u/loaferwaffle

It's been about 2 to 3 months since I left Windows. I thought I would miss it because of the games i play and the apps I use, but I realized most of the games and apps I use are literally compatible or there's an alternative. With a little tinkering (and that means changing the fstab to include an nfs share), I have had almost zero complaints. Most issues were due to my misconfigurations and once fixed, they were not a problem anymore.

Pros: Linux does anything you tell it to do.
Cons: Linux does anything you tell it to do.

Been building my home lab for a few months now and they've been hanging out in my TV stand shelves. I think it came out pretty good. Just need to do some proper cable management.

Device	Role	Specs
Old Acer Predator Laptop	Proxmox hypervisor failover node	4 Core CPU · 8 GB RAM · 512 GB SSD
GMKtec K15 AI Mini PC	Proxmox hypervisor master node	Core Ultra 5 125U · 48GB RAM · 1TB SSD · Dual 2.5GbE
Raspberry Pi 5 ×2	Docker Swarm manager nodes	4 core CPU · 16GB RAM · 128 GB SD card · GeeekPi P33 PoE+ NVMe Hat
UGREEN NASync DH4300 Plus	NAS	4 Bays · 48 TB HDD (soon) · 2.5 GbE
TP-Link ER707-M2	Router / firewall / VPN	Dual 2.5G WAN · SPI firewall · Omada SDN
SG2210XMP-M2	Core Switching	8× 2.5G PoE+ · 2× 10G SFP+
TP-Link EAP770	Wireless Access Point	WiFi 7 · BE11000 · 2.5G uplink

Got a Proxmox cluster going with the Mini PC and the laptop. Laptop is just for failover. The Pis are part of a 3-node Docker swarm with an Ubuntu VM. I've really been liking the Omada lineup from TP-Link. Bit of a learning curve, but once I got set up, it's been really easy setting up my network.

Here's what I got running:

• Omada Controller VM
• 2 x RHEL IDM servers
• 2 x Pi-holes w/ Unbound and Gravity Sync
• ARR Stack
• OpenVAS CE Vulnerability Scanner
• STIG Manager
• Grafana
• RHEL 7 - 10 test VMs
• Ubuntu Docker Node w/ iGPU passthrough for transcoding

My 4 x 16 TB drives just came in, so I'll be setting that stuff up on the NAS soon. Gotta migrate my data and recreate the RAID setup. I've been using random hard drives that have been sitting around at home.

Next plan is an UPS for the homelab and NVMe SSDs for the Pi's. I'll maybe get another Mini PC for a proper Proxmox cluster.