Yup. I got so wrapped up in “I need to provide this solution” I forgot to think about terminology.

headscale + tailscale. U will need a very small vps for headscale though.

Nothing really, I mostly want to experiment (but trying to do it without changing my workflow much), from suggestions both atomic and qubes options r looking interesting

Thanks. Adding qubes to the list. I may not use it for trying distro but separating workflow is good idea.

Thanks

Maybe just new DE. And I keep having intermittent issues with keyboard in fedora (can absolutely be hardware / firmware issue and I will see it in other distro as well

Sorry didn’t notice second part as soon as I saw ventoy/liveusb. What I’m looking for is very superficial (apart from atomic distro). I’m looking to see if I like using distro. I’ve exact same packages on my fedora (laptop) and pop os (desktop), I keep thinking I still like pop os (maybe just what I’m used to).

Oh interesting, I may need to look into atomic distro more. As of now I don’t understand what are features, pros/cons. I’ll read up but it’s definitely looking like way forward for me. If u have resources please link them.

Is it terminal only?

I’ll check this, when it’s VM I don’t generally spend required time to use it (my problem). I just get on primary os, do whatever I wanted and log off. This is the main reason I’m hesitant of VM.

Ventoy or liveusb is good for installing something but doesn’t seem good idea to actually run long term.

I actually run proxmox on my homelab. What does unraid bring over pve? I didn’t think of running proxmox on desktop

I was overthinking it bit too much. I simply have to enable sharing

got it, also I was overthinking it bit too much. I simply have to enable sharing

Bookmarking this location in file manager also causes problem.

I’m not mounting home directory itself but my samba mount point directory was inside home directory. For e.g. /home/user/share1

Is there an explanation somewhere about how to do this? I was thinking I needed uPnP server on HTPC but after reading some more realized that’s probably not the thing. Then I found VLC should be able to do it (https://www.baeldung.com/linux/upnp-dlna-clients)

we just select Universal Plug’n’Play from theLocal Network category on the left.

but after that it doesn’t just show up under device where I can cast

I think gmediarenderer is what I’m looking for

updated OP for now

I’ll have a look at this, updated OP for now

updated OP