Take a backup and go for it.

Personally, I ditched OMV for standard Arch Linux and just added the packages I wanted…

This

x10

Mint is the best apparently

https://distrowatch.com/

I use Arch btw

This was great… great find and genius idea.

I think you’ve read me wrong there.

First up, I presume you searched for other posts like this one? If not, a pinned post might’ve made that easier for you to get started (ie Mint)

Second, the pinned post doesn’t become a final answer, it’s a starting point to add to the discussion, (ie you tried Mint, but didn’t like X, Y & Z)

From my pov there are a lot of posts asking this same question and this was simply a reflection on how we could improve the community… and your experience.

~1600 hours uptime… no rebooting after patching?

You… you do patch your web server… don’t you…?

But, a good blog… must give my BIOSes a good looking at and see if I can change some of mine

LoL… looks like a EULA in Uppercase

Much prefer that you do your stuff the way you want, and lowercase makes it feel like it’s hand written

Man, we need to be able to pin some posts and answer these quesrions once.

I’m not saying there’s a single answer (I use Arch btw), but if we could just group all these Q&As in 1 post…

Nice

Or… just return the laptop?

Then purchase basically anything else

I’m surprised though, I thought Asus wouldn’t be a company to do something like that.

MythTV for the main storage, stored in folders by my genre.

All metadata updated via Picard.

Syncthing to replicate to a Raspberry Pi (2 or 3, I don’t recall which) running Volumio with a DAC board to connect speakers to.

The Pi is in the bedroom, so I only replicate the genres that I want, which cuts down on storage needed on the Pi, and means I don’t need MythTv / NAS / etc. powered over night.

I was going to query why fork instead of just maintaining, but after reading theose comments I see the problem.

So, ok, I need to start shifting packages…

Thanks for the CoMaps pointer, didn’t know about that / issues with Organic Maps

MythTV - as others have already mentioned. It’s designed to work with the 10’ interface

Even records TV programs (presuming you have tuner hardware of course) - which I don’t think the others can do?

We don’t stream Netflix, but we do watch other various streams (ie BBC iPlayer), yoochoob, etc - all works fine, inc… video files from various sources, and music…

We use it with a Logitech K400 wireless keyboard and it works great for us.

I have played with a more traditional looking TV wand remote in the past, but you still need a keyboard to type in program websites, names, etc. so the K400 became our defacto remote.

MythTV used to come with Ubuntu as Mythbuntu back in the day, but most of the pre-installed distros have fallen away, so you’d need to pick a distro and install it yourself.

It’s a very mature application, so you won’t need to keep updating every time you want to watch anything.

Yes. And No.

I have a home made (arch btw) NAS that stores all our files - mostly via syncthing, even from remote family.

That was it.

Then I installed Immich so that we could see the photos… so… it’s technically just a NAS, but it does now have a web application running on it…

Videos & Music are on a completely separate MythTV box which existed before the NAS - I saw no point in moving ~3TB of data to a separate box that would need to be powered when I want to watch / listen to something… my NAS powers itself up & down throughout the day to save electricity (and it was interesting to learn how to make it know when it was / wasn’t being used)

Download with yt-dlp. All of it. Even into a single folder if that’s easier.

Then run it all through Picard and that’ll do everything else for you - albumart, metadata, folders, filenames, the lot.

Anything that Picard doesn’t know about, enter it into the MusicBrainz db to give back to the community.

Done.

We use VNC as we can record the sessions easily for later priof / discussion with our customers.

It’s in a VPN tunnel of course.

But of course, we also don’t use Google, AWS, etc as they’re not secure enough for us and we have our own SOCs

You’ve reminded me of a slightly off-topic point…

I tried to put Linux on an old laptop for a friend so their kids could use it… it had some weird (Realtek?) chip that was a combination of things (ie video and networking?) and Linux just couldn’t drive it, so I had to give up.

That’s the only Linux failure I’ve had and it was also the one where I told them it would definitely work…

If you’re looking for a different approach, I moved from Nextcloud to Radicale for my family calendars, which includes ToDo functionality.

From an app point, for Android I’m using Fossify Calendar (which I think you’re using?) and Tasks.Org ToDo - and this definitely handles recurring tasks (inc. with different types of schedules)

From a remote access point of view, I have HA Proxy to convert the internal HTTP traffic into external HTTPS traffic (with Lets Encrypt certificate)

(Yes, I also have a VPN for other things… just focusing here for the calendar / todo)

Admittedly I’ve just scanned your list, but from a repair shop POV, surely the legal licensing would be of interest?

Ie, someone brings in an old device thst won’t run Win7 let alone 11 - but you can’t repair / upgrade without being very careful with the COA license

Linux: no issues.