…The feature first appeared in notes surrounding a recent Steam app update (via Tom's Hardware ). Alongside a straightforward FPS number, Framerate Estimator also displays a graph based on the actual performance…
…Performance is solid, hardware compatibility is excellent, and the polish that came from years of updates makes it look and feel like a genuinely modern OS. But when I started using it…
…It's a new feature , still in beta stage, which auto-compiles shaders for your most used games after a driver update. New driver updates always force the GPU to recompile shaders…
…But I also wanted something that could be easily maintained with off-the-shelf parts and run software that could always be updated, so long as the hardware could continue running it…
…Updates handled like a gamble Stability needs maintenance, not superstition Some Proxmox users update too aggressively, while others avoid updates as if they were cursed relics in a server closet. Both habits…
…Instead of spending on new hardware, I thought of repurposing that laptop as my homelab server. I'd figure out later whether it needed upgrades or a full replacement. Free was just…
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