Microsoft forced win11 on customers... we had 100+ pc's upgrade on their own... gave f all about group policies.
Happy to not be a part of endpoint management team and to not care if my work pc is on wi10, win11 or anything else... I need a browser, an ide and a terminal to do my work
Got a proxmox node with a couple of vm's, mostly for hosting docker.
I'm considering switching proxmox for kubevirt, but I'd have to deploy all my container as either k8s deployments or create new vm for docker...
Been using prometheus at work lately and I want to create a push setup with thanos backend, but for now it's just an idea
Buy local goods, even is it cost more... most people will go for cheapest price, even if you're handing your money to warlords and human trafficking.. same argument every time "There will always be ".
It
I'm running my Proxmox VE on a small asus mini pc with embedded cpu. It can't even match a 5 year old i3 and I'm having no issues.
Running mainly containers and small projects
I tend to keep my laptops on mint or ubuntu. PC's you use as a daily driver, should be easy to manage. When you boot, they just work.
Build a homelab, if you want to break stuff.
A homelab can be as small, as a vm in virtualbox. No need for extra hardware when starting off...