Introducing the smndhomelab blog.
Why did I decide to go on with Linux as my main OS? Well, I had multiple reasons to do so. First of all, I was pretty loyal to windows10, and I had no issues with it... until I met Windows 11. Not only the UI was a but harder to get used to, many configuration options were hidden, or if I needed to do anything more advanced I needed to google how I can reach the features which used to be in the controlpanel. Furthermore, some new sympthoms started to appear after updrading to win 11: whenever I left my PC alone for a sec, the fans did spin up, and my PC sounded like an airplane. Whenever I left my PC unattended windows was doing some indexing, some hard to describe stuff (as it was not reasoning why it started hogging my CPU). Also seeing ads everywhere, having random stuff installed on my PC by microsoft on the fly was not really my cup of tea.
Right, so what's next? Back in the past I also had some issues with windows, which I experienced due to that I used to have a Rapoo BT mouse. The issue was: whenever I wanted to pair the mouse: windows has asked me to type in the pairing pin code on my mouse! Crazy, huh?
In my free time I generally like to read about tech stuff, linux forums, whatsoever, and I happened to read about Nobara Linux. A Linux Distro by a RedHat engineer seasoned and modified by himself for: gaming, and for handing it to family members. That could have been the best kind of warranty for having a stable system, as people say: happy wife, happy life. I've read diverse opinions about it, e.g: The distro is amazing, however, the fear, that it is backed by a one-man army, and could become obsolete is rational. This made me to go for the distro he has used as the baseline for his distro (so that in case I want, I can take over his modifications to the system easily): Fedora Workstation. An RHEL based, up-to-date distro, which has modern features, has support, and is a bit more widely used.
Right after selecting the distro, checking the performance in VM (tbh poor compared to reality) I decided to buy an SSD for the system, so that I could dual boot until I sort it out if I should make that jump to Linux. I have read some sources online that nvidia stuff may have compatibility issues, or may experience issues on linux, luckily my build is full AMD, so hopefully no issues
The system I am using:
- MoBo: Asus B450M-PRO GAMING
- CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- RAM: Kingston Fury 32GB Renegade DDR4 3600MHz CL16
- SSD: Kingston FURY Renegade NVMe 1TB Heatsink
- GPU: Sapphire Radeon RX580
The installation went easily, almost next-next-finish. The installation GUI was straightforward, easy to understand, the localization was available, however, I rather opted for english there, as if I experience any issues may be easier to google, than in my native language.