I have officially kicked Microsoft out of my world. I’ve hopped between Linux distributions for some time now, even running Arch on my laptop for a while (and had super strange network issues… so strange that I couldn’t see or connect to any Wi-Fi when I was at my parents’ house. At home, it just worked. Same router brand. Until today, I had no clue what happened there).
As said, I used Arch, Ubuntu, some weird otaku thingy more as a gag, and at least I landed on CachyOS with KDE Plasma. I know, not the most exotic one, but it does just run so good. That was a bigger switch than I thought. The first weeks did collide with muscle memory like crazy. But I’m learning. I might have even cheated a little, but in my network, I have a Windows machine (Ryzen 4500/32GB RAM/Radeon 6400) that I can connect to with Sunshine (I know, the worst GPU with no hardware encoder—improvements for another time, and it works for now).
That runs surprisingly well. I use that mostly for some games that refuse to run on Linux (at this point, Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is one of the games I just can’t get to run on my main system) or my ChiTuBox 3D Slicer for the Resin Printer. Oh, I’ve acquired a second 3D printer, the ELEGOO SATURN 4 ULTRA 16K. I use Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS on multiple systems at home. One fairly powerful (Dual Xeon 2680 v4/128GB RAM/Dual RTX 3060 12GB) machine that houses my own agent, Lina. One to host her TTS Server (Core i5 7500T/16GB RAM/RTX 2060) and then two Pi’s for the other stuff you need on a daily basis (PiHole, Trillium, Network Storage).
I can connect over Cloudflare into the network, but it’s very limited. Less exposure should be the way, in my opinion.
'Kasane Teto' to the linux Ricers
This was my first vRoid Studio try for 'Lina' - Not that i plan to end it here, but it is a start
A lot of rumbling. I wanted to say, leave Windows. It’s really not that hard. As a Windows user since Windows 95, the only thing you have to relearn is the file structure. That did take me the longest by far. Everything else is whatever. Some things work better on Windows, some better on Linux. But Linux feels so much more fluid. It snaps so good. And I’m not on cutting-edge hardware. To be honest, the best system on my network is a little KI Goth I built in my free time.
I also vibed a little tool into existence that lets me start my machines from my desktop. Not that I really needed it, but when I started the Windows machine with a line in the console, I thought that could be a better flow. (Even though VenPlay i can just start over Sunshine)
Trillium is underrated.
I had installed LibreOffice and OpenOffice, and I’ve kicked them since I started using Trillium. It fulfills all my office and note-taking needs. It’s more of a database but has everything I need. Check the link. it runs dream-like in a Docker on a Raspberry Pi 4 2GB.
