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  • It is likely floundering because anyone with more than beginner networking/security knowledge know that having everything combined is a very very bad idea.

    Having it all in one means that when someone gets access to it, they get access to everything.

    You are much better off having separate devices for:

    • Router/firewall
    • NAS device
    • WiFi Access Point
    • Server
    • Switch

    And you should be using VLAN’s to only allow devices access to what they need.

    And as a plus having everything separated means if one device breaks or you need to upgrade, you only have to replace that one part instead on replacing the all in one device costing 50 times more.






  • The issues with Nvidia GPU’s has been blown up way to much in the last few years in my opinion.

    The potential problems you “might” face are:

    • Not backing up your system before updating
    • Using too old or too new a kernel version (Older versions may break or cause issue with newer drivers and bleeding edge kernels may introduce issues that weren’t caught during QA) * Always have a LTS kernel installed as well as a newer supported kernel
    • Using brand new hardware too soon (aka don’t expect a newly released card to work perfectly day one)
    • Trying to use GPU’s in edge case uses or pushing the envelope without knowing what you are doing
    • Not backing up your system
    • Trying to use the wrong kind of card for your needs (A Quadro card isn’t going to work well as a RTX card)
    • Not updating your system (Nvidia drivers get regular updates)

    For most major distros now a days you either select the Nvidia option when installing (like Manjaro) or install the drivers afterwards (Ubuntu based) and be off to the races.

    Set up and use Timeshift, make a backup before installing updates and you can roll back if there is an issue.