The iGPU on the Ryzen 9 HX AI 370 is reasonably capable.

I also have a minisforum v3 with a Ryzen 7 8840U and sufficient for on the go Indy games as well as older AAA.

Yep! I mixed it up with the new minisforum and Lenovo tiny PCs.

https://frame.work/laptop13

I have a AMD 370 AI based Framework 13 and its really dang good. They have Intel and ARM RISC V options on top of the AMD options. I will say AMD graphics are probably the best experience you can have in linux at the moment. Nvidia is making some gains, and Intel’s next generation may have a decent iGPU finally.

The larger Framework 16 has a modular GPU tray that gives you options on different GPUs. I have not personally used one of these but the 16 looks awesome other than its size/weight for my applications.

https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/this-is-xps-now/

The new Dell XPS is probably another option.

Your budget may be a challenge right now since RAM prices have gone nuts. 32gb of DDR5 can cost $400us on its own.

Dont care, its where the task bar should go, and I should be able to configure it.

pacman -Syu
chown
chmod

I run teams and Outlook using versions in electron wrappers. For one drive I have to use the web interface to get to the shared storage because our folks don’t know how to set it up and I don’t care enough to figure it out for them.

I have one application that I really need to use that I still can’t get working in Linux but I’m still trying.

Yes it’s bait but also there is real science behind it. Sun spots are magnetic knots that are wound up magnetic lines. If the lines snap they could pull huge amounts of charged particles and launch them at earth.

The risk is that if big enough it could strip back the our magnetic field reducing our production from radiation and all the electrical charged particles. This could mean electrical systems are disrupted, destroyed, or even catch fire. In the worst case the amount of radiation could kill millions.

So yeah chances are very low but never 0.

Hey, sorry for the delay, I am glad to hear that @curbstickle@anarchist.nexus had Wireless Workbench running on wine because Proprietary software like that will be the biggest hangup.

For Qlab, how are you using it?

As for limitations, the biggest one will be stuff that is “industry standard” but was only ever developed for Mac & windows. Most stuff should run fine under wine or have an OSS/FOSS alternative worth using but specific tools that are by the MFG could be a problem.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.linuxshowplayer.LinuxShowPlayer Linux Show Player may be a good option to replace Qlab, but I have not used it personally.

If these systems are going to be deployed and used by other techs its not a bad idea to look at an immutable distro like Bazzite might be a good fit.

https://bazzite.gg/

One aspect of Linux that is different from windows is you get to select your desktop environment, IE window, menu, default applications, ect. The two big ones are KDE (a highly customizable windows like interface) and Gnome ( a more Mac like interface but still customizable). There are dozens of other window managers but I would focus on those two since they will be good starting points.

25y pro, 10y with Ross in live events and now with a small integrator.

What programs do you need to run?

Highly doubtful since it’s AMD to AMD.

No.

Honestly moving to a KDE desktop environment along with any well maintained Linux distro will feel like going back to Windows 7 but now with modern powershell

There will always be a few things different like not needing to download apps from websites. But most of the rest will feel normal.

Nearly everything you are talking about is easy and built into the vast majority of desktop linux distributions, and more than a few server ones too!

RDP: Remmina, KDE (windows like Desktop Environment)

Hyper-V: KVM+QEMU, but im going to ask why? There are very few reasons to do full virtual machines these days when you can just run everything as containers.

Plex: Plex

RAID5: use ZFS Z5 or linux mdadm r5. The advantages of ZFS is that you get lots of tools like snapshots, and reslivering which helps prevent bit rot.

Depending on your hardware I would honestly suggest your host OS be Proxmox, and then just run your gaming/personal system as a VM with GPU pass through. Proxmox has all the KVM+QEMU tools and ZFS tools baked in with a good web UI that makes managing these things easier.

If they have a remote office that is line of site from the top of the building then this would cost orders of magnitude less than running a dedicated line, or leasing/paying for a dedicated network connection between the two locations.

This would let whomever installed it have a direct, private, local network that spans two locations for under $5000.

looks like a point to point wireless networking device.

like this: https://docs.tomesh.net/network/supernode4.html

Could be I would bet they OEM an existing design. That happens all the time with security cameras.

No, its a normal PTZ Security camera.

So there are a few different tools that work. I think I’m using OneDrive UI. It will sync to your account.

https://x.com/MarshaBlackburn/status/1506772336812429319

https://x.com/CheriJacobus/status/1506823995856990212

Yeah I’m going to need you to send me a copy that way I can add it to my rotation.