If I wasn’t using so many other Nextcloud apps besides the file storage I would switch.

The only problem that I see with this is that images and especially videos take up vastly more space than plain text.

And does ActivityPub include client APIs? I haven’t looked at it, but my completely unfounded impression has been that it only handled server to server communication.

Pft, just enable wobbly windows and Linux will be the removed.

For everything else God invented cloud gaming.

But seriously, my kids had the choice between Windows and Linux. They chose Linux because it looks nicer. The older one is even on Discord with friends who live further away. He finds enough current games that have anti cheat for Linux enabled. And in the end they both always get back to Minecraft and Roblox.

Yes. But in terms of gaming Steam seems to have problems if your games are on an NTFS (Windows filesystem) partition. Everything else should work.

Yes.

But every other year Windows seems to “accidentally” mess with Linux bootloaders on other drives/partitions.

The EA app (like most other games) can run with Proton, Valve’s compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux. If you run your games through Steam they should just work. External games or Windows programs can be added to Steam and configured to use Proton.

Roblox works with Sober.

The games you listed all work on Linux.

Roblox sometimes has problems but currently works. You need Sober to launch Roblox.

With Minecraft it depends on the edition. Java Edition works great. Bedrock Edition is rocky. The Windows version doesn’t work at all but the Android version does through the Bedrock Launcher. You’d have to buy it on Google Play. But if he plays Java Edition he’s golden.

Wouldn’t LW have to upgrade their instance? They’ve been stuck on 0.19.3 since forever.

I basically just use it to also post to the fediverse. It works. But I don’t follow anyone so I wouldn’t know anything about that side.

So, what did you do?

Just for drive redundancy it’s awesome. One drive fails you just pull it out, put in a new one and let the array rebuild. I guess the upside of hardware RAID is that some even allow you to swap a disk without powering down. Either way, you have minimal downtime.

I guess a better way would be to have multiple servers. Though with features like checksums in BTRFS I guess a RAID is still better because it can protect against bitrot. And with directly connected systems in a RAID it is generally easier to ensure consistency.

I’d stay away from hardware RAID controllers. If they fail you’re gonna have a hard time. Learned that the hard way. With a software RAID you can do what you proposed. Just put the disk in another system and use it there.

But what if the OOM notification daemon gets killed by the OOM killer?

Port forwarding is what you’re looking for. You almost certainly can configure that in your router. You tell it what the port in the outside should be and to what IP and port in your LAN it should go.

Edit: Just saw your other comments. I’m a bit at a loss.

NPM won’t help you here. As you said, it’s only for http. You will have to set up port forwarding in your router. But as far as I recall Minecraft changes its port with every game. So you could either change that in your router every time you start another game.

But it would be better (for security as well) to set up a VPN. Many routers actually have that built in.

That is, if your goal is to have your Minecraft server reachable through the internet.

For DNS you will need a Dynamic DNS service to let the name always point to your public IP. For this as well many routers have built-in functionality. Maybe even a preferred service.

The keyboard situation on Wayland and especially KDE is abysmal. Through a workaround I managed to get Onboard working. But it often crashes for me when using it with touch.

The keyboard from Steam actually works best for me. But I don’t know how to pull it up without a gamepad. I’ve got a post showing how to get it working outside of the Steam Deck. I’ll try to find it and edit my comment.

All in all I actually think that Gnome is better suited for touch devices. But I just don’t like how it works overall. But maybe your girlfriend likes it.

That is, if the laptop isn’t totally locked down by IT. But knowing school’s IT budget that probably isn’t the case.

Mass

Yeah. I didn’t dare giving 100 % RAM to zram.