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You won't be disappointed by it's "effectiveness" or "compatibility". I run Plex myself and have no issues with it across Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and chromecast from the latter.

Heh, I wish I didn't have to spend $1600 on this thing myself but it was my ultimate goal to finish off my PC build from late last year (yeah, it took me till now to save for the monitor). I would jump all over a 4k model in future for work / productivity tasks. The pixel density at 3440x1440 should satisfy me for a good few years until I can afford a new PC again.

I bought the X34 recently and absolutely love it, but it's the first monitor I've purchased in over 10 years so I realistically can't compare it to anything. I think your choice will come down more to whether you want ultrawide (21:9) or just 16:9. Personally, I'm never going back. FPS games, racing sims, Rocket League, GTA, they all ROCK at this ratio, and the screen realestate afforded me by the extra horizontal pixels makes working from home with my laptop a rather joyous experience too.

- VPN Leave this up to your home router. Many home routers have at least some form of VPN server on them. - Minecraft server No experience with it but a small server not running 24/7 shouldn't be an issue - SSH You go with Linux, it's a given and it's not going make any difference to performance. - File storage It really depends how you're going to handle it. If you buy a used server with a RAID card, you're golden, you can just create your favourite flavour of network shares on top of it. - Owncloud This is the biggest beast, speaking from experience. While it's sitting idle it doesn't do anything, but start to upload / download lots of files and watch the CPU usage start spiking. - Plex Similar story to Owncloud although I haven't done much performance monitoring of my plex server to see what it uses. - Mail Kinda depends what solution you end up going with but I don't see your use case being very power hungry - Docker This one depends on what you want to DO with docker. Each container you run in docker should be considered a separate item on this list. - FTP This isn't going to impact performance - Teamspeak Doesn't use much horsepower, just need to ensure you have the bandwidth for it, which isn't much I would probably say two VM's on a used server with two 4 - 6 core cpu's and 32gb of ram will do you well enough. Someone mentioned Proxmox, and that's a good place to start, or VMWare ESXi which is also free. I'd probably run the filestorage, owncloud and plex on one VM, with half of your core count. And a second vm to run your minecraft, teamspeak, mail etc. You can then move some things to their own extra VM's if you end up with more powerful hardware. That all being said, you don't NEED server grade hardware. I've got a mix of devices at home. 1x Dell T410 server with 32gb ram and 2x 6core xeons but honestly, it uses too much power and is currently collecting dust. I run my Plex server on an old HP ultra small form factor desktop who's media library is on an NFS share hosted on my NAS.

Install ubuntu on the spare machine, then install Owncloud on top of that. You can think of it as pretty much a free and open source version of Drop Box. There's windows, linux and mac clients, as well as iOS and Android clients for it. You can even link Owncloud to your other cloud storage accounts if you don't want to use your own storage locally.

I have a 980Ti and I'll be honest, I would probably sell it and my 980Ti for some sweet sweet GTX1080 action. Can't have enough horsepower when trying to run triple monitors

I foresee one hell of a racing / flight sim setup

Is it a 32bit or 64bit tablet? I have a Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 2 here that is one of the 32bit Atom chips and is slow as BALLS with windows. Turns out that while the tablet was only 32bit, UEFI is typically only supported on 64bit, and as such the linux distros I was trying to use which would only do 64bit UEFI would never work. I still haven't found a way around that issue and as such, the tablet is still sitting here doing nothing.

This. Get a ChromeCast, even if your TV is a 'smart' one. Navigating an on screen menu with a remote vs using your phone/tablet to do the same, plus the benefit of a full touchscreen keyboard when you need to search for something. That being said, my experience is a comparison between the plex client on a Raspberry Pi + remote passthrough vs android app + chromecast so my experience was probably a LOT laggier than anything anyone else has used.

I ended up trying it on a couple of laptops and then a Surface Pro 3. Holy resolution batman! Really impressed with Remix, I can see some small, light, convertible tablets becoming a whole lot better with Remix on them than windows. Only complaint was it made the fan in the Surface sound like a jet engine and the thing became as hot as an oven.

I just read an article about RemixOS today and have the install downloading as I type. Would be really interesting to see an LTT video on it.

I gave up on BF4 earlier this year and I'm now playing Squad (early access on steam). Squad is being developed by a team of roughly 20, the guys originally behind the BF2 Project Reality mod. It's still in Alpha and it's already more stable than any patch version of ANY Battlefield game ever released. BF has continuously declined since 2 / 2142 to the point where it's now just COD with larger maps and some vehicles.

I'll stick my hand up on this one. I've still got elementary (freya) on an old Lenovo X200 floating around here somewhere. I fell in love with it's really clean and simple take on a UI. It's become my go-to desktop linux distro but honestly, I work with and play with more server systems than desktops, my work machine is a macbook and my main home PC is a Windows one for gaming. That being said, if we do end up getting more game support and driver support on Linux, I could see myself booting Elementary on the gaming PC.

Just finished Ep1, really impressed with the format this time round. Well done

Hmm, I had a quick look at amazon and for an instance with 8 vCPU's, 15gb ram (yes, 15), depending on whether you pay for time upfront or not, you'd be looking at around $150 - $300 a month, and that's just the game server.