It has been a little bit since my last post. I generally post when I am bored at work and the past 2 weeks were busy.

Today for a change I am curious about your hardware. Do have a laptop, desktop, both? One, 2, more? Why so many if you got more than 1? What hardware is it in it? Anything you would like to upgrade/change for your use case? Ever ran into any support issues with them? Any Steamdecks or funky hardware around?

  • MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I shall start: I have one too many PCs hanging around. My main desktop, my main laptop, my NAS, my old desktop and my old laptop. Desktop for every day use, laptop for travelling, NAS for data hoarding, old laptop because I still havent gotten around setting it up to give it to my mom and my old desktop is there if I need Windows but I can’t be bothered to boot out of Linux and it has some old game save files I still haven’t bothered moving for over for 4 years now…

    As for hardware, I will just mention my main desktop and laptop because they are the only ones I really use much and I don’t know the specs of the rest by memory.

    Desktop:

    i9 9900k

    RTX 3090

    64GB of RAM

    4TB of SSD storage

    Runs Manjaro, Arch and in case of horrible emergencies a locked down version of Windows 10 LTSC

    Just upgraded it 2 days ago (added 2TB of storage and retired the 1080ti I had before). Yes, it is overkill as hell but for good(?) reasons. When I have originally prewritten this post 2 weeks ago I was complaining I couldn’t find a new GPU for it but I finally found a decent used GPU last week.

    Laptop:

    i7 6th gen (don’t remember the exact model on the top of my head)

    GTX 960M

    16GB of RAM

    1TB SSD

    Runs Arch

    I bought this for cheap last year. I don’t know what the previous owner did with the screen (I forgot to ask) but there is something funny going on with it and I got no clue how to fix it :(

    0 issues with any of the hardware except the occasional nvidia driver pooping itself on update. Some of the peripherals could do with some dedicated software for it (wheel, webcam, mouse and so on), but it all works out of the box so I am alright with it. All in all as of right now I am incredibly happy with the setup and I have 0 updates planned for it till something decides to break.

    Very very controversial opinion: I will be dead before I buy something from AMD again. Nvidia and their drivers are faaaaar from perfect, but at least the worst I have ever had to do was to just reinstall drivers when they fail to update properly (its been a long time since the last time too), AMD drivers are an absolute pain in the ass from my experience.

    • CheshireSnake@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I finally found a decent used GPU last week

      Your idea of a decent gpu is a 3090. My idea of a decent gpu is a 1660ti. We are not the same. JK lol.

      May I ask why that powerful PC? Work?

      • MouseWithBeer@iusearchlinux.fyiOPEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Oh god, I worded that badly. I meant a decent option for purchase between the things I was looking at (something in the 3080-4090 range) because I just been finding either things that were way to far away to go look at them and test them before buying (since I was looking at used stuff), not very great brands or stupid prices. I am highly aware it is an absolutely insane GPU, not just “decent”.

        Each component got its completely different reason:

        The CPU is because I wanted to buy something that is going to last me a very very long time before I need to upgrade. We are now 4 years in and unless some miracle technological advancement happens it got at least another 4 years in it easy.

        GPU is because of streaming. The 1080ti was/is an absolutely beast of a GPU and its fine for just gaming as it still runs everything I throw at it. However when it comes to gaming + encoding at the same time there are some games nowadays it struggles with so hopefully that gets sorted now.

        RAM TL;DR: I had 32GB of RAM. RAM fails mem test. Friend just upgraded PC to DDR5 RAM so friend has 64GB of spare RAM. I have the RAM now. It is a stupid amount that I really don’t need.

        SSD: I give it 5 minutes before the new SSD is full like the other 2. But also I like to have each OS on its own drive (mainly because I don’t trust Windows anywhere near my Linux install).

        Funny you mention work, because at work I got the absolute opposite of my home computer - jankey legitimately half broken old little thinkpad lol.