How linux works is a great book! Halfway through it right now. I set up immich a while back and as far as I can tell, its almost identical to google photos, and unless you have like a terabyte of photos doesnt need a lot of proccesing power (it will take a while for its first scan, but after that it uses barely anything)

Definitely mint for “just works”, personally used it on loads of computers and haven’t encountered any issues

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Just finished high on life. Megabonk is great fun and sips power