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  • stuner@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldFreedom
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    3 months ago

    True, Linux applications (e.g. apt, dnf, pip, but also rm, sudo, and many more) would be more precise.

    For Arch, it’s probably not so easy to define “essential” packages, as it, for example, supports many different bootloaders. It is of course also a question of distro philosophy and target audience. Personally, I’ve noticed that “rm -r” as root prompts for every file on RHEL but does not on Arch…



  • I’d say Mint is fine for gaming, as long as your hardware is supported. I’m using it with an Nvidia GPU on X11 and I can play all the games I want to play (Steam is Steam after all). My main gripe is that multi-monitor VRR doesn’t work on X11, but it hasn’t pushed me to another distro just yet…

    For people/beginners that mostly want to game on a computer, I’d say that actually something “immutable” like Bazzite might be one of the best options.











  • Perhaps my recent NAS/home server build can serve as a bit of an inspiration for you:

    • AMD Ryzen 8500G (8 cores, much more powerful than your two CPUs, with iGPU)
    • Standard B650 mainboard, 32 GB RAM
    • 2 x used 10 TB HDDs in a ZFS pool (mainboard has 4x SATA ports)
    • Debian Bookworm with Docker containers for applications (containers should be more efficient than VMs).
    • Average power consumption of 19W. Usually cooled passively.

    I don’t think it’s more efficient to separate processing and storage so I’d only go for that if you want to play around with a cluster. I would also avoid SD cards as a root FS, as they tend to die early and catastrophically.






  • I don’t have a Mac Mini, but for always-on systems, the idle power consumption can become quite significant.

    • Gaming PCs can consume up to 100W (876 kWh / year).
    • My AMD B650 NAS consumes about 17W in idle (150 kWh / year).
    • A NUC / Mac Mini can idle as low as 5W (44 kWh / year).

    If you pay 0.30$/kWh, running your old 100W gaming PC all the time would cost you 263$ per year. My NAS is 45$ per year…

    It also depends on what you need/want from the machine. The Mac Mini doesn’t have any HDDs and can’t run a regular Linux distro, for example.