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A total of 15MB. These AAA games could learn a lesson or two.

The Framework 13 laptop is around 1200€ , New ThinkPads are over your budget by a lot, except for the ThinkPad L14 AMD which is just outside your budget, but would probably fit your requirements

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/02/github-besieged-by-millions-of-malicious-repositories-in-ongoing-attack/

Not even github can fix the problem.

Be aware of it, and don’t click any links in the notifications.

Well… you asked for one: helix-editor.com

So far it’s nice, but I still prefer my vim+mods

Yep. Keep the WAN port dhcp Client enabled if you can, just one less thing to worry about.

Also take note that when you change the static IP of the new router it would conflict with the old one (and dhcp might fail). So you might need to set your local clients IP. Take note of the configuration it has and the steps to set it manually.

The rest all sounds right.

Your router’s IP can be anything. Choose any internal IP address on your subnet.

You can have 2 routers on the same subnet just make sure you disable DHCP on the new one while you perform the setup of everything else.
Then when you want to switch over, toggle on dhcp on the new router and replace the cables and you should be fine. You’ll know it’s working when you plug into it and get a default route of the new router.

The only thing I would change is your backup drive. Linux can write to NTFS without issues. You’d be better off with 2 TB instead of 2x1TB.

I would get rid of all the HDDs for games as they are too slow. Verifying files under steam or other clients is so slow compared to SSDs. (If you can afford it of course, otherwise it’s fine)

There isn’t anything else wrong per-se. Except for still having windows installed 🤣. Proton (wine) via steam or lutris, solves 99% of all issues with running games on linux. (except for Anti-Cheat games like valorant).