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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...

Current Gear

Between here and back home in Lebanon, I run 2 Desktops (one of which is an HTPC back home), 2 Laptops, a Mini PC, a Steam Deck, and a Raspberry Pi. Details on each below.

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.

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...

Portable Workstation & More

Other Random Devices

A Steam Deck which used to be my retro gaming console, but repurposed as portable Workstation with XeroLinux installed on it. It's the perfect little compact on the go tool that just sits there quietly doing its thing.

0xA3F2 // CPU_LOAD: 12% // MEM: 4096MB // ARCH: x86_64 // NET: ETH0 // PKT: 0xFFD3 // KERNEL: 6.12.1 // UPTIME: 99.9% // DISK: /dev/nvme0 // IRQ: 0x0F // 0xA3F2 // CPU_LOAD: 12% // MEM: 4096MB // ARCH: x86_64 // NET: ETH0 // PKT: 0xFFD3 // KERNEL: 6.12.1 // UPTIME: 99.9% // DISK: /dev/nvme0 // IRQ: 0x0F // 0xA3F2 // CPU_LOAD: 12% // MEM: 4096MB // ARCH: x86_64 // NET: ETH0 // PKT: 0xFFD3 // KERNEL: 6.12.1 // UPTIME: 99.9% // DISK: /dev/nvme0 // IRQ: 0x0F // 0xA3F2 // CPU_LOAD: 12% // MEM: 4096MB // ARCH: x86_64 // NET: ETH0 // PKT: 0xFFD3 // KERNEL: 6.12.1 // UPTIME: 99.9% // DISK: /dev/nvme0 // IRQ: 0x0F //

And last but not least, 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 as an honorable mention, a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB that is gathering dust as with many of my other unused devices. Maybe one day will find a good use for it lol.

Lebanon

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

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.