Just like the thread about distro’s I thought we could share what hardware we use/own? Would be neat to see everyone’s set ups, maybe there’s some unusual hardware out there.

I have two older thinkpad’s (t420/t430s), a gateway laptop (yes that’s a thing). Somewhere around here I have a raspberry pi 4 2gb model, and some random no name minipc that I deeply regreat buying lol. All running some combination of debia/suse/freebsd/openbsd

  • Arsen6331 ☭
    6•2 years ago

    My laptop is a Dell XPS 13 9310 running Arch. I chose it because it works very well with Linux and I was able to get it for a very good price.

    My desktop is built by me. It has a Ryzen 9 3950X (16 cores, 32 threads), 16GB of RAM, an RTX 2080, and a PCIe 4 NVMe SSD. It also runs Arch. This one is very useful for compiling big projects or doing machine learning.

    I also have 12 servers, 11 of which are ARM SBCs: 9 Raspberry Pi 4s, a Pine H64, and a RockPro64. The other machine is a 2012 Core i7 Mac Mini upgraded with a SATA SSD, which was the first computer I owned, I just used my parents’ laptop before that. They all run Debian (including the Mac Mini), and serve all kinds of things from Gitea to Matrix Dendrite.

    I have preordered a 16GB ROCK5 Model B, which has the new RK3588, the most powerful ARM CPU ever released by Rockchip. This thing should be at least equivalent to a modern mid-range smartphone, which will be very nice. I hope to use it for self-hosted continuous integration and possibly a VM or two if I can get them running on it.

    My phone also runs Linux. It is a PinePhone Pro, which I use as my daily driver, and have no other phone except the original PinePhone. My PinePhone, like my other daily drivers, runs Arch. It works very well with my PineTime, for which I develop ITD.

    tl;dr I exclusively run Linux and thus have tons and tons of Linux devices, from laptops to servers to phones.

    • @whoamiOP
      4•2 years ago

      what do use all the servers for?

      • Arsen6331 ☭
        5•2 years ago

        I self-host stuff as an alternative to big tech services. Matrix instead of Discord, Nextcloud instead of Google Drive, OnlyOffice instead of Google Docs, Gitea instead of Github, HomeAssistant instead of HomeKit/Smarthings, A metasearch engine I wrote instead of Google, Jellyfin for streaming music, Invidious YouTube client, WireGuard VPN, and probably a bunch of stuff I can’t remember right now.

        • @whoamiOP
          2•2 years ago

          wow, that’s all pretty amazing to me, especially writing a metasearch engine.