If you have enough space and plan on using libvirt or any other virtualization technology that just lets you use img files as virtual disks, you can just dump the entire disk with dd:
(replace /dev/sda with the disk containing windows)
dd if=/dev/sda of=./windows-disk.img status=progress
I don’t know much about quicksync but it’s very likely that you’re just missing something on debian to have it working. I believe the hardware in that mini pc (particularly the 32gb of ram, that’s practically gold) is more than capable of running all the services you listed.
you will still need multilib for a while: https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/13015#issuecomment-4099423331
has it been a nightmare? I’m genuinely asking because I have it set up (with nextcloud master container) and although I don’t use it very often, the times I do it seems quite alright
Pretty much the same as any other incarnation of openwrt, just without a lot of the compatibility headaches and weird installation processes that you typically have with other architectures. It’s just install and forget pretty much.
As for the link speed, you can just cat /sys/class/net/eth*/speed as with any other linux system. Not sure how your configurations stopped working or broke, maybe your storage got corrupted or something? Hard to tell, but I doubt openwrt caused it on its own, it sounds new to me.
As for opensense, I just like openwrt better. Also yeah sure I bought a dumb switch and a standalone access point (some zyxel also running openwrt) for an extra ~120eur total but that’s a whole setup and it works quite well.
FWIW I bought an N100 mini pc with 2 nics for ~100eur and use it as an openwrt router. It’s so easy and simple IDK why more people don’t recommend it.
I literally just installed the beta ;_; nevermind I thought this was finamp, not findroid. Please disregard this comment :D
I literally set up encryption on a server with a usb drive a couple weekends ago, I did a writeup on my blog if you’re interested
I literally helped my brother boot into a vm from an actual windows install drive with virt manager, without even copying the disk into an image, just a couple of weeks ago. Some features might not work like 3d acceleration and such but the vm boots, you can login, access the desktop and go about whatever you need to do. AFAIK a VM emulates standard compliant hardware that windows should always be able to boot into, otherwise even just the installation iso would fail to boot.