hello friends

Post any servers / desktops you have (Distros also), I use it far more on servers than desktop but I've been trying to get into Linux desktop

I downloaded Linux mint on my surface pro 3. It runs pretty well but really I have no reason to use it other than fooling around.

What do you use it for?

damnit lmao, i was thinking of doing this.

In, it's been my primary desktop environment for over a year now

Debian sid juss comfy

xfce>>>

I'm quite interested in learning about computers, using linux forces me to do that.

moving away from guis and relying more on the cli is wonderful.

I use Centos 7 (RHEL) for work

if I could play all of the games I have on Windows on Linux, I would desert Windows forever and never go back to that piece of s*** operating system

Linux just feels better imo. scripting and doing most things from the command line helped me learn way more about my OS then clicking on GUIs

I use fedora on my desktop, gentoo on older macbook

Thats a great idea, have a 2015 mac air running mac osx which i like to have on the side,

But maybe ill finally just do a first gentoo install on this if i get a new one eventually

I run Kali mostly, but WSL seems fun too.

lowkey want to build a linux htpc next year

what were you trying to do with it

I use Fedora, Ubuntu and Manjaro on desktop these days

I use FreeBSD, TrueNAS, Suse, Ubuntu, Cent OS, Unraid and Fedora on Server

I've been messing with building a router/firewall with FreeBSD lately

why so many desktops

I use Ubuntu for DaVinci Resolve, Chia Farmers, Gaming and Blender

I was testing Fedora for gaming and IT work but I've been using Manjaro for that for a while now

planning on setting up a mini-itx build for home theater purposes (media center & console emulation up to 6th gen, maybe even 7th gen tbh depending on what hardware i can get my hands on) and to double as a small file server/seedbox. i have a few drives lying around that won't fit in my main pc anymore and still want to put them to good use

I love AMD chips but for media servers Quick Sync is just too powerful

I use an 8th Gen i3 since it had the best Quick Sync performance at the time for the cheapest price, yeah you don't need the latest stuff for servers you can kinda just throw together what spare stuff you got with a few new parts

sounds good I use a FreeBSD jail for my seed box and then Docker for Sonarr and all that stuff

yeah Mini-ITX is really clean for putting next to your tv for console emulation

been thinking about adding 10gbe to one of my servers and putting it in a tiny ITX case for Mac OS storage / Games

it's funny you mention that regarding quick sync i was looking to grab an amd cpu for a vega APU build. kinda saddened to see VCE still falls short of quicksync tho

yeah it's definitely a bummer their encoders are trash especially for h264

wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64

Linux servers are goat.

Servers running Windows always a hassle.

so much knowledge

xcfe is very light weight but I feel like it's kinda dated with the look

I really like Gnome on my high performance machines and Mate on lower performance setups

xcfe was the first thing I ever tried after using Gnome forever