What would you do with hardware like this?
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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!
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Don't worry about it, you're not in a rush to do anything. How about getting a cup of tea for starters?
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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!
Jellyfin server? it'll do hardware transcode handily!
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What is the benefit of running it in Proxmox rather than just containers on bare metal?
Convenience, time saved.
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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!
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What is the benefit of running it in Proxmox rather than just containers on bare metal?
Depends what you want to do. If you want only docker containers, it's the wrong tool. If you want to run a mixture of VMs and LXC containers, it's literally a management interface made for it. So it's pretty good at it.
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Can't do much with these specs. You could make it headless and lose the desktop environment to make it much more useful.
Can't do much with an i7, 60Gb RAM, and a discreet GPU?
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Can't do much with an i7, 60Gb RAM, and a discreet GPU?
XD I mean, there are also discreet GPUs from the 90's, yet pretty much all integrated GPUs are far more performant than that.
Your discreet GPU is over 12 years old and even back then it was an entry level card. So, actually, it is very weak and, for many use cases, weaker than many current integrated ones. Not to mention possible lack of current driver support, etc...
You could also look up the other parts, I won't do that for you. But the same counts for the "i7". If the i7 is nearly as old, it's weaker than some i3s from today and definitely weaker than lots of i5s, nowadays.
Again....... Same goes for the RAM, etc... If your RAM is really slow, then the size of the RAM will only be useful for certain use cases.
Again and again.... You have to research for every part, to really know, what they are capable of. Just saying "i7" and "discreet" does not make the PC any better, whatsoever.
In short: you can use the computer for a lot of stuff, but only very limited. If you want to do something very specific, really well, then you need to find the right niché, where it might work well. Otherwise, as I initially foreshadowed, there is actually not much you can do with those specifications. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!
This looks very similar to my MacBookPro 2013 but running on endeavourOS
Just don’t try to install the patched proprietary nvidia drivers on recent kernel and relay on nouveau. Then all works pretty good so far
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What is the benefit of running it in Proxmox rather than just containers on bare metal?
You can migrate without downtime from one proxmox host to the other
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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!
Step 1. Replace plasma for something lighter like xfce or wayfire with all the fancier effects disabled
Step 2. GZDoom mods.
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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!
Truenas Scale NAS server, just add the storage.
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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!
Jellyfin server!!
You'll eventually want more storage so LVM is the way to go for making your "drive" easily extendable.
I use my (very similar, just AMD and with a dGPU) for my Jellyfin server and to selfhost some AI models for experimentation, and I'm working on rolling out matrix synapse because selfhosting
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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!
I had a 6700k until December just gone. For Linux it can do everything and anything. It’s totally usable! I only gave mine up because of CS2.
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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!
Install Ganeti, or K3s, and do a lot of things!
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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!
::: spoiler i'd run two web browsers
at the same time
::: spoiler seriously though:
i'd setup a CI runner
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Jellyfin server!!
You'll eventually want more storage so LVM is the way to go for making your "drive" easily extendable.
I use my (very similar, just AMD and with a dGPU) for my Jellyfin server and to selfhost some AI models for experimentation, and I'm working on rolling out matrix synapse because selfhosting
Thought the same, although on a second thought Jellyfin would maybe use 1% of the resources of that CPU. But still, I started with Jellyfin and Audiobookshelf on my home server (it has approx. half the computing power of the XPS) and now it has expanded to Immich, LLMs, Nextcloud, and has basically replaced my whole cloud personality. It has a lot of disk space also, so actually - if you don't need the laptop - set it up as a home server and start with one project on it. I promise it'll grow fast, haha.
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I had a 6700k until December just gone. For Linux it can do everything and anything. It’s totally usable! I only gave mine up because of CS2.
It even has integrated graphics - so throw out that GPU, I have my server with a 6700k pull less than 20W at idle!
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It even has integrated graphics - so throw out that GPU, I have my server with a 6700k pull less than 20W at idle!
I have 7700 went with fanless case and ssds, 25w underload, 15w idle. 750w PSU doesn't use its fan until you hit 30% load.
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I got this PC from my dad when he upgraded in like December ish. I've been running Kubuntu on it and just using it like a sort of general purpose desktop for me and my wife, but I've got a hankering for some tinkering and feel like it has more potential, so I'd love some project ideas!
Head on over to the self-hosting community
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Don't worry about it, you're not in a rush to do anything. How about getting a cup of tea for starters?
