And lying isn’t the answer either.

I bet those pants weren’t cheap.

drivers are notoriously troublesome on Linux

I dunno man, Debian makes it pretty easy.

1. Prerequisites

x64 Kernel headers:

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64

2. Debian 12 Installation

Disable secure boot & add ‘Contrib’ repository to sources list:

sudo deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

Install Nvidia driver

sudo apt install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree

Restart system.

Bonus points for optimal performance follow CUDA doc & OptiX doc for Ray-Tracing & utilization of Nvidia cuda cores.

I use Debian btw

Absolutely nothing wrong with Debian, so long as you’re comfortable configuring most things through the shell you’ll be fine.

windows is more popular for having a UI

Linux had a UI way before windows ever did, it’s called the Shell.

You can use Bash if you want, but it’s not a necessity

I would argue and say at minimum you should be comfortable with Bash and the file system , otherwise if you spend a year running Linux and encounter some obscure error you’ll be totally clueless troubleshooting wise and might end up breaking something else.

Why not just host the stack at home and VPN in? Jellyfin is pretty snappy I don’t think you’ll struggle much network wise.

Sounds like self inflicted pain.

It most certainly is unfortunately. gLib2.0 is apart of the Debian main repository but for some damn reason I couldn’t pull it with apt.

Resulted in building it with meson but had so much trouble.

Yeah this post is bull shit!

I just spent the last 2-3 hours building SSHFS from source for Proxmox & Debian, it really sucked!

Ps: Fuck gLib2.0

I picked myself up a Asus NUC 13th gen I7, chose Proxmox VE as the OS (headless Debian 12 for the main VM) and have about 35 services running via Docker Compose essentially 24/7.

Is it the most elegant setup? No, but everything runs beautifully.

Just make sure your Linux kernel supports the Intel chipset as they are relatively new.

This was maybe 2-3ish years ago;

I started with a raspberry pi 4 bundle from Amazon, played around with the Linux filesystem, bash shell, APT package manager and just kept reinstalling the headless Debian 12 OS if I believed to have bricked it beyond repair.

Eventually learned about the Docker Engine & Docker Compose and that essentially gave access to a plethora of software I would’ve have never have used before.

The raspberry pi 4 started to show sluggishness as I started piling more and more services on it so, Instead of buying traditional server grade hardware I liked the small form factor of the Pi so I opted for a 13th gen Asus Nuc with an 12 core i7.

Everything runs beautifully now and I even run Debian 12 on my desktop as well!