I can’t emphasize enough, how much I and ol most others, could not give two fucks about hardening a home desktop. Just fine me a button. I don’t want to be trying passwords.

Year of the Linux desktop 2026.

Wat?

Almost like kids grow up and have tastes change. Parents can easily join in.

questions.

Do I need a specialized OS for it? No, but they may have additional tools to make it easier.

Could I run this on a Windows server? I’m personally a Linux guy, but a friend who prefers windows server wanted to try it and I thought I’d ask. Yes and ignore every neck beard here who tells you otherwise. Windows + WSL is a good way to have both.

Can I migrate Docker services to a Kube cluster?  How easy is it? Yes, and a moderate amount of work.

Windows works fantastic with k8s/wsl. Y’all just make up shit 🤣.

God forbid you try to create a platform made for multiple age groups. Like mustache twirling evil 🙄.

You can kindly fuck off with this level of hand holding lol. Forcing me to +x by default is a massive pain in the ass.

Skill issue.

MSI tomahawk mags, one with a 10700, the other with a12700. Nvidia GPUs. Nothing out of the ordinary.

I’ve had issues on multiple devices.

If you pick the correct hardware. Which is a crap shoot per distro, bazzite included.

Unless you are looking to learn nix, go with Windows or Apple.

Unless you made sure all the hardware works and you want to fuck around Linux ain’t for normies despite what this forum is going to screech at you.