Query about your linux daily drivers?

So i have my main system, i have been running NixOS on for over a year. It has been a pleasure to daily drive. And ive recently been playing with gentoo and funtoo. And althought alot of information, which is somewhat overwhelming but is slowly growing on me and making me appreatate linux as a whole. So i was wondring what other software users run, and what hardware they run it on. Ive also been looking into replacing my lenovo W540 because the Nvidia K110m is royal pain and kills my battery life. Ive been looking at lenovos t480, t480s t440p. And cant decide, i really would like at least 4 cores, good linux support and long battery life aswell as repairablility. The laptop is going to mostly be a web browsing machine aswell as trying out gentoo and new distros. If you have any suggestions on a laptop id very be much grateful.

Cheers,

danielfgom,
@danielfgom@lemmy.world avatar

Linux Mint Debian Edition is what I’m using on my Mac Mini. Before that it was the Ubuntu Linux Mint.

I have a 2015 MacBook Pro they was running opensuse Leap but it won’t boot or charge now. I need to take it to an Apple repair shop for troubleshooting.

If I were looking for a new laptop I’d look at some of the recent ThinkPad’s like the X1. Or I’d like for a good deal on a new AMD Ryzen 5 or 7 equipped laptop .

But if you’re just going to watch YouTube, you could easily get a Celeron based 13 inch laptop from the past 2 years and is should work fine for that.

maryjayjay, (edited )

My daily driver is a 3600 ARM core kubernetes cluster in Oracle cloud running on Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel.

On my desk I have an M2 Mac, lol!

Steamymoomilk,

I started to read and was like “is this guy like an arm developer or somthing?”

maryjayjay,

Actually, before this I was a Kernel developer at Qualcomm, so… Yes

Steamymoomilk,

Yo thats super cool!

maryjayjay,

It was fun and interesting and challenging. 🌝 My team was amazing, my leadership was amazing, I wish the company hadn’t gone to shit.

timkenhan,

I’m currently using LMDE on Thinkpad W530 for work. Pretty much stationary, with second monitor and all. I got a more mobile X230 with 9 cell battery (same OS) for when I need to be on the move.

That i7 on the W540 would be very useful if you want to have good compilation time for your system.

Discover5164, (edited )

i have been on manjaro kde for a couple years, the hardware changed during the years. right now i’m on a 2700x with a 3060 and 32gb of ram.

i’m planning to wipe it for pure arch / nix / silverblue kde (sorry i don’t remember the name)

not because is unstable or anything, i just want to do some cleanup and maybe change my workflow a bit

my current workflow is kde + bismuth for tiling, almost everything controlled by the extra buttons on the mouse

for a more detailed description: lemm.ee/comment/6503411

i’m very open to suggestions!

ulu_mulu,

I use Linux MX on my gaming desktop and LMDE on my laptop. I also have an encrypted LMDE VM that I use for some working stuff, since I have to use Windows on my company PC (but we’re allowed to have Virtualbox on it).

The desktop is pretty new, I built it a month ago after almost 10 years, it’s i9 and rtx 4070. The laptop is several years old (HP spectre), but since the previous one gave me so many headaches with nvidia optimus, I decided to go full Intel, I’m happy I did because I had no problems with it whatsoever, Intel only on laptops for me going on.

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