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Borg, My Post-Pandemic Homelab Server (2023)

Resistance is, indeed, futile.

Thanks to various deals and some choice compromises this was roughly EUR 1300, which would be half to a quarter of a top-tier, bleeding edge “gaming PC” (depending on it using previous or current generation components) and about on par with a Mac Mini with an entry-level M2 Pro chip. I did get Steam Link to work in an LXC container via the iGPU, but rendering and streaming anything more demanding than Celeste is right out, and when trying to use PRIME to force it to use the NVIDIA card I also came across a number of bugs regarding Big Picture Mode that make me think it will be a while until I can take full advantage of Proton and do without Windows on this machine altogether. As a side note, Celeste actually plays well via accelerated RDP.Controller input under Linux was also a bit strange (likely because LXC adds to the complexity here–I remember Steam requiring some udev entries at some point in the past), so for the moment I think I can live with dual boot.

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