After spending three years running a home server rack in my office, I learned that finding the right rackmount NAS makes all the difference. The best rackmount NAS for a home server rack needs to balance power, noise levels, and depth requirements that enterprise gear often ignores. I tested eight different models in my 12U … Read more
Every month, another cloud photo service changes its pricing, terms, or feature set. Self-hosting Immich on your own NAS puts you back in control of your photos, videos, and memories, without subscriptions or third-party scanning. Immich is an open-source Google Photos alternative that runs as a stack of Docker containers (server, microservices, machine learning, PostgreSQL, … Read more
We spent three months running Nextcloud AIO on eight different NAS enclosures, timing photo backups, file syncs, and remote uploads before settling on the models that actually make self-hosting enjoyable. If you are looking for the best NAS for self-hosting Nextcloud, the short version is this: get an x86 machine with at least 8GB of … Read more
Running a small business out of an office means your files live everywhere except where you need them. One person swears by Dropbox, another keeps everything on a desktop, and the bookkeeper’s archives sit on an external drive in a drawer. When we set out to find the best NAS for a small business office, … Read more
My old NAS sat about four feet from my pillow, and its 40mm fan whined all night like a mosquito with a grudge. That is exactly the problem a fanless NAS for a quiet bedroom solves: no fan, no spinning platters, no reason to lie awake counting drive clicks. Traditional enclosures push 20 to 40+ … Read more
MangoHud is a free, open-source Vulkan and OpenGL overlay built specifically for Linux gamers. It displays real-time FPS, frame times, CPU/GPU usage, temperatures, and VRAM consumption directly on top of your game, giving you the same kind of visibility Windows users get from MSI Afterburner or RivaTuner. Our team has been running MangoHud across Steam, … Read more
Yes, Linux can recognize NTFS drives, and yes, you can run Steam games off them. Getting NTFS Steam Linux to play nicely together requires a few specific mounting options plus one critical symlink, because Proton creates files that NTFS considers illegal. I have run dozens of games this way on a dual-boot machine for the … Read more
Controller detection problems in Steam and Proton on Linux happen when the Proton compatibility layer fails to pass gamepad input from your controller to the game. This usually occurs after a Proton update, a Steam Input configuration change, or when gamescope interferes with input passthrough. The good news is that most of these issues are … Read more
Yes, you can dual boot Windows 11 and Linux on one SSD without losing data, and I have walked a dozen first-timers through the process with their files still intact at the end. The trick is not speed. The trick is following the right sequence: back up first, shrink the Windows partition properly, and let … Read more
I remember the first time this happened to me. I had just finished installing Ubuntu next to my Windows 10 partition, hit reboot, and watched the system glide straight into Windows. No purple GRUB menu. No choice. No Linux. That sinking feeling is the reason you are here. You installed Linux alongside Windows, and now … Read more