The IoT edition of Windows 11 runs in 4GB ram and performs ok. I don’t recommend more ram, I recommend either Linux or LTSC IoT.

Some things have survived, like CUPS…but yeah, their track record isn’t great.

You mean like the one that Plex provides with Plex pass?
I haven’t been able to find a free proxy provider that is ok with streaming video. Closest I’ve found is CloudFlare, and video streaming isn’t permitted on their free tier.
Plex pass is a lot cheaper for me than paying for CloudFlare’s non-free tiers, especially since I got myself a lifetime pass 3 years ago.

Plex’s remote play works for me when I’m away from home - which is on starlink. Jellyfish does not, because starlink uses cgnat. 🤷

I’m not using either of those. I’m using the LMDE default, Cinnamon.

I’ve been using LMDE for the past couple years and I do all my non-switch gaming on it.

I’m more concerned about ‘AI’ telling people incorrect information - and that information being further indexed and presented as fact elsewhere.

It’s a compounding problem

I just asked 2 IT guys “hey, do you know what punycode is?” And the answer I received was “I’ve heard of it but don’t know what it is.”
Thank you for informing me, but I’m far from alone in not recognizing it or having knowledge of what punycode is.

Looks like a totally legit domain. Much trusting.

I run audiobookshelf through it and it works flawlessly.

I think he’s not concerned about much besides himself.

Sure, but one is rude to people that deliver bad work to him, the other is rude to people that don’t accept his bad work from him.

Funny how we’ve forgotten already the rage and backlash from users when it was revealed you could never completely disable telemetry in windows 10.
Now the general attitude is ‘well, it’s not as bad as 11.’
For the better part of a decade I used windows only for gaming, and now I’ve dropped it for that too.
I’m not sure why some people still refuse to consider using an alternative to windows these days.

Vulnerable? Do you have examples? I’m not aware of any.

Or maybe they’re developers that are tired of the wheel being reimplemented?
Eg.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2025/06/wayland-screenshots/

One of the things that keeps me on x11 is xscreensaver. I disable the desktop environments blanking and install xscreensaver each time I load a system for myself.

I’m on their free tier. If you don’t have a domain you need to get one, but CloudFlare does offer domain registration basically at-cost.
Because I’m on free, I can’t break down my analytics like a paid account can. i can say though that for the past 30 days my account has generated 886k requests and 47.56GB of bandwidth. I can’t tell you how much of that is nextcloud and how much is other stuff, like audiobookshelf, but hopefully this helps answer you.

Exactly why I run LMDE and not LM.

100% this. I have one running in a lxc, and I expose it to the world through a CloudFlare tunnel so I needn’t worry about dyndns or people probing my public IP.

I’ll have to give it a spin. My biggest concern is for one of my VMs that occasionally moves, it has ‘disk’ for both an efi and a tpm.
In any case, I’ve read enough in this thread that I’m going to see for myself. :)
Thanks for the feedback!