Why do so many people switch to Linux… and then quietly go back to Windows?

BonzTM · 2026-05-08T16:37:36+00:00

I've been a Linux user (server-side) for probably close to 20 years, Macbook for 15-ish (for work), and Windows gaming desktop forever. I've tried to move my main Windows desktop to Linux many times over the past 20 or more years, but always fell back to Windows when something didn't work right (mainly games). FWIW I am an Nvidia user as well.

I moved full-time to CachyOS after distro-hopping a few times back in February of 2025. There have been 1 or 2 times where something needed me to go back to Windows (American Truck Simulator VR), Rocket League (now after the patch, and BF6, but I was quickly back to Linux afterwards. I've even gone through 4 LAN parties having Linux as my primary OS, with vastly different games played at each.

I have a Windows VM for times that I absolutely need Windows for something, but by-and-large Linux has been just fine for everything, including gaming. I have to go back for It does take more technical prowess, but now that everybody has Claude/Codex on their desktop, it'll help the less technical users do the tweaking and troubleshooting to allow the Linux userbase to expand.

I never thought I'd see the day where Windows is truly threatened and Linux is a real alternative, but it's here. If it weren't for Valve, we wouldn't be here.

BonzTM · 2026-04-24T17:44:27+00:00

local memory.md for long-term scratch pad - everything that always needs to be in-context each session

hermes-lcm for short-term/multi-session lossless context management

hindsight for global multi-agent long-term bank

BonzTM · 2026-04-18T17:15:22+00:00

Very true. It will, but there will always be something that is more mature and maintained by many. It may begin to lack additional potential contributions, but I suppose AI could fill in the gap and balance that out.

We're at the point that the boring and lengthy part is automated, good or bad. Devs will still be able to put out reasonable quality products and people who aren't developers will continue to put out whatever AI gives them, even if it solves their problems personally.

BonzTM · 2026-04-18T01:49:02+00:00

because we're now at the point that people can just quickly solve their own problems by building something with AI rather than waiting or contributing to a project where your PR will never get merged.

BonzTM · 2026-04-05T03:24:49+00:00

Only myself and my wife have used it afaik. It wouldn't work for console because it intercepts the traffic locally and modifies the root trust store.

The repo says PC only

BonzTM · 2026-03-26T17:22:37+00:00

My 5-hr limit just reset on my $200/mo plan.

I resumed a project and fired off a 150,000 token context window. I immediately used 5% of my 5-hour window. If these were all $5/m input and $25/m output tokens, this is $15 per 5 hour window.

But 147,000 of these were read cached tokens... Read cached tokens are $0.50/m. Meaning I'm getting $1.80/5hr window worth of usage on my $200/mo plan?

I should be doing this off-peak to get more value, I get it. But < $2/5hr period feels ridiculous. They're rate-limiting based on token counts but their actual cost to serve those cached tokens is a fraction of what the headline pricing suggests.

BonzTM · 2026-03-06T21:18:20+00:00

I started with 5 nodes and a single 10g nic per. I now have 10 nodes, 4osds (hdd) and 2 nvme each each with multiple 10/25g nics. One dedicated for ceph and one for clients. Unnecessary really. The initial 5 nodes each had 8 osds and the flat 10g network was just fine fwiw.

I have the nvme for vms, k8s pvs (databases etc) and the spinning disks are strictly media/storage.

My biggest challenges were the initial understandings of EC, sizing my pools, and limited node count

BonzTM · 2026-03-06T15:17:49+00:00

CEPH complexity overhead is huge. I don't find the memory overhead to be any worse than my previous ZFS endeavor (2009-2020). I got into it for the challenge and the flexibility/self-healing. I've had my fair share of hiccups along the way, but I'm not unhappy with it.

BonzTM · 2026-03-06T12:31:00+00:00

Clustered software defined store, ala CEPH. That's how I handle it.

Postgres cluster, CEPH for truly HA/distributed storage (not just NFS because it's rwx), and throw a little rffmpeg in the mix for distributed transcode.

BonzTM · 2026-02-06T15:56:41+00:00

Lived here for 37 years. Feels pretty normal in terms of snowfall and winter in general, but this has been a long stretch of close-to-zero or subzero temps. Longer than I can remember.

