Not sure about wifi cameras, I have a mix of Trendnet and Hikivision POE, sitting on a Vlan with no internet access. For the software I use Blue Iris. Where I have a need for cameras I have only a Windows server and I have found this software to be the best for me.

Personally, I’ve had terrible luck with Seagate drives, and the subsequent warranty process. I sent a 12TB Ironwolf back for bad sectors in July and I still don’t have my replacement. They shipped me one once, but UPS sent it back because it didn’t have clearance to cross the border into Canada. I spent hours on the chat getting bounced around, I could find no phone number to call. The experience has been awful. I’ve had other bad experiences with Seagate in the past but the price on the Ironwolfs was so good, but now I really wish I had just got some WD reds or something. I got 3 left in my QNAP and i am praying another doesn’t fail before I get this replacement or my array is toast.

Yeah Lenovo tinies ares great I have a bunch of m910q’s I use for everything

I have a stack of 5th - 7th Gen tinies I can’t seem to get rid of lol

Yeah I am in and out of it constantly.

I tried for a little while with VirtualBox on Ubuntu but just found it inconvenient.

Sometimes you want to play a specific game.

For me, it’s QuickBooks that requires windows. I use Linux everywhere except on the bookkeeping machines for my business.

I care about what’s being tracked on those machines for sure.