My 5-year-old 5600X is still good enough for 2026, and I'm not upgrading to AM5
…Heck, I even armed my Ryzen 5 5600X PC with Proxmox (on a spare SSD, not my primary boot drive) and passed the RTX 3080 Ti to a Windows 11 virtual machine…
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I stopped dismissing FreeBSD after trying out its modern distros
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…Much like the PlayStation, Xbox, or Switch, it will be a purpose-built gaming box with unified hardware. It's one piece of hardware, one ecosystem, and one place to troubleshoot. For…
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