I’d been a windows user since the DOS / 3.1 days and converted to Linux maybe 2~ years ago. I’ve found that I’m able to tailor the desktop experience (on desktop / laptop) to exactly what I need. No shitware getting in the way or annoying bundled programs.

My laptop has decent battery life and standby gives me no issues, perfect in my eyes.

I can’t stand windows anymore, and I’m not one to lash out and buy a macbook to just experience another desktop enviornment / user experience.

Admittedly there isnt any professional use just browsing / games with some codium usage.

Run a macvlan and give containers their own local IP. Or don’t expose the port on the host, and connect via reverse proxy.

Yeah have been meaning to pick a few up but it’s not been a top priority. Not really a developer more just a user that dabbles too much with a homelab while trying to be privacy & security conscious.

The cost alone is a bit of a hurdle with money going to life / house currently and another purchase of some silly computer thing will trigger her.

Same thing as any file full of credentials.

I didn’t know about the ability to use more than one passkey per platform. Something I’ll have to investigate further.

My passkeys are stored in keypass, which I share between multiple devices. Phone, home servers, desktop pc and a flashdrive that stays in my car.

Obviously the flash drive needs to be manually updated but the other devices use syncthing to keep everything up to date.

I get there are some people that have concerns over such a configuration but I’m happy bopping away knowing that if my phone dies, I’ve still got access to accounts / can easily be back up and running on a fresh device.

You could always fall back to Hannah Montana Linux.

GUIX, openSUSE or Void might take your fancy if the more mainstream distros aren’t quite hitting the spot.

Not playable in a VM?

Lots of current reviews on Steam say it still works. Unless you mean multiplayer, could always use a tunnel for “lan” gaming.

NVME / M.2 to 6x SATA boards, cheap enough on AliExpress.

I have an x16 PCIE bifurcated to 4 m.2 slots so a theoretical 24 SATA ports. Only one adaptor currently but lots of room to grow.