Definitely agree. If you need to spin up a bunch of discrete VMs for labbing, that’s one thing, but noise, cooling, power consumption, and space all come into play for dedicated hardware. I host a variety of services and they all run on small, low energy hardware (which is often pretty cheap). I just spun up a matrix server on a $100 ebay HP ProDesk which has plenty of power (probably enough to deploy my whole stack).

I’ve always felt that Arch has the least amount of personal compromises. For “bleeding edge,” it’s also generally stable and has a wealth of community support and documentation.

I just got done making sleeved cables for a fightstick, so I’m not afraid of the tedium. Just concerned about burning my build up.

How concerned do I need to be about pinout if I go through a supplier like modDIY? My understanding is that it’s not recommended to mix and match PSU cables from multiple manufacturers.

It’s a component/case directory

Not quite sure who maintains it, but I’ve found it to be incredibly helpful with recent upgrades.

This is so exciting that someone created this community. Hope we can still utilize the great resources like the google spreadsheet.