Reply To: [unofficial weekender] Art!

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SSD’s have a limited lifespan. Even branded official ones. I honestly don’t know if that is part of the reason why my system is failing. However I did want a new pc anyway as my current one is +/- 10 years old. The GPU is the only ‘new’ thing and that’s a few years old too.

I do have one Linux machine in my house … and that’s the server running Proxmox + Home-assistant + Pi-Hole.
Doing upgrades on that thing is suspiciously easy at times.

The challenges for desktop start when companies only ever release Windows-apps to do various things with their hardware.
My Reolink security cameras work perfectly fine in HA, but if I need to do firmware upgrades I have to use their Windows app.
Although I did recently notice that a recent firmware upgrade could be done from HA. There’s still a few things their app does that HA doesn’t do (yet).

My Govee lights are in a similar situation, but unlike Reolink they are not “works with Home Assistant”-certified (and they won’t be as they need external servers. ).

Anyways … I’d be tempted to run a dual boot Linux/Windows system for a while just to see where we’re at, but modern hardware tends to be Linux-hostile and Windows hates not being primary OS so I’m not sure if I can do it at all. I might try it when I’ve got time to experiment, but first I need to be sure I’ve got a pc I can trust.

oh … and silly me ‘forgot’ to order thermal paste. Apparently it isn’t something that is included in either cooler or cpu, so I may have to do buy some today once my parts arrive.