My Gear
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Some people call me an Arch & KDE Plasma shill, and I don't see the problem with that. I use what works for me, and Arch has been great. Sure, there are issues, but none have been deal-breakers for my use case. I've tried other distros, but Arch is the one I can easily adapt to and fix when problems arise.
Just wanted to cover these facts before moving on with the Hardware & Software I use...
The Hardware
I do own many, 3 Desktops, 2 Laptops and a Mini PC. Main, NAS, Home-Lab & HTPC. Laptops are unimportant just runs my shop and testing various Distros.
The Beast — Main Rig
StationXero
Main rig, the one I do all my Development, Gaming and other things on. It has an RX 7800XT and a Ryzen 9 5950X with a whopping 32GB DDR4@3200Mt/s RAM. I think this machine still has a few years of reliable service left in it in this economy.
Mini Workstation
XeroMini
This is my awesome Mini PC. It has 32GB RAM after upgrade, with a Ryzen 5 7530U. That thing is not showing any signs of slowing down. It's a great little machine. It is my portable XeroLinux project system, where I store all my files and I use it when I travel to work on the project.
NAS/Storage
XeroNAS
My NAS PC, it stores all my personal data as well as my Linux ISOs & GOG game installers. It has 8GB RAM with a Ryzen 5 3600X and an old GT710 GPU. Running OpenMediaVault for managing all the storage. It ain't much but it works.
Media Server
The HTPC
Has a Core-i7 6800K, with a GTX 1080 GPU, and 16GB RAM. Being my HTPC, it has 14 Drives of various sizes totalling ~68TB of storage. The only app installed on that thing is Jellyfin as a Flatpak. It's currently running XeroLinux
Laptop
Lenovo Thinkpad T14 Gen 1
Used in the office, with 1Tb nVme, a Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U, 16Gb RAM and an iGPU. I mainly use this thing for testing Cosmic Epoch. I love this D.E behind KDE, I think the devs are on to something great. It will never see Windows mark my words. It's the most Linux friendly laptop on the market today...
Other systems
I also have the awesome SteamDeck. It used to be my retro gaming console, but it has since been repurposed as my Homelab with XeroLinux installed on it, paired with an external 1TB nVMe SSD for extra storage. It's the perfect little compact server that just sits there quietly doing its thing. I absolutely love it !
An old-ass Dell-XPS, 13' Capacitive 4K Touch screen, with an Intel Core i7 7600 and 16GB RAM. That thing sits around, maybe try a few Distros on it every now and then.
And finally I have An old MacBook Pro from 2016, yeah the one with the faulty butterfly keyboard n thouchbar. I barely use that thing relegated to a shelf somewhere.
Thanks for reading
That's it folks. Now you have a better idea of what equipment I use on a daily basis to bring you everything I do. I did not list all the softwares I use coz it's a long list that varies a lot. Thanks for reading.