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Unofficial app reminds not to give up on your non-Windows 11-ready PC, also suggests Linux - Neowin (www.neowin.net)
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[โ€“] JDubbleu@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I recently got a $100 PC that's now an Ubuntu server running your typical qBittorrent/Xarr/Plex/VPN stack, a local web server (for accessing said services), and nginxproxymanager all across docker containers. It's not powerful by modern standards (i5-7600), but for what I use it for it's way overkill. It's currently sitting at 5% memory utilization of the 8GB of RAM it has despite running all that with many active torrents.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

Nice! I still have my PC from 2009-ish (Phenom II X4) running my NAS and serving DLNA (for my smart TV), and I'm planning to downsize a bit to save on power (looking at ARM boards like RockPro64).

Older machines make for great servers.