A Windows 10 update brought my decent PC to a halt and at that very moment I had enough.

Since you are paying, it seems to be worth it. I read a lot of mixed opinions online. What do you find there that you can’t on torrent sites? Or is it just ease of use?

10-15W under load, idle probably around 5W, Jetson Nano with a few USB-to-SATA HDDs.

KDE keeps winning on all fronts

I use cat << EOF

Yeah, storage prices also suck :-(

I have misread the meaning of only in your sentence. Only for gaming and nothing else, almost 0%.

How many people realistically only uses their desktop PC for gaming […].

The majority? Not everyone can or wants to afford 10 gaming gadgets just to play the same games on different devices.

what’s the benefit of using a “gaming” distro

There are some benefits. (I haven’t and don’t plan on watching the video, so I don’t know which they used.) CachyOS has some optimized kernels that help squeeze out more performance out of latency sensitive games. It is not earth-shattering, but there are measurable differences. One personal example was CS2. It ran fine on Fedora 42, but on Cachy there was noticeable less stutter when there was a lot of action.

I can second CachyOS. The last time it caused me headaches was kinda my own fault. VirtualBox needed some dependencies which I didn’t read thru, then it installed an older kernel version for some god damn reason and I lost my ethernet driver. Took me quite some time to figure it out, but as I said, not Cachy’s fault!

.ml is hard at it

Tnx, I’ll give this one a shot.

I understand fully. When I stumbled upon it, I thought it was just their RPi clone with more powerful hardware (it’s even GPIO compatible). At that point I didn’t have much time to reaseach to what extent it was supported and just assumed at least some general functionallity since it came with Ubuntu and not some random embeded OS. I should have known better, but I do now.
What drew me to it was not the AI stuff, but rather the premise of a decent CPU and GPU package in a small form factor, ideal as an HTPC. And that it was just 7€. You can’t buy anything for that much money, even less a whole ass PC.

They have one official image for the Nano. All others aren’t supported and cause issues unless you hold some packages (which is the method I tried to get 20.04 working). HW acceleration still won’t work.

I am looking for something beyond the official docs that would help.

CoolerMaster MH720 because I wanted one with a mic. I am very happy with them almost 3 years now.

Edit: typo

Oh, ok. That makes some sence. I had a similar issue with Fedora 41 as they didn’t update to a newer version of FFMPEG that fixed some conflicts/issues. I had to download a different video player that shipped with it’s own ffmpeg packaged. Can’t remember the name, but try seeing what’s in the software store. You might be affected by a similar problem.

That is even stranger. My RX6600 has zero issues with 4k 10bit content. Do you watch via browser or ripped dvds?

You could try one of the “gaming” focused distros like Cachy or Bazzite. They do their own tweaks to squeeze more performance out of you hardware. Sadly, many game won’t reach the performance level of Windows, but you can get pretty close, like 85-90% close (depends highly on the game in question, no guarantees).

I second OnlyOffice. I am not a power user of Word, but neither a novice. Things haven’t broken yet and I’ve been editing .docx files for over a year now.

The best way would be to use Qbittorrents web interface. You can drag and drop files and have them start downloading imediately. If you need to do it over the terminal, qbit has an option to watch certain folders for new torrent files. You could then use Samba to transfer files over your local network.

Edit: I skipped over files for printing. Can’t help with that, but my guess would be Samba as well.

Grrman C might be fake, but German Excel isn’t.