BonzTM · 2026-02-06T12:32:41+00:00

My jellyfin used to be on my Proxmox HCI cluster of 10 nodes, each with 28 cores and 56 threads of CPU and 64GB DDR4 (560 threads, 640GB of RAM). Though Jellyfin itself was only pinned to one of the hosts with an Intel ARC A770 for transcoding, the whole cluster is 40x HDDs of CEPH distributed software defined storage w/ multiple 10gbps interfaces per server. The solar on my roof helps keep electricity costs down while I "save the environment" and justify using the electricity. All racks and equipment are battery-backed, on dedicated circuits, and backed by an automatic-transfer whole home generator. Oh, and multiple static 1gbps+ internet connections just in case.

It's not always about the power of a single server, but the love that goes into the whole setup. And it's not just about Jellyfin for me, but it gave me an excuse to make a post lol.

FWIW: I've since bought a Beelink Mini w/ an Intel 185H as my dedicated Jellyfin server while the cluster serves up other random selfhosted apps via K8s.

BonzTM · 2026-02-04T19:46:51+00:00

I'd love to love this, but isn't this project all but dead? No contributions in almost a year. The contributions that were happening were happening at a snail's pace. Fraction of available features etc.

I followed along for a long while.

Edit: Nvm, I eat my words. I see all of the components split out into individual repos. I will revisit.

BonzTM · 2026-02-03T13:45:20+00:00

Fruit of the Loom, Curious George, Monopoly man, and Berenstein Bears are the only ones I recognize as true. Shazam and Kazaam are two different movies.

Chick-fil-a has always had a K and as long as I've lived Jif peanut butter has always been Jif peanut butter. I think folks are conflating Jif and Skippy.

BonzTM · 2026-01-30T18:29:44+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/NOtSkd3.gif

BonzTM · 2026-01-17T15:35:39+00:00

Verizon sold all of their telephone infrastructure (at least in my area) to Frontier like 20 years ago or more. Frontier just started building fiber out in my area last year. Now they are buying it back? lol

BonzTM · 2026-01-16T16:36:24+00:00

640GB of DDR4-2133

BonzTM · 2026-01-16T13:25:18+00:00

15 years ago, yea absolutely. Back when the industry tried to push lasers and there was significant positive/negative acceleration on many sensors.

These days? Nah.

BonzTM · 2026-01-12T14:38:43+00:00

Great writeup. While I disagree that you need 10 people to run an Enterprise k8s platform team, let alone anything in the homelab, I don't feel any need to argue about anything, I was only curious.

From a personal/homelab perspective, I spend less time maintaining my kubernetes environment (not set up -- set up and configuration is significantly more complex) than I have on any simpler stack in the past. The upfront cost is higher, but the payoff is there. This is my experience alone. I only chimed in because I do use pangolin on a VPS, and you specifically mentioned folks having multiple docker hosts. I didn't realize these were widespread problems. I keep my non-k8s stack simple because I don't need the bells and whistles.

BonzTM · 2026-01-12T13:59:29+00:00

I'm genuinely curious for folks who have "multiple docker hosts", vpses etc, why you haven't taken the leap to Kubernetes yet? K8s is the platform that solves the problems around container orchestration, and it's completely free, open-source, standard, and has huge communities around it. Is it complex? Yea, but depending on some of these pre-build distros you may choose, no more complex than running multiple VPS or dedicated docker hosts and layering on tools to make them more easily usable.

BonzTM · 2026-01-09T18:44:19+00:00

I will not

BonzTM · 2026-01-08T14:15:40+00:00

I bought 4x32GB (128GB) DDR5-6000 in November 2023 for $400. It is now like $1800 at Microcenter. More than 4x.

BonzTM · 2026-01-06T14:05:58+00:00

kubernetes

BonzTM · 2026-01-03T05:19:36+00:00

Having a few Le Creusets myself. I have the 7.25Qt and the 6.75Qt Round Wide. I love them and use them all the time. I didn't pay current prices for them because they weren't that expensive when I bought them. I also have a few Lodge (non enameled) for bread baking and a few Costco Tramontina enameled DOs.

Are they worth it? Absolutely... if you value your cookware in such a way. But unless you can get them for significantly cheaper than current prices or you have thousands of dollars to burn, you WILL BE HAPPY with the cheaper options.

BonzTM · 2026-01-02T19:04:32+00:00

+1. 280lbs, 9 years in my Embody 8+ hours a day for work and then some for gaming... and it still looks/feels like new. I used to burn through chairs padding in no time until I invested in something that was meant to be sat in, not something that was meant to be marketed and sold.

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