I’m just mad at Windows and want something better
I recently started with homelabbing when I got a refurbished server. Then when I started actually WATCHING traffic over my network after setting up DNS filters, I realized my windows computers are using a ton of requests for just random bullshit. Now they’re shoving AI into everything and trying to force me into the cloud by trying to disable my local windows account. I’m just tired of all the “it’s inconvenient to figure out how to control your technology so we’ll default to what we want every update” so I want out. Also, VSCode slamming AI into it has me angry as well.
I just want a Linux distro it’s easy to game on (right now I like FFXIV and Factorio) and can be easily used for software development. I’m alright familiar with Debian (I setup a Proxmox setup for my refurb server) and I actively use Redhat for my job. I built my current PC a few years ago with an AMD 7800 3DX cpu and 7800 XT graphics card so hopefully that won’t cause any issues (doubt it)