many people just buy junk like this https://www.amazon.com/Mikrotik-Router-Switch-CRS305-CRS305-1G-4S/dp/B08437RDM1 it’s cheaper in the long run.

You will need a good 10Gb nic, I have been using Intel nic’s if you use a Intrusion Prevention System that can eat away at the CPU, also more RAM helps like 8GB’s or more for IPS, I use 16GB’s for IPS + ZFS and a nice Switch can help a lot as it can do DNS and the works, more or less i use a firewall box to a Switch and use a Layer 3 Switch for routing, some can do 20+Gb’s routing.

I just do clean installs anymore not a lot to do with Linux as vs Windows, Linux takes me like 30 mins to setup as vs Windows can take hours.

this is what i do, i look it up on the firmware selector and go from there.

https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org/

Android apps on flathub will be lovely.

sudo su - ?

LFS Ftw!

any updates for wifi 7 drivers?

I use ZFS on my workstations with Debian, but yeah full drive is the way to go i think even Linux Mint does full drive anymore, also remember to keep backups.

Form what i seen someone reported a bug that AMD APUs will spam a system with a Nvidia GPU.

nothing running, nothing in top it just has one CPU thread at 100% also this laptop has a NPU and I think it is a Nvidia 4050 Max-Q.

it does not is why i think it maybe firmware or Driver issues etc i will work on debugging it at a later date also it maybe jest bad hardware as well if not i’m not buying anything from HP.

it maybe AMD-TEE issues or a Driver/Firmware bug i really don’t know at this point it looks like i may have a lot of debugging to do does Zen support AMD-TEE?

all DE’s have cpu usage issues and it does not show me whats going on. also i miss the part Nvidia issues was gnome 3 forks only.

The CPU thread runs at 100% with all DE’s/OSes i tested so far and the Nvidia Drivers and Steam had bad issues with Gnome 3 forks, but work fine with Mate and KDE I even gave the Open Kernel Driver a ago before reinstalling a new OS with a a different DE.

A big issue i have it does not show any process running at 100% and i tested Kernel 6.8 to 6.11.Rc.x Nvidia Release, Beta etc I used performance and the default’s on Ubuntu and Fedora, i even tried to disable USB power saving mode that is a common issue with Linux on laptops, you think something like amd_pstate=guided etc will fix it? I seen many types of hardware, driver and firmware bugs over the years but i have not seen one like this in maybe 6-10 years and the last was a Intel atom CPU? and maybe a few Realtek Driver issue’s, i’m going to try Debian unstable etc soon, but i need to buy a USB SSD but my LMDE laptop with a backport Kernel works fine on my other laptop without a Nvidia GPU, and i think Debian’s Kernels has AMD-TEE support as of Kernel 6.9.7?, i have not had to debug hardware in a long time and i have a lot going on for the next few month’s so if up stream does not fix it i can start debugging I’m going to do a little bit like disabling hardware to see if it is the nic or a usb port etc.

I been using the open kernel driver with my Debian Workstation, it has worked better then the default driver by far with the Debian backport Kernel, I installed it using the Nvidia Cuda Repo.

Nope they’re killing off the proprietary driver on the Kernel side.

Same as Debian but with pre-installed firmware, and other stuff. also the desktop GUI gets updates and it has backports enabled by default.

it really is and i been liking green Debian as well.

Good things take time