Until you have dozens of them… Lol.

It’s Debian all the way down

I’m a Linux sysadmin. I was issued a Windows laptop. But I have been allowed to add a second NVME drive to it that has Debian 12 installed. So Debian 12 has been my main working environment.

I also have a desktop in my cube running Windows.

I rarely boot my laptop to windows. But if I need to do something with modifying Windows smb shares or active directory I just remote into my Windows Desktop. I’m also running a ssh server on my windows desktop so about half of my windows active directory work is done via powershell over ssh.

The guy says he couldn’t get a job at McDonalds due to lack of exerience.

Thats your problem dude. I can’t imagine a company hiring someone for a six figure job who has zero work exerience.

Get a helpdesk job for little while while you keep applying.

If you have room in the Optiplex for another drive I would definitely get a second spinning drive for storing your media. Truenas will complain about you only having 1 drive for your media. The nice thing about having a pair of drives in a mirror is that is makes it very easy to upgrade in the future. I was running a pair of 6tb drives, until my brother gave me the 10tb ones. I just shut the system down and swapped one of the 6tb for a 10tb and booted it back up. It detected that the mirror was broken and I just told it to use the 10tb drive to fix it. A few hours later after it was done, I did it again with the other drive and then told it to expand the storage to 10tb.

If you want to get a 4tb, you could mirror that to the 1tb, (and you would be limited to 1tb) but you would have redundancy and it would be easy to swap the 1tb for a 4 in the future.

If I were you I would do what I did with proxmox. Install it on the ssd. Create a virtual machine for the Nas with a smaller vitrual disk from the 512gb ssd, 60Gb should be fine, and pass it your graphics card for the media server and the sata drives for your Nas storage and media storage. Then you have your Nas that you can use as a media server and you can also easily spin up new virtual machines to play with or test with.

I have another vm that I use just for docker containers.

I would install truenas scale on the optiplex and run plex or jellyfin as a app from truenas.

Adding a second large drive for redundancy would be good, also a smallish ssd for the truenas os to run from.

My personal setup takes this level deeper. I have a desktop computer running proxmox. proxmox is installed on a nvme drive. I have a VM running truenas that I have passed my sata controller to. So my 2 10TB sata drives and my 500Gb sata ssd show up as native drives in truenas. The 10tb mirror holds my media library and long term backups. The 500gb ssd is for running apps on trunas like plex, syncthing.

actually opposite?

A cult is a thing, the opposite is not a thing. You can’t name not a thing.

It’s just everyone else doing whatever they want.

Tell me more.

Only the Salux brand though. I’ve gotten knock off ones that were way too smooth.

Yellowbird Habenero

I thought they got rid of the iguana mascot.

I guess they realized that it was the best thing about their brand.

Working in the office vs working from home.