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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • For a heavy duty gaming PC that you want to last many years without having to touch hardware again, I’d recommend 32GB RAM and most definitely go nvme SSD drives (not SATA). No spinning rust drives unless you have a specific use case for media or archive storage.

    As far as the cpu and video card, unless you plan to heavily get into ray tracing in games or play with (gag) “AI”, AMD will be great for both.

    I’d recommend Mint or PopOS for a starter distribution. I do not recommend Bazzite to newbies because an immutable distro adds another level of learning concepts you don’t need at the beginning.







  • I’ve been hosting my own email servers for 20 years without issue. But email systems were a huge part of my IT career so it was easy.

    It works great if you have static IPs and know what you’re doing in terms of following best practices. If you’re missing those two things you’re going to have a bad time.

    If you have the statics and want to learn, I’d recommend purchasing a test domain and getting the kinks worked out before you move a domain you care about to your own system.