Xtra is usually the one I see recommended

I’ve played almost every game between gen 3 and gen 7, but that’s about where I started falling out of love with it. Idk something about the new games just doesn’t jive with me. Rom hacks are pretty cool, although I felt they were stagnant for a while. Been a while since i checked though so time to see if people have cooked up anything good in the last year or two

Ten feels recent, but yeah I remember that being pretty common in the mid to late 00’s

1. I host at home so unfortunately can’t give you any advice on a vps

2. If you’re torrenting, yes I would recommend a VPN. If you’re setting up docker containers, gluetun is what you want to use. It’s a client you can use to connect to most major VPN providers

3. You don’t need to open your server to the internet for you or your partner to remotely access it. You can use tailscale (or manually setup wireguard) to remotely access it without exposing anything. Alternatively, if you still want to open it, you can use fail2ban. I don’t know enough about networking to tell you exactly how secure it makes you, but assuming you’re a normal guy who isn’t pissing off any major corporations/states/etc it’s probably fine

4. I haven’t clicked on any of the links you provided, but I assume they mention the *arr stack. Some other goodies that may not have been mentioned though are jellyseerr, which has a nice frontend to search and request movies and TV, and homarr, which is a dashboard you can setup to sync with your other hosted apps. I have a couple extra I could tell you if you want, but I think these are the most important for a basic “official feeling” setup

Honestly thank you. Been using homarr for a while and had no idea that had a completely new version

According to this comment higher up, 19 games were tested on an RX 6800 and every game was faster on Linux except for the Witcher 3 and cs2

If anyone uses jellyfin you can also use jellyseerr, it’s just a fork of overseerr designed to work with jellyfin

This sub has a megathread that has a list of trusted sites for general use and specific categories. It also has sites for direct download if you prefer it

It depends on what kind of software you usually use. You should look up the programs you use regularly/can’t live without to see if they have Linux versions or if they have decent replacements. If everything there checks out, find an LTS distro. Debian/Ubuntu and derivatives (PopOS or Mint) or fedora and derivatives (I don’t know any fedora derivatives) would be good.

I started using PopOS last year for a gaming machine and all the tinkering I did, I did because I’m a nerd and I wanted to. If I wanted an easy experience without even looking at a command line I think I could’ve.

One more thing. Most (maybe all?) Linux distros can be booted and viewed in a live environment from a USB without having to erase your whole drive (just make sure you don’t go through the setup and actually erase your drive (unless you want to))

You’ve basically outlined everything people hate about modern assassin’s creed. It’s generally accepted that the last good ac was origins which came out in 2017, and while I do enjoy it, it was the start of ac becoming the generic open-world cookie-cutter rpg that it is today.

As cool as the upcoming game sounds, being set in Japan which people have been wanting for a very long time, and as much as I want to enjoy every ac game, the past few releases have just been chipping away my hope at getting something good

Oh man I wish I’d been old enough to appreciate old assassin’s creed multiplayer before it died. I remember seeing my brother play it but I was like 10 at the time and more interested in cod lmao

I set mine up with duckdns and caddy. In duckdns set the ip address to your machines local address. If memory serves, there’s a section in the vaultwarden wiki about using caddy with duckdns

My mobo (asrock) does this as well, I just assumed it was the default for all of them

Uhh someone can correct me if I’m wrong but I don’t think the motherboard cares what os you use nor does it much (if any) impact on gaming performance. In fact, the only “Linux compatible” piece of hardware I would suggest is an amd GPU, although even that isn’t really necessary anymore as several distros (PopOS, Nobara, and bazzite off the top of my head, probably more) have isos that come bundled with Nvidia drivers

Call of duty black ops 3. Most of that time was spent in custom zombies maps, but the third party client that cleans up the cheater problem that plagues every old cod let me enjoy some occasional multiplayer, which despite being apart of the infamous jetpack era, I actually quite enjoy

I did reinstall my os (and hop over to arch while I was at it) because I had a bug with Forza that made it crash on login.

It didn’t help (I think it was a bug with the save file) but at least I can say I installed arch the hard way

I would also recommend it, and I even tried it when i started, but i just couldn’t get it to work. Probably permission issues

For a while I split tunneled tailscale through an openvpn .conf file, but recently switched to using qbittorrent in docker with gluetun. Qbittorrent is realistically the only service that needs to be behind a vpn so it works out well

I’m sure any server oriented Linux distro will do fine. I use Debian.

I will note, I don’t know if you’re planning on having remote access (e.g. through tailscale or reverse proxy), but if you are, I found it quite a challenge to get proton to play nice with them

I’m well aware. I enjoy the game all the same. Besides, I think people overstate how bad rammers are. Yeah it happens sometimes, but most people want the same thing you do: a clean race