Hi, so I want to building a pc for a home server (?) or NAS. I dont really know whats the most appropriate term but what I intend to build is a one pc for my household. currently my requirement is one work ‘pc’ capable of heavy 3d modeling one light work pc. two 4k gaming tvs. (they most likely wont be used at the same time)

my knowledge of technical stuff is bretty basic so please be patient with me.

before, i used my steam deck to stream my work pc using parsec but i thought i just want to jump all in on linux and using vm to use more niche 3d softwares.

my budget is flexible as long as i dont need to use enterprise hardware. also i heard nvidia is not good for linux so i’d like to confirm if that is still the case as im thinking of using 5090 if not, i hope amd releases an equivalent capable card or if any according my quick research suggest.

as for linux, the only distro (?) i ever used is the steam deck one and i love it. im not a programmer or even remotely capable one so i’d like to avoid anything that has to be manually typing commands at terminal but im open to surface level tinkering.

thank you for your time

  • Cikos@lemmy.worldOP
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    22 hours ago

    thank you for the extra info. I’m interested in how you make the script for turning off monitor remotely, it def sound super useful.

    • octobob@lemmy.ml
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      12 hours ago

      It’s actually very simple:

      monitors-on:

      #! /bin/bash

      hyprctl keyword monitor DP-1, 2560x1440@144, 0x0, 1

      hyprctl keyword monitor DP-3, 2560x1440@144, 2560x0, 1

      hyprctl keyword monitor HDMI-A-1, disable

      monitors-off is basically same thing but reversed:

      #! /bin/bash

      hyprctl keyword monitor DP-1, disable

      hyprctl keyword monitor DP-3, disable

      hyprctl keyword monitor HDMI-A-1, 0x0@60, 1

      es-de

      I’m still working out some kinks with audio so I don’t wanna go down the rabbit hole hell that is pactl and pavucontrol in this post. But that’s more of a universal Linux gripe I have than distro specific.

      Obviously you’ll need to tweak the script to what your specific setup is. The first numbers are x & y axis and the second is refresh rate. This is just an example. It’s also Wayland only but you can do this in x11 no problem

      As far as “remotely” switching, I just assigned the scripts to keybinds in the hyprland config file. Super easy.