I personally use CheckMK.
One thing is that it can be a lot to take in at first and took me a while to get used to it.
It sounds like your goal is a headless server for running various services on? If that's the case, I'd stick with a well supported, mainstem LTS distro. Rocky Linux (RHEL9) or Ubuntu Server is where I'd start.
Typical software stack for me is Cockpit (bare metal management), Nginx Proxy Manager, and Portainer CE.
If your system has a decent amount of memory, >32GB, ZFS in a raidz2 configuration for storage. Keep in mind that if you go the ZFS route that it's memory hungry by design.
For backup software, I ended up going with Restic but there are plenty of good solutions out there. Just make sure that you have one.
Hopefully this gives you an idea where to start looking. Ultimately it comes down to a lot of research, realizing there are a lot of valid ways to go about this, and then choosing the one that makes the most sense to you.
Is the drive totally dead? Curious what SMART would report.
My gut feeling is that it's probably cheaper to buy a replacement m.2 than the hours of time to get netboot working but it could be a fun project!
Oh yeah I totally forgot about loadout presets. That would be sweet!
My hope is that AH is planning for a weapon upgrade system that would allow you to attach different optics to weapons. That would explain why some of the weapons that you would want to have optics, don't... chough chough railgun
Here's the link to their GitHub
I've been keeping an eye on GameVault as it does exactly what I want from a server perspective. I'm just waiting for a Linux native client or integration the HeroicLauncher or Lutris. The devs are pretty active in this community too!
Glad the "gigabytes" of Mable pictures on my phone could could finally be put to good use! 😅
Meet Mable, she likes diving under blankets to "hide" from you.
ROCK AND STONE!
I having one of those things... Ya' know a picture with words...
Heroic Games Launcher could be the answer. The GameVault devs wouldn't need to reinvent the wheel with a Linux client dealing with all the proton sand boxing. Just add to the heroic launcher.
Looks like someone has already had a similar thought too...
https://github.com/Heroic-Games-Launcher/HeroicGamesLauncher/issues/2951
Understandable! I'll keep an eye on the project for the future!
I might try running it in bottles and see what the experience is like.
Any progress on the plans for a native Linux client or Web Interface? Last I checked there was only a Windows client available (although it could be ran within proton to be fair).
While Windows is no doubt the popular gaming OS ATM, I think you'll find a much higher population of Linux users amongst the self-hosted crowd.
Your service is exactly what I want for my GOG library, so I'd love to give it a spin!