I like MakeMKV. It also works flawlessly with modern formats like (4k-)BluRays. Also it’s super simple to use. Just throw your disk in, press the big shiny button and wait till it rips your disk. It even handles the decryption for you.
Oh, one more thing regarding the ssh wizardry (lol!): It’s not that complicated. You can pass your command as last parameter. For example if you want to launch Dorfromantik (which you should btw), you could do it like this:
ssh me@mymachine "steam steam://rungameid/1455840"
That’s the whole magic. Like this it won’t start an interactive shell, but run the command and closes the connection once the command finishes.
A man, a word. This is my gamescope-session.sh
#!/bin/sh
export DXVK_HDR=1
/usr/bin/gamescope --hdr-enabled -e -- /usr/bin/steam-native -tenfoot
I’ve created a /usr/share/wayland-sessions/gamescope-session.desktop for it, so I can launch it from login screen (or auto start it in my case)
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Steam Big Picture Mode
Comment=Start Steam in Big Picture Mode
Exec=/home/chaser/bin/gamescope-session.sh
Type=Application
In theory this should run all games, that support hdr in hdr. At least Cyberpunk does.
If I remember correctly I had to give gamescope a flag to enable hdr at all. However there was an env too, to tell the windows games through proton, that the machine supports hdr. I’ll check my scripts later for you
+1 for Lutris! It’s not only good for games, but also for regular Windows software like FL Studio. Another “tool” I use a lot is ssh. I use Gamescope on my PC with Steam Big Picture mode. Gamescope gains a few more fps, than a regular de. Also HDR works just fine with it. See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Gamescope However. Sometimes I need an desktop environment. So I created a Home Assistant automation, that allows me to switch to desktop. Now I have 2 buttons on my smartwatch. One to boot the PC and turn on the tv, avr, etc. The other for the desktop mode. I also have some nfc cards for my favorite games. Same thing here: When scanned they trigger a ha automation, which starts the games over ssh 😎
If you want to start cheap, I can recommend you to use an old notebook. In my opinion it’s the perfect home server for beginners.
Most services don’t need much. So it’s just fine if your “server” is like 10 years old. My first notebook server had 2 cores and 4 GB ram and it run Proxmox with like 10 lxc containers just fine.
My internet provider offers up to 4 sim cards per account. They cost once 10€, without a monthly fee. However they have only 300mb of high speed traffic. But this should be just fine for a tracker, no? Just have a look in your customer portal. Maybe you’ll find something there too