Published May 2, 2026, 2:30 PM EDT Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, his interests include spending hours in long RPGs, yelling at his friends in co-op games, and practicing guitar. Over the last couple of years, I’ve installed Proxmox on PCs of all shapes and sizes, including enterprise-grade servers , dinosaur machines, single-board computers , and gaming laptops . After all, Proxmox’s lightweight nature lets me run this killer platform on anything with an x86 CPU, and since it supports Linux containers and KVM-based virtual machines, I can use my PVE-powered systems as hybrid project-building workstations and self-hosting hubs. But no matter what version I use, Proxmox’s default settings are far from ideal – to the point where I’d often modify them as soon as I’m done installing the virtualization platform on a new guinea pig device.…