If I see DayZ creator, I generally treat it as the reddest of flags.

I know this is a Linux community, but if you’re stuck on Windows for whatever reason still, there is a perfectly viable option.

Windows 11 Enterprise IoT LTSC.

There’s ISOs and permanent activation at: massgrave.dev

It’s basically what Windows should be, and feels like a fresh W7 install. No bloat, no AI, no bullshit. Legit just Edge and Defender, and all telemetry settings can be disabled.

I use it for my daily driver, then every few weeks or months when I see major updates I’m interested in, I hop onto my CachyOS install. I spend a day or so testing to see if everything feels polished/solid enough for me to ditch Windows.

Heavily second this.

Don’t get too crazy into categorizing your media. Keep it simple with your folders, so Jellyfin can know what the file is then scrape the internet for meta-data.

Media -> Movies -> Example Movie (year) -> Example.movie.file

Media -> Shows -> Example Show (year) -> Season 1 -> Example.show.S01E01.file

Ideally your media downloads will have the name and release year in the folder name already. It knows to ignore or match things like x264, DD.5.1, and release group name.

Ohhh, I think I understand now, they can’t connect to jellyfin because that computer has the VPN on. I thought their question was turning on a VPN to connect to Jellyfin outside their house.

Then yea split tunneling would be a good solution. Set up so only the torrent application uses the VPN. Or that Jellyfin is excluded from the tunnel.

Unfortunately I’m not too up to date on VPNs and which offer that. Perhaps their network equipment could apply the VPN to only the torrent traffic, and then they match the port number used inside the torrent application’s settings?

I think I understand your question. The VPN should let you connect in the exact same method you use when you’re on the same network. Example: connecting to http://192.168.X.X:8096 when local, is exactly how you would with the VPN on.

Nothing will turn my pants brown faster than horror + water, and I know I’m not alone on that one. Hopefully the fishing bits will be relaxing to give my heart a break.

You can try Splitgage 2 for yourself. It’s in an open beta right now. IMO it’s fantastic and feels like peak Halo 2/3 multiplayer + portals.

Sounds like owners of their RTX GPUs are to expect drivers even worse than they have been since December, for the cherry on top.

Unraid is the GOAT for self hosting. An excellent way to learn VMs, Docker, and Linux in general. They have an “app store,” which is community templates for Docker containers, and have all the *arr programs you could want. Drive management is super easy, too.

Fantastic and easy app for undervolting AMD GPUs. Free gains, usually.

What a wild sentence to read, that’s only 2 gens behind! Sorry you had to upgrade, but hopefully you are enjoying what you replaced it with.

It’s designed to scale. Plus it’s nifty to be able to add ~3 tags to a docker container and then it’s instantly online and ready to be used.

Think of it as more modular.

I personally used Traefik, but only because I’m a masochist and it would be useful to know in IT workplace.

Traefik + CrowdSec + CowdSec Traefik Bouncer.

Traefik handles the traffic, and said traffic has to get a green light from CrowdSec + Bouncer before it can go anywhere.

The concept of CrowdSec is honestly super awesome.

Reverse proxy with CrowdSec, which has setups specifically for Jellyfin. Docker for everything.

Ubuntu 6.06 I always come back to Arch now-a-days.

Oh ok, that’s great to know. Sounds more like a cover your own ass, protection for Bethesda then. Thanks!

I read a Steam review that in the EULA it says there’s anticheat and no modding allowed. Not sure how that will play out.

Lol.

Do Bazzite. It will be unbeatable for just working and ease of use.

Stay away from Manjaro for anything.

SteamOS that Valve offers is not the same as what’s on the Steam Deck. It’s extremely dated and is what it used to be. A real distro from Valve has yet to be released.

The best way to install WoW is using Lutris, which also comes with Bazzite. You search for and install Battle.net, then you can install WoW normally. Lutris can also add a WoW shortcut once WoW is installed, too.

You can also just copy and paste the WoW folder from your Windows Program Files folder. It keeps all your settings and addons.

For addons use Wowup-curse. It’s a open source addon manager that is just straight up better than all others.

Currently, WoW needs Proton-GE to work. Using wine-staging, or the dated wine-ge, and Battle.net will have problems starting. It’s something weird with authentication and connecting online. Proton-GE contains a patch specifically for this.

The easiest way to get Proton-GE is using Protonup-Qt if using KDE plasma, or Proton Plus if you’re using Gnome. For Protonup-QT, you select Steam, then install Proton-GE for Steam. Lutris will also be able to use it.

Just general advice, I’d use the latest Proton-GE as the default for all Steam games.

In Lutris set the runner for Battle.net to Proton-GE.

Source: I’ve tried all but Drauger OS, and currently play retail WoW.