So, with Windows being slowly moved towards the fully subscription based model, I’ve happily been fully Linux at home for 15 years now. The only app I use Windows at home for (in a VM – see below) is Office, and more specifically, Excel.

Up until recently I was an OpenSUSE user, but have just switched over to Fedora – everything was backed up over the past week, and the actual change was done in maybe half an hour Saturday morning with no loss of settings whatsoever. I prefer the KDE Plasma GUI, but have always got a terminal window open too.

I use Virtualbox to run a few VMs to play with: macOS High Sierra, Windows 10 IoT LTSC (same as Windows 10, just far less bloatware), Windows 11, Kali Linux.

I run a Plex Media Server on my home network and have 50TB of usable storage (Synology NAS) for my media – using PlexAmp in my car to listen to my music, and utilising the “arr suite” to ensure everything is up to date and of the quality I require. Throughout the house I have NVIDIA Shields as my playback devices for each TV (all running 3rd party launchers to get away from the godawful Google ads that litter the default launcher.

Home-based media server was one of my projects from way back and it’s finally something I’m happy with 🙂