I should install Debian to replace my current Ubuntu install at some point. Might move some services I run to a VM to reduce effort when reinstalling my OS. Then it’s just install steam and copy over my game backup folders. Plus with a VM I can easily move it to a proxmox mini PC if I ever get round to buying one.

Used mssql-server at work where we usually use windows and its a bit shit if you want low memory hosting. Though when I have run MySQL I haven’t tested low resource systems to compare that either tbh.

Can’t you run Apache on pretty old hardware? I thought it was something you could happily run on even some of the older versions of raspberry pi. Probably depends on what you are hosting on it of course.

Kinda want a low lower draw device to use as a server, ideally proxmox and just backup the whole VM image once its setup. But not sure how much I would really use. Very basic Apache/php, pihole, not sure if there is too much else.

Maybe factorio servers if I get into clusterIO stuff again.

Its also based on wine, they can’t fork wine and close source it. But you can fork it and use it anywhere else, just have to make sure any changes you make are also open.

So Lutris is free to use wine/proton.

Sometimes, and it isn’t as transparent as GOG.

Proton is open source, you don’t need to use steam to benefit from it.

Care to elaborate?

At least you know they can never enshitify what you have already bought and downloaded.

Valve don’t even care if your game has PC and console players playing together.

We have GOG too