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  • felbane@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•[OC] But they were, all of them, deceived
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    1 month ago

    I’m not saying it’s suitable for someone trying to be a professional fortnite player, but it’s perfectly playable without noticeable latency.

    Fortnite is free on GeForce now (I think for X hours per day/session), and fully unrestricted on Luna if you already have prime.

    End of the day it lets me enjoy spending time playing a game with my kids that they love, and doesn’t cost me anything or require me to dual boot. It’s not for everyone but it’s an option for some.

  • felbane@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•[OC] But they were, all of them, deceived
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    1 month ago

    Nope, I decided to go straight into the deep end a couple years ago. I tried out a few different distros, ran Bazzite for a good while but was having issues with openvpn and my workplace’s old-ass endpoint, switched to Fedora + Plasma and haven’t touched windows at home ever since. Still have to deal with it at the office but at least that’s not my problem to manage.

    Homelab runs debian pretty much exclusively, which is stable and reliable.

  • felbane@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•[OC] But they were, all of them, deceived
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    1 month ago

    It runs just fine with Chrome + an extension to spoof a Windows user agent + either Amazon Luna or GeForce Now. Probably any other “play remotely in browser” service as well, but those are the ones I’ve used.

    For what it’s worth I also played with this method when I was running Windows, because I don’t want to install a rootkit just to play a kids game.

    I have tried it with Chromium and Librewolf, it works okay but I would get random input lag sometimes. Fortnite is basically the only reason the Chrome flatpak exists on my system.

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  • felbane@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•I love choice. I hate choosing.
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    2 months ago

    Fair point. Just remember that almost everyone that’s in the Linux Desktop space has formed a subjective opinion based on past experiences, and the popular hate for Ubuntu is there for a reason. Sometimes it’s a silly reason, sometimes it’s a valid reason.

    Anyway, if I’m recommending a distribution for newbies it’s going to be (1) something KDE-based (or possibly LMDE if they’re a Mac convert) and (2) something as far away from Canonical’s shenanigans as possible.

  • felbane@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Am i cooked? SAS or SATAEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Yes, if you’re going to run TrueNAS (or another solution based on ZFS) you should really get rid of the PERC and get an LSI SAS card in IT mode so that the system can see the raw disks.

    When you start your SATA swap, either use the onboard SATA ports (if there are enough) or get a SATA card (more ports, probably slightly better performance than sharing the onboard controller) and start the process I described before.

  • felbane@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Am i cooked? SAS or SATAEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Yes, you’re going to want to get SATA drives that are the same size or bigger than your SAS drives. The mini-sas will break out into 4x sas connectors but you don’t have to swap 4 at a time; disconnect one SAS drive from the SAS breakout cable and then connect one replacement SATA drive to the SATA backplane (either the one on your motherboard or to a SATA card if you don’t have enough mobo ports). Do a zfs scrub. Once it’s finished with no errors, repeat all three steps. Once all drives are off the SAS card and your final scrub is done you can remove the SAS card entirely.

  • felbane@lemmy.worldtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Am i cooked? SAS or SATAEnglish
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    3 months ago

    For this use case there’s not really an advantage using SAS over SATA. I’d suggest buying SATA drives in the future just because you don’t need a SAS card for them, and SATA drives are usually cheaper.

    If you use the H700 for hardware RAID and switch to SATA later, your best bet is probably to copy the data over (or better, use the opportunity to test your backup/restore process).

    If you could run the SAS disks in JBOD mode (which is possible if you sell the H700 and use another SAS card), you could set up your drives in a RAIDZ1 mode and later switch to SATA drives by replacing one drive at a time and doing a scrub between each swap.