From 880feedc91a5c1fe4262a5cd8f5c394a51424102 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Hazem Krimi Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:30:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] wip: self hosting blog post content --- content/blog/linux-self-hosting-journey/index.md | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/blog/linux-self-hosting-journey/index.md b/content/blog/linux-self-hosting-journey/index.md index 0e3ef99..2c88796 100644 --- a/content/blog/linux-self-hosting-journey/index.md +++ b/content/blog/linux-self-hosting-journey/index.md @@ -3,22 +3,22 @@ title: "The Switch To Linux And The Beginning Of My Self-Hosting Journey" description: "How I got into Linux and how that eventually led me to get into self-hosting." keywords: ["Self Hosting", "Linux", "Homelab", "VM", "GPU Passthrough"] date: 2026-01-24 -draft: true --- I made the full switch into Linux in 2023 thanks to following YouTubers like [Luke Smith](https://www.youtube.com/@LukeSmithxyz) and [Mental Outlaw](https://www.youtube.com/MentalOutlaw) to name a few and then got into the rabbit hole of self-hosting on a budget therefore it is safe for me to say that I am somewhat experienced in this practice so I will walk you in this post on my setups over those 3 years, what I learned and what are my plans for the future. -## The Switch +## Linux As My Main OS -Back then I only had a desktop that I bought the year before and was using Windows 10 on it and using it for gaming and work since at that time I was working with Microsoft software. Here are its specs (The only thing that remained till now is the GPU and case as I replaced everything else going forward): +Back then I only had a desktop that I bought the year before and was using Windows 10 on it and using it for gaming and work since at that time I was working with Microsoft software. Here are its specs (the only thing that remained till now is the GPU and case as I replaced everything else going forward): - i5 10400. - 16 GB DDR4 RAM. - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8GB VRAM. - 1 TB SSD. +Here is a picture of my desktop where I first bought it (apologies about the image quality): + ![Picture of my desktop in 2023](./2023-desktop.jpg) For me the main reason for making the switch to Linux is that I wanted to learn it hands on and dedicate my computer for software development, I started out with Debian 11 as my first distro. - I wasn't doing too much gaming but I came up with a solution for some of the games I was playing with friends that had Anti-Cheat and that was a VM with GPU passthrough thanks to QEMU/KVM which was built in and allowed me to have a config in such a way that Windows and the Anti-Cheat software can't figure that they are running in a VM.