primarily on this system along side using it as a learning tool for my Microsoft server admin certs. Jellyfin is great, works for my needs as a Netflix/MAX/Amazon/etc. replacement for media consumption.

I've got a huge network pipe here at home, 1.2GBps up and down over fiber... took 9 years for the infrastructure to show up but now that it's here I can't imagine dropping my speeds.

[Nanami Madobe Fan]

Main Home Server has been upgraded
Just a couple of Western Digital 10TB Red Plus drives were added since my aging Seagate Ironwolf 6TB drives have been getting some minor read errors.

Since I've never posted this build's specs here they are:

Motherboard
ASROCK mITX AM4
RAM
GSKILL 32GB DDR4 2133mhz
CPU / GPU
AMD Ryzen 5 4600G 3.7GHz
Drives
512gb Toshiba m.2 NVMe
2x 10TB WD Red Plus
2x 6TB Seagate Ironwolf NAS
1x 8TB WD Black
PSU
Seasonic Focus SGX 850W
Case
Jonsbo N1
OS
Windows Server 2019 Standard
Services Running

• Jellyfin Media Server
• Local AI LLM with OLLAMA (VM)
• Webserver (LAMP VM)
• Private Game Servers (AMP VM)
• Immich photo service (VM)

Nothing too crazy but for a handful of years now I've run the Jellyfin service primarily on this system along side using it as a learning tool for my Microsoft server admin certs. Jellyfin is great, works for my needs as a Netflix/MAX/Amazon/etc. replacement for media consumption.

I've got a huge network pipe here at home, 1.2GBps up and down over fiber... took 9 years for the infrastructure to show up but now that it's here I can't imagine dropping my speeds.

Why are you running Windows on it since Ubuntu would make for a better Server OS.

[Dr. Kraus]

Why are you running Windows on it since Ubuntu would make for a better Server OS.

using it as a learning tool for my Microsoft server admin certs

I'm a system administrator that works 90% of the time in a complete windows environment, server to client. I mainly use it on my home server because it's what I'm most familiar with, I have the extra compute power to run it, and it aligns with my workplace environment. I do run a couple of ubuntu/debian servers on other spare boxes I have, mainly for small game servers and web servers that mainly handle static pages.

Do I really like Windows desktop/server? Nope, I much preferred Windows 7 and even kinda liked windows 10. I only run Windows 11 / Windows Server 2019 on my personal machine and home server so I can easily work alongside my workplace environment. Some day I'd like to move my workplace's servers off of windows, they are mainly just domain controllers that manage user creds and group policy along with serving as simple SMB shares auto configured to end-users with gp.

My opinion, as a sys-admin, is that I need to be familiar with as many working environments as possible both server side and client side. If I run something at work, I'll do it at home to keep things aligned and easy to handle.