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What's everyone's daily driver device? - x0ba - 08-08-2023
Could be anything, from a laptop, to a desktop, to a tablet. I personally daily drive a MacBook Air M1.
RE: What's everyone's daily driver device? - mcotocel - 09-08-2023
I daily drive a Lenovo X1 Carbon Gen 8 with NixOS + Hyprland running on it. I love how light it is
RE: What's everyone's daily driver device? - movq - 09-08-2023
Well, I still use the same tower PC I bought in 2013. Quoting the specs from my gopher hole:
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:: Workstation / "pinguin" (2013)
OS: Arch Linux x86_64
CPU -- Intel Core i7-3770, 4x 3.40 GHz
RAM -- 32 GiB DDR3
GFX -- Integrated Intel HD 4000, 1 GiB Shared Memory
DSP -- Dell S2421H, 24", 1920x1080, matte
HDD -- Samsung SSD 870 QVO, 1 TB, SATA
-- Hitachi Travelstar 5K1000, 1 TB, SATA
-- Seagate ST4000LM024, 4 TB, SATA
DVD -- LG GH24NS 24x DVD-RAM
LAN -- Realtek RTL8111/8168 Gigabit (rev 07)
MoBo -- Asrock Z77 Pro4
Case -- CoolerMaster Silencio 55032 GB of RAM was a lot back then and it has paid off. I expect to use this machine for many more years.
RE: What's everyone's daily driver device? - wolf - 09-08-2023
At home I still use the good and old Thinkpad X220 ( that i5 , 16GB RAM , ~= 1TB SSB ) with a good FreeBSD ( I need a Windows virtual machine, so vmm won't fit yet :( ). At work the company lent me a Thinkpad T14 ( newest i5, 16GB RAM, ~=500GB NVMe ). Windows machine, I cannot change ... I'm running my main system ( OpenBSD ) inside virtualbox ( feels like my life is a lie ... ).
RE: What's everyone's daily driver device? - ckester - 09-08-2023
I have an old Thinkpad T410 I use occasionally, but my everyday machine is an old (but still newer than the laptop) tower running KDE on MX Linux:
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System:
Kernel: 6.4.8-1-liquorix-amd64
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.20.5
Distro: MX-21.3_KDE_x64 Wildflower October 20 2021
base: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)
Machine:
Dell product: OptiPlex 7040
date: 01/26/2016
CPU:
Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-6500 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Skylake-S family: 6I keep thinking I should go back to one of the BSD's. At my age inertia is hard to overcome.
I'm using KDE because (1) I'm avoiding glib, gtk, and gnome wherever possible; and (2) I've been brushing up my C++ and Qt skills.
I do a lot of work in a terminal emulator (st).
RE: What's everyone's daily driver device? - venam - 10-08-2023
I've also been on the same machine for quite a while, and it serves me well. An Acer Aspire V5-551 A8, 6GB ram.
(09-08-2023, 12:59 PM)movq Wrote: 32 GB of RAM was a lot backI still think it's quite a lot!
RE: What's everyone's daily driver device? - movq - 10-08-2023
(10-08-2023, 04:23 AM)venam Wrote: I still think it's quite a lot!Yeah, me too. Okay, let's say: "Machines with that amount of memory are more common these days." :-)
RE: What's everyone's daily driver device? - santafe - 12-09-2023
A T480 running OBSD, but i'd like to build a "mobile brain extension" (some calls it as a UMPC or cyberdeck) powered by a pi zero like small SBC + small but hires glass serial terminal + a small keyboard + an audio output jack (possibly via USB sound card) + and wlan for connectivity. I have already bought this SBC: https://shop.geniatech.com/product/xpi-3566-zero/ now waiting for delivery.
RE: What's everyone's daily driver device? - thedaemon - 12-06-2025
Copied the data from my website below. I use a custom desktop that I plan on using for many years to come.
FreeBSD - 14.3
Ryzen 2700X - AMD
ASRock X570 Phantom Gaming 4
64GB RAM
Dual 1TB NVME
Dual 2TB Spinning Disce
Dual 8TB Spinning Rust
AMD Radeon 6750XT
Lian-Li cube case
27" 180Hz
SteelSeries Prime Gaming Mouse
Vortex Tab 90M
Wacom One / Wacom Bamboo touch
Steam Controller
Sega Genesis 6 button Controller
RE: What's everyone's daily driver device? - mishima - 06-07-2025
I've been working remote companies realized it was viable during lockdown; as a result, I've ditched my laptop.
Here are my desktop specs:
Gentoo Linux
Intel i7-600k (4) @ 4.20GHz
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070 (Got this for free from a buddy)
32 GB DDR4 RAM
It's coming up on a decade since I originally built my machine, still runs great!
RE: What's everyone's daily driver device? - Evolution - 16-07-2025
Desktop (Gaming, 3D modeling):
Windows 10
Ryzen 7 3700X
XFX 6900XT Merc
32GB DDR4 3200
990 Pro 2TB NVME + 2TB HDD
On the go my laptop which is a Lenovo Thinkpad P72 with:
EndeavorOS
Intel Xeon E-2176M
Nvidia Quadro P4200
32GB DDR4 2400
1TB HDD
The laptop is in dire need of upgrades but I don't consider it worth it as I'm still hunting for a P72 with the top configuration at a reasonable price (4k screen, E-2186M, P5200) so for now it gets to be my Linux test bed and impromptu server.
Also a steamdeck LCD with a 1TB M.2 slapped in it, still need hall effect joysticks installed but my carpel tunnel is too bad to use it.
RE: What's everyone's daily driver device? - strang3quark - 18-07-2025
Personal computers:
- Framework Laptop 13, Arch Linux, Ryzen 7 7840U, 64GB RAM, 2TB NVME.
- Thinkpad X230, i5-3380M, 512GB SSD (do not use it much nowadays)
Work computer:
- Apple Macbook Pro M1 Pro, 512GB storage, 32GB RAM, I don't like it, but I have no other choice...