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1.14L . Didn't really liked their OS (Its pretty much bare minimum). Tried Xpenology, Unraid and then settled in again on Truenas Scale!
only reason is the size, else a custom PC would have costed less than 50k! Easier to shove in a cabinet.
 
its same across, they gave good amount of space between each drive for the air to pass.

In doing so, they did it on up and down aswell. There is absolutely no noise suppression and rubber things, the drives were rattling like anything! Had to apply the velcro to calm them down.
 
Tracer_Bullet said:
What do you miss from pc pov ?
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I agree, we can have many choices as we are assembling.

But the PC misses out on some basics. Take the mic, for example. I have gone through several iterations of hardware to get the mic working for meetings and recordings. Every time I start a meeting or an OBS recording, I have to flip numerous switches to get it working perfectly.

With PCs, it can become a matter of trial and error.
 
Kloud said:
I agree, we can have many choices as we are assembling.

But the PC misses out on some basics. Take the mic, for example. I have gone through several iterations of hardware to get the mic working for meetings and recordings. Every time I start a meeting or an OBS recording, I have to flip numerous switches to get it working perfectly.

With PCs, it can become a matter of trial and error.
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I have a wireless (2.4GHz) headphone with mic, no issue for me. I use it on mac as well, no issues there as well.

While mac OS is reliable/stable vs Win11, I hate the lack of some options & bad UX of certain things (like mouse scroll direction, quit vs close, file manager, etc), so it is worse than Win11 for me & I rate Win11 as "not good" because of enshittification. Considering how good Android has become over the years, Windows is just not improving themselves with time IMO. I feel there are no good PC OSes in the market for me, I hope SteamOS improves the user friendliness part of Linux-based OSes.
 
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OMEGA44-XT said:
I feel there are no good PC OSes in the market for me, I hope SteamOS improves the user friendliness part of Linux-based OSes.
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There is initial learning curve i guess, but i just prefer linux over windows for maybe more than a decade now.
KDE is great. I work only in Linux now.

yeah, i hope steamos is good and hassle free.
Amd has better oob open gpu drivers for linux, steam os/bazzite i have heard is already working well for amd cards.

Haven't tested it out as i have Nvidia card.
I am waiting for oob stable working HDR support before trying it out and dumping windows even for most of gaming.
That's all in progress now, even with firefox, so hopefully within a year or two.

Tools matter too, afterburner/reshade/specialK for me.
AMD has easy builtin way to manage undervolt/oc on Linux. Nvidia, dunno.
 
Finally done with the setup

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OMEGA44-XT said:
I have a wireless (2.4GHz) headphone with mic, no issue for me. I use it on mac as well, no issues there as well.

While mac OS is reliable/stable vs Win11, I hate the lack of some options & bad UX of certain things (like mouse scroll direction, quit vs close, file manager, etc), so it is worse than Win11 for me & I rate Win11 as "not good" because of enshittification. Considering how good Android has become over the years, Windows is just not improving themselves with time IMO. I feel there are no good PC OSes in the market for me, I hope SteamOS improves the user friendliness part of Linux-based OSes.
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Mouse scroll direction is a one click change now.
File manager is fine. A few things in it are solved by tinker tool. There are other more powerful file managers you can install. Out of the box, yes it needs 30mins of setting up.
 
vishalrao said:
How do you handle silly vendors that require Windows for things like firmware updates (SSDs etc) or maybe apps that require (or are only available on) Windows?
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I rarely ever do firmware updates and i do play on windows so its not 100% linux.
But most of my non gaming time on pc is on linux and 100% for work.

I haven't tried firmware updates via linux and i dont need any app that is not on linux.
Maybe this helps, dunno. Better search for user experience too.

For my work, i replaced them with my own tools. Not an option for all i guess. There is wine/proton or VM that someone might use.
But dual boot works too. LTSC isnt too bad, i just wont use retail shitware.
 
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Heisen said:
One major problem with linux.

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I did not watch it. Its a bit old too and things change. Just my view over major bullet points having used Arch linux for a long time and now ubuntu LTS.
yes i did not watch it so maybe i am losing context and info.

1) Application distribution is a huge PITA
As a user, i just have to install from package manager or things like snap and similar. It just works for me, i dont have to search for exe. Everything can be updated with 1 command too.

2) Distros break things and ignore backwards compat.
Dunno, will need to watch which i am not doing. Ubuntu LTS is perfectly stable for me. Things dont break.
This might be more relevant for linux app developers as things move quickly.

3) Distros waste too much effort on package management
Again, not relevant as a user. For us its very easy to install and update apps as long as they are in repo, and we have snap/flatpak for things outside.

4) Windows has a better app distribution experience
For things within repo, i hugely prefer linux. Its easy to install and update. But yes, if you need something not available then it might be worse.
There is snap/flatpak now for that use case, but not every app will be available i guess.

5) Linux distros expect users to compile everything
Dunno what he means. I think context might explain it.
As a normal user who just installs apps and uses them in normal distros - there is 0 manual compilation needed. Nothing.
 
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