Personally for me it’s that it’s not as resource heavy as windows whilst offering a similar out of box ‘it just works’. Sure it’s not the best tool for the job in a lot of regards but for example I have two laptops from early 2014. A macbook air and a windows laptop running windows 10. The macbook air runs smoothly when browsing the Web, or studying whereas the windows laptop ends up slowing down a lot and chugging.

I will say I am a fan of the best tool for the job approach though. Doing a lot of office based work and need word editing or spreadsheet editing? Windows. Gaming? Windows. Server work? Linux. Music/video production? Macs

I didn’t take it as one don’t worry Nah not at the moment just got it on my pc screen right now

Oh wow that’s creative!

I did feel a little like Richmond sat in the dark watching these flashing lights!

Just a crappy webcam plugged into one of my servers running simple rstp server to send the stream to vlc. Quality isn’t fantastic as you can see but I enjoy it

poor thing just can’t catch a break really

Ah it’s on three bits of wood screwed into the wall. Can still unscrew it and flip it over though so I may do that.

They have, but you can still find them on the second hand market. I m not looking forward to the day they stop supporting them however

Chocolate and pistachio tart I made a couple days ago

Ah i see Ah my bad… Still looks good

Ah this isn’t the chromecast streaming devices I’m talking about. It’s the older pucks that plug into an aux cable that you can stream music from your phone to

I mean I could… And probably will. The cisco stuff has just been thrown in there and still needs properly organised. I am going to shore that shelf up as well

I’m going to shore it up

Oh no the left picture is the before… Its gone downhill in terms of the mess

Honestly… I might get some pushback for this but Chromecast audio. Being able to get full home audio streaming for a fraction of the cost of a normal system with a few of those and a few old hifis. Worth it for me

Well it’s night here so sleep. But after that I’ve got work then I might study a bit, eat some cake. Nothing much really

Good luck on retraining!

Honestly, throw a couple services running on ubuntu servers on the proxmox machine. It’s not the same as book learning, but it does help a lot with the basics and patchy knowledge I found. Not saying I’m an expert or anything, but I do know a lot more about managing Linux servers now than I did 5 years ago from running 15 of them on Proxmox

This is actually my second foray into IT work. I went to college for software development, failed that, went to work as a printer technician, left that, went into retail and now I am here. Thanks!

Those are the best places to find hardware to be fair. That and ebay/Facebook around the end of the financial year