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Yeah maybe. I just read it as it’s personal stuff based on this line.

I manage a very large OpenStack cluster for my day job and we just give people what they pay for.

Just for yourself? Why not rent or colo a dedicated server or two or three and install a hypervisor? What all do you even run for yourself that needs 25 servers?

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😊 for the most part you can just use the tar command to back stuff up in the most half-assed way.

For example: sudo tar cvzf /tmp/backup.tgz /home/

Or change /home/ to whatever directory has stuff you care about.

Then plug in a USB drive and copy /tmp/backup.tgz with the gui and it should contain your user data if you need it. It’s pretty much like making a zip file for a backup…

Then this to delete the backup file: sudo rm /tmp/backup.tgz

tar xvf ./backup.tgz to extract it or just use the gui.

My friends have asked me to do basic Linux stuff for them in my off hours and I generally oblige, if it seems quick and I know they are not going to call me having a meltdown in a few weeks if something unrelated breaks. Especially since it sounds like you already put in quite a bit of legwork trying on your own.

I wish I could help more but I’ve gone out of my way to not use Nvidia or Intel products for over a decade. So I have no idea. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I think that the Nvidia webpage has like a .run file you can use to install them but that might just make things worse…

Try asking here you will probably get the best answer: https://forum.zorin.com/c/hardware-support/7

I tried this it was so loud. I’m not sure if since it’s the future you can buy a quiet rack mount servers. a few years ago I was doing a home rack in a small space was pretty much a space heater/airport plane takeoff sound simulator. I still have a mini rack but I basically use it to hold smaller computers from minisform or beelink. The DDR5 models make perfect hypervisors and they are cheap enough to cluster without feeling like you are killing the environment.

Although I do turn some older severs on in the winter to keep warm rather than use a space heater.

I feel like your just not using the proprietary drivers on amd it matters less but I hear the free Nvidia ones are not the best. See if your friend can help you install them or if you go it alone take a backup so you can restore it if you need without getting your hands dirty with the commandline.

https://help.zorin.com/docs/hardware/activate-nvidia-drivers/ https://help.zorin.com/docs/hardware/activate-amd-radeon-drivers/

It looks like the zorin process for doing it is pretty straightforward. I get better performance on my amd system using the propitiatory drivers than on Windows. Desktop Linux has moved forward pretty quickly.

Honestly you are not really missing much unless you need it. If it’s working for you keep using what works!

Pretty much the only difference is desktop environment and being able to tweek stuff like the graphics drivers, the package manager for installing programs/updates but zorin and mint are pretty much just Ubuntu at the end of the day that someone made more friendly.

I would recommend you use the Linux alternative as much as you can rather than using wine to run exe files. In my experience steam native runs way better than running steam/games with wine.

For office stuff it can be like pulling teeth but thankfully most of it has functional web versions.

If you are scared of the command line start by just running stuff like firefox or chrome in it rather than the start menu. If you forget the command the tab key can usually guide you. Also “man command” will show a full manual for any command. Eventually there comes a point that it’s faster and easier than doing things with the commandline and people will think you have leet hacking skills.

Thanks for the zorin recommendation I’m going to give it a try in a virtual machine and check it out. It looks like a perfect new person recordation.

How did you arrive at zorin? Not knocking it my first Linux install was lindows… How’s it working out for you are you still using it?

Zfs I lost so much data trying to use btrfs. And zvols are neat.

Thanks that’s kind of what I was thinking. Have you used cloudflared before?

I really want to figure out if it’s possible to stick it behind cloudflare or something. I would rather not expose any IP address directly to the internet. I’m leaning on just setting up a reverse proxy on a cheap cloud instance back to my home.

How are you routing it to the internet?

How fast is the disk use growing for you?

I have a beelink ser6 non pro and also this Um773

They both should be more than enough to run what you want.

There is also something like this if you want lower power but I’m kind waiting out a 64gb ddr5 model.

How much do you want to spend?

Can you point me in that direction I fell into the zero-trust stuff?

Look into tailscale it was really easy to setup for a VPN. You can expose web services with cloudflare and a domain name.