🐧 Linux - Transcendent Delight

I'm here to share my absolute delight and elation regarding Linux in particular and OSS in general. Although I have been using Linux at home for over a decade now, I have never felt as elated and happy about its functioning and performance as recently.

1. I have a relatively beefy rig, and started using KVM - VFIO passthrough solutions a few months back, to pass-through my Nvidia GPU to setup a new Windows VM. I run Manjaro KDE on the host. I got into this setup, as I wanted to start playing some games on Windows and setup some gaming for my kid. I didn't want to dual boot because that's so last decade. Had to learn about VFIO, QEMU and stuff like that a bit, but the Linux kernel with its build in KVM is an absolute fantastic piece of software. The optimizations that can be put in to achieve near identical performance on a VM close to bare metal is phenomenal. After some iterations of which configuration to use for my Windows VM, I finally settled on something I'm really happy about. I also use this VM to game stream all my games to any computer or TV in the house or play VR. During all this reconfiguration and reinstall of the VM's, the host Manjaro OS (could be any other distro) has been rock solid, amazing and performing like a champ. Getting a keyboard-mouse sharing tool like Barrier to work between host and VM is an icing on the cake and a sublime experience.
2. All other machines at home(excluding work laptops), including desktops and laptops at home for other family run Linux. My Media server, VPN server, adblocking server, file sharing servers all run Linux. My entire computing platform right now is Linux.

I wish to do many more projects to improve my quality of life in the future. But as someone who likes to get geeky interacting with computers and computing in general, Linux has been a game changer and offers unrivaled potential. Thanks to various communities around Linux and OSS around the interwebs that have helped umpteen of us in the past and would support us in the future.

P.S. Although I do play a few games on Linux using Steam and Proton, I haven't explored Linux's gaming potential fully yet. Something to do in the near future :)