Thanks, I will give it a try. By the way, an external storage isn't a bad idea. How could I not think about it before?

That would definitely solve my problem lol

Thank you. I added some hardware details to the original post.

My doubt with the heatsink is if it will be enough for a large difference, since the internal airflow is very poor, but it's probably worth a try nonetheless. Thanks

The new edition, known as TUXEDO OS “Continuous Debian,” replaces the distribution’s traditional Ubuntu foundation with Debian Testing. The change denotes a significant shift for TUXEDO OS, which is developed by German Linux hardware manufacturer TUXEDO Computers.

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Unlike Debian itself, which periodically promotes its Testing branch to Stable, TUXEDO OS will remain permanently based on Debian Testing.

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https://www.debian.org/security/faq#testing currently says:

Q: How is security handled for testing?

A: Security for testing benefits from the security efforts of the entire project for unstable. However, there is a minimum two-day migration delay, and sometimes security fixes can be held up by transitions. The Security Team helps to move along those transitions holding back important security uploads, but this is not always possible and delays may occur. Especially in the months after a new stable release, when many new versions are uploaded to unstable, security fixes for testing may lag behind. If you want to have a secure (and stable) server you are strongly encouraged to stay with stable.

I wonder if TUXEDO Computers plans to be shipping security updates themselves faster than Debian testing does?

Slap a thermal pad and a heatsink on that NVME and you should be fine, provided the rest of the case isn't overheating.

try to play normal movie/audio from that exact terminal session

Shouldn't really matter wherefrom I am logged in, because the question is about mpv over ssh, but yes. The image is me being logged in to my laptop with ssh from my phone, then running mpv as an experiment. Normally I run mpv directly/physically on the laptop.

Being able to run it out of the box and optimized already. Nothing wrong with Archlinux, but if one does not want to go deep into the material, then using a distribution based on it makes sense.

You mean instead of logging in remotely with ssh and then running mpv (which is what I was doing in the image above). I'll try that tomorrow! 😊

Not sure I get what you're trying to do - is the screenshot from your phone? you logged into your laptop from your phone?

I also didn't have faith when it launched. But well done, they have proven themselves and the system they created.

That is not it. It throws no errors whatsoever if I run mpv directly from the host. I believe it to be a permissions related matter and that mpv somehow knows how to work around video but not audio. Tomorrow I'll try to add my user to the pipewire and audio groups and see what that does.

Try running the command from your own host system using ssh -c

In WSL?

CachyOS isn't specifically gamer focused, its performance focused. That's why not everything is focused on gaming like Bazzite is. Off course performance is beneficial for gaming. They have some additional gaming specific optimizations you can enable or add, but the entire operating system is not focused for gaming only as their primary focus. If you want gaming on CachyOS, then have a look at https://wiki.cachyos.org/configuration/gaming/ .

What is going to be the difference with, lets say Neptune OS?

How are bazzite or nobara not open?

You can see from the errors that mpv is unable to find your sound card so it won't play any sound not just movies played over ssh

like others have asked, what case/mobo/SSD brand?

is the SSD on the front side or back side of the mobo?

sometimes what I do if the SSD is on the backside (and theres no mobo tray cutout), is to get a nice thick 10mm+ thermal pad and have it transfer heat to the motherboard tray.

if you can't get airflow or fans to where the SSD is, your best bet is to try to transfer it somewhere else (aka case).

you can actually get copper heatpipe assemblies of different sizes/lengths/angles to help transfer the heat

You can do it but using a junk second computer with no hard drive, a slow CPU and little memory.

This is the thin-client concept and it has been in use going all the way back to mainframes. It lost popularity when personal computers- PCs- got cheap.

Works like this:

The thin client BIOS is set to boot over the network. It locates your desktop, downloads a small OS and displays a login, to your remote desktop.

From there, it’s passing through the keyboard and mouse input to remote server and displaying the output. The real CPU work is all handled by the server.

The whole Edubuntu distro was built around this design. You could have one decent computer in a school computer lap and 20 crappy thin clients and everything would feel pretty snappy and work pretty well. Cheap and low maintenance to admin with only one hard drive / distro to maintain!

Can't wait! I'm going to switch off of Mint for this

I was all in on Antergos until it died as a project. CachyOS really fills that void for me along with having a bunch of benefits like performance-tuned compilations

isn't the whole case hot? Usually motherboard has sensors for monitoring the case temperature and control case fans. If the whole environment is above 45°C it makes everything hotter.

If you can check that an easy test would be to disable you CPU boost. I always do this anyway as boosting is a temporary way for a CPU to squeeze some extra performance at a huge energy/temperature cost. On my stress test this "only" get 10-15% more performance but without boost the CPU temperature never get above 50°C.

Because the CPU is not warming the case anyone everything is cooler, how much I don't know though. Hopefully this could also reduce I/O on the SSD in general too but a cooler case is definitely better for every component.

The way to disable boosting depends on the CPU model as a starting point you can check https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CPU_frequency_scaling#Configuring_frequency_boosting.

Which case is it? Which nvme is it?