The biggest advantage for docker in the "home lab" environment is to be able to try out an app, but if you decide you don't like it, removal is simply deleting the container and the data folder. That's it. No trace left.

Sadly you can't say that for installed apps.

But I agree, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Seems DietPi will be right up your street and look after things exactly how you want, simply 😁

Originally it was for the Pi, but can also be installed on x64 PC systems, either UEFI or BIOS, so basically runs on anything. It does run great on a Pi, it's biggest advantage being that it logs to RAM, which massively saves on SD card wear. It's also the only current distro which works reliably on the original Pi 1 nowadays (if you still have those hanging around!)

And I get that everyone saying "Docker!" is a bit boring, but there is a reason for it - containerising everything does make it a lot easier to manage and migrate everything to another system or revert back a single component to a different version. And you just backup a config file and your data folder for each container and you can recreate your system so easily. If you install directly, you have to worry about databases, file paths, permissions.. but as you said, there's nothing wrong with just installing stuff. Especially if it's only a few programs.

I run 26 docker containers. Installing all those on a system would be a mess.....

I'll add my vote as it's not been mentioned: DietPi - based on Debian (since the majority are recommending that) and has a really easy "one click" menu system to install apps (of which include Jellyfin, Plex). And a built in updater to keep everything up to date. And it'll install on pretty much anything (SBCs, new PCs, old PCs, VMs).

No need to use docker, it installs everything directly, though it does support it if you want to go down that route.

Or, DietPi with CasaOS which is a web interface and app store for docker installations.

Lastly, Plex have their own guide on what you need to copy to move your Plex data from one system to another: https://support.plex.tv/articles/201370363-move-an-install-to-another-system/

To quote Under Siege 2 "assumption is the mother of all fuck ups".

3 years, dude! 😁

Enjoy giving Windows 11 a proper spin. I recommend choosing "English (World)" as the language/location, then you don't get any of the post install bloat / sponsored apps, etc installed too. Then when you log in, just change your locale to the correct one if you want to use the Microsoft Store. Or don't, if you want that to remain disabled.

30 seconds on Google would've answered your question.

The TPM is part of the Intel Management Engine in your CPU.

In your motherboard UEFI firmware, goto Security - Trusted Computing and enable Security Device support.

Et voilà.

Certainly YMMV. I have an HP 8720 and it works wirelessly perfectly, Windows finds it and installs it automatically. Including the scanner. Even works from my wife's Chromebook. I can print from my Android phone without any issue.

I do pay for the HP ink subscription, but it's only 99p per month, and that's 15 pages with rollover and that suits our need 99% of the time.

I had reliability issues with PiHole and moved to AdGuardHome a couple of years ago. It has never, ever crashed and the updates takes a couple of seconds. It rocks.

Yes, our 365 team got estimates from Microsoft about 3 weeks ago.

If we don't cull our usage before next August, our renewal will be £1m more than this year... That's for 70,000 accounts and a whole lotta SharePoint.

You can't run Android Auto directly on your phone anymore, it was disabled last year. It only runs as a service to be used by a suitable head unit.

Wireguard needs kernel access so needs to run privileged.

Re. the Mag-Stripe. Bare in mind the US is <10% of the market for the Samsung phones. And then you'd need to break down of the Samsung phones sold in North America - how many of those were S-series vs. the others which don't support the mag-stripe. Even if 50-50, that's now <5% of phones which have mag-stripe support in a country that uses it. Then rough guess of 20% of users actually pay by phone? You're now <1%. A small pale blue dot in the vast cosmic arena...

SD cards - there's also the point of user data security. Data stored on an SD card can't be easily guarenteed safe by Knox. Yes, you can encrypt it, but remove that SD card and the card itself can't protect the data from brute forcing encyption keys.

Well, congrats to you. But as I said - on the same hardware, AGH runs so much smoother and more reliably. Maybe piHole is more reliable now - but back when I was using it, upgrades would kill configs, you'd have to reinstall -- it was a common thing every few months. Forgot to mention, AGH also runs on BSD, which means you can run it on your Opsense / pFsense box too if you run one.