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 ☭
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    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
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      what do use all the servers for?

      • Arsen6331 ☭
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        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
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          wow, that’s all pretty amazing to me, especially writing a metasearch engine.

  • @FuckBigTech347
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    My main machine is a circa 2014 Lenovo ThinkStation S30 which has an Intel Xeon E5-1650v2. 16 GB DDR3 RAM. I have 2 graphics cards in this thing; 1x Quadro K4000 and 1x Radeon RX 560

    I also have a custom built Server that has a Xeon E3-1271v3 and 32 GB of DDR3 RAM. It has 4 hard drives in total which I combined in a BTRFS RAID1 pool.

    Another Server I have is a Dell R410 with an even older Xeon (I don’t remember which one right now, but it has 6 cores), 16 GB DDR3 ECC RAM, 1 SAS RAID Controller and 4x 10kRPM hard drives.

    Then I also have an ARM based Router that I flashed with OpenWRT, a Pinebook Pro and a ~10 year old Toshiba Satellite C850D which I use on the go.

    Most of this stuff is old by current standards so I happened to get it as used from people who wanted to get rid of it or refurbished for cheap.

  • @sudojonz
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    A couple of older Chromebooks that are able to run alternate firmware (shoutout to mrchromebox) and I have them running an EOL GalliumOS3.1 that I’m about to upgrade to something current. Will probably go with either Linux Mint XFCE or MXLinux to keep it light enough as a travelbook.

    I mainly use a Clevo Laptop with an i7-7700 and it has a GTX 1060 for some good-ish gaming when I get around to it. This one running Linux Mint 20. It gets hot as hell during most games though even with medium graphics settings an external cooling mat.

  • lemmygrabber
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    work laptop is a thinkpad e14. running void linux on it.

    personal laptop is a lenovo legion 5. running void linux and windows on it.

    • @CjkOvPDwQw
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      Glibc or musl ?

      I am tempted to use musl but the fact that void isn’t using the last release because it would require an entire rebuild of all packages is making me think twice

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        glibc. i am not sure what their plan with musl is but i wish they just got this situation over with.

    • @whoamiOP
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      how do you find void? I’m interested in it, especially since one of the developers was involved in NetBSD (iirc). I like the idea of it, but I never get around to trying it out. xbps seems cool

      • lemmygrabber
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        It’s pretty good. Most of the packages I use are up to date and if they are not I can help by contributing to the void-packages repository.

        Downside is that it is difficult to find help for it. The only three official channels are IRC, github and reddit so they are heavily reliant on two garbage proprietary service.

        I use it because I know how to use it because I have been using it for many years. Don’t have any special attachment to it.

  • @DerPapa69@lemmy.ml
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    Just a home-built gaming PC that was kind of decent 7 years ago. On my work laptop I’m sadly forced to use Windows, but I make heavy use of WSL at least

  • @holdengreen
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    Lenovo Y700 with i7-6700HQ and GTX 960M. Got that in 2016 and has served me will running mostly Arch since.

    In less than a month I should have a dual Xeon E5-2650 v4 system set up and that should be my primary machine.

    Got a couple of extra laptops and mini pcs and a couple of Orange Pis somewhere around here.

    Might try to buy the legion laptop off my dad since he’s not using it.

  • @Stalins_Spoon
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    Vostro V13 with MX Linux and a Dell Latitude E6400 running Lubuntu

  • @knfrmity
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    I’ve got a couple machines but nothing unusual.

    Intel i3 based NAS/Media Server and four Pis of varying flavour. I was trying to get my gaming PC over to Linux but I can’t get games to initialize at the moment. Have also thought about replacing my Miktrotik router’s RouterOS with OpenWRT/DD-WRT but it might be too complex for what I want to do.

  • @DoghouseCharlie
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    I got a really old Dell Mini and I have Lubuntu 32bit on there. I use it for when I want to watch MST3K before bed.

    • @whoamiOP
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      oh mst3k, that’s something I haven’t thought of in a long time!

  • @CommunistWolf
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    Everything :D. Debian isn’t called the universal OS for nothing.

    The laptops are pretty standard-issue, although I’m getting a “Starbook” which will buck the intel trend when it finally ships. The “Pinebook Pro” is ARM, but the build quality is poor enough that I haven’t used it for ages. Pre-bullseye it needed Manjaro, but things have settled down again.

    I also have a Pinephone that runs the “Mobian” respin of Debian, and an APU2 by pc-engines that handles my online presence. It’s so nice that the same commands, the same configuration, the same interface, works everywhere.

    • @whoamiOP
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      I’m waiting on a starbook…it’s been months and still not here :(

  • @hellfire103@lemmy.ml
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    I have a few machines that I have accumulated:

    • HP 17-ca0003na with Arch Linux. My daily driver.
    • Lenovo ThinkPad T400 with Arch Linux. My power user laptop.
    • Acer Aspire from 2009 with Lubuntu. My expendable Ubuntu machine.
    • Core 2 Duo Macbook due to dual-boot Devuan GNU+Linux or OpenBSD alongside Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. My indispensable Macintosh.
  • @Fenix
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    I5 10400f, RX 550, 16GB Ram and running Fedora

  • erpicht
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    12 years ago

    I most recently kicked Windows 10 off a Surface Pro 3! Linux Mint works great with it, even supporting the touchscreen and keyboard attachment out of the box.

    • @whoamiOP
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      22 years ago

      that’s cool that everything works out of the box on a machine like that

      • erpicht
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        I was pleasantly surprised. From the few memory sticks I tried, only Linux Mint and 9front booted, installed, and re-booted without a hitch. It might be fun to try and get the wifi and typecover working with 9front, if I can manage it.

        • @whoamiOP
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          22 years ago

          It’s nuts that 9front is one of the os’s that works on it lol. Have you used 9front a lot?

          • erpicht
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            It did require an external keyboard and doesn’t do wifi (yet) but I was pleased to see it install so easily. I’m am quite new to 9front and still learning my way around the OS, but plan to use it more as I figure stuff out, especially shell scripting :)