General Computer Thread

[Candlicious Ghost]

I no longer rely on an internal optical drive, I'm using two external ones via front USB 3 port. One drive for local content and one for USA content, but that one can also read and burn bluray disks.

I have two internal SSD drives one is my main drive on a socket on the motherboard the secondary is just for files and games, things I wouldn't really care about that much. The secondary used to be a mechanical drive, and it's still around but tucked into an enclosure. Haven't touched it in a couple of years.

 

[Marc]

its easier for me to just use an older desktop as a hypervisor and run stuff I need to have running in its own OS as a VM, these days. I still have a lot of old hardware, but it's going to the dumpster before long. I don't really do any gaming more substantial than 90's and early 00's games on a pc, so my hardware needs aren't really that great any longer.

virtualisation is definitely a winner

I tend to be a bit oooh squirrel with so I have lots of stuff running but don't always get around to finish setting it up (or haven't decided on soft e.g Plex vs Jellyfin, Calibre vs Booklore).

At present I've got 44 Linux containers and 14 vms running, 1 of those VMs had a pile of docker containers running. My daily driver desktop is a TuxedoOS VM (Ubuntu 24.04 based but more upto date with the KDE version.) and my internet gateway is virtualised as well which can also be curse

On a Ryzen 9 7900 with 128GB ram, CPU siting at 49% and ram used is 117GB