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I have a Microsoft Surface 7 running NixOS. Everything works, even touch/pen
@mjpc13 @cyclohexane that’s impressive. Would mean the laptops should also be supported ? Was it hard to do?
It was not too hard if you are already familiar with Nix. The features supported (and the custom Linux kernel) can be found in surface-linux. For NixOS I used the nix-hardware flake to simplify things.
The worst part was the compilation of the Linux kernel, that took hours on the surface. Eventually, I used the remote nix build feature to compile on a more capable computer.
@mjpc13 this would be an amazing blog if you wrote it up. Front page HN content right here. Very cool stuff. Thank you for sharing.
Maybe I'll write something in the future
Fedora Hyprland, with Floorp and Emacs. Not very unusual, especially when compared to what people are saying here. Umm... floating Waybar and EWW as a conky replacement? A customised Neofetch?
Oh, I got it! I'm using my own handcrafted colourscheme! It's not perfect but it looks very good and is quite nice and blue! And I use Bemenu for a logout menu in a homebrew script.
I'm getting into using Syncthing to synchronise my Notes directory between my devices, which I use on my phone to access my orgmode notes and todo items via an app called Orgzly.
I use a Launcher called Olauncher on my phone which runs LineageOS rooted with KernelSU (that's quite unusual I guess).
My backup solution is 2 USB sticks and Syncthing.
I run the teams-for-linux flatpak for education-related purposes.
Even with all that I still feel like the most Plain Jane user when I'm seeing people using servers and niche distros, even though I'm sure combining it all together will leave us with only 1 user in the world that does things in that exact way: me.
Just a reboot. There's an EFI menu listing all the available images - I keep a couple of old ones around to roll back to in case of problems - and I just select the one I want.
I have a ZFS Ubuntu deaktop install que on an all amd PC and use snap. Given that everyone else has something completely extravagant and hate snaps, I'd say my standard build is unusual.
i have a gentoo system with a custom s6-rc service tree that fully replaces openrc and boots via s6-linux-init.
instead of a display manager i have tinydm (from postmarketos) and autologin setup. since i use full-disk encryption and suspend-to-disk i find that i don't need the extra login step into my user session.
i have a bunch of bemenu-based helpers for wifi, bluetooth, vpn, audio, passwords, mounting drives, etc.
i don't have polkit or sudo installed. i use doas.
Do you have those bemenu helpers in a repo somewhere? I've been really getting into bemenu scripting recently and I'm really enjoying the results (case in point: when I do a logout/shutdown via my bemenu logout script I feel like an absolute boss).
Irubn Bluefin which is a downstream of Fedora built to be more Dev focused and "cloud native". Desktops apps are flatpak first, my terminal just opens distrobox containers, system CLI tools I get from nixpkgs, services i run on a k3s service on it, and I have use vscodiunm with gitpods to support devcontainers hosted on the k3s cluster. I sometimes pxeboot a raspberry pi or another laptop or a server from my openwrt router to add compute to the cluster if I need it.
Been tinkering with, well, Tinkerbell to do the pxe booting from the k3s cluster but I may go back to Metal3 so I can just used the servers BMCs and do the extra work to config the pxe boot from there.
I really want to get it too full distributed desktop OS at some point, either using moonlight or some real systems work with RDMAoCE and tricking the processes into thinking they are on the same system. That one feel very RnD though.
My username has a space and a newline in it.
Random things break at random times.
a) why? b) what does your shell prompt look like?
Libreboot Gaming Desktop
- Dell OptiPlex 9020 MT Motherboard
- i7 4790K
- 32GB DDR3 1600Mhz RAM
- 9TB (1TB M.2 NVME, 2x4TB Hard drives) RAID 0 with LUKS and LVM (/boot stored on SD card)
- NVIDIA 2080 SUPER 8GB VRAM
- NZXT S340 Elite Case
- EVGA 700W BR
- Kicksecure GNU/Linux
Libreboot Server
- Dell Precision T1650
- Xeon E3 1275 V2
- 32GB DDR3L 1600Mhz RAM (ECC)
- 8TB (2x4TB Hard drives) RAID 1 with LUKS and LVM (/boot stored on SD card)
- AMD RX580 8GB VRAM
- Proxmox VE / Learning to use YunoHost inside VM
Libreboot Laptop
- Lenovo Thinkpad T440P
- i7 4810MQ (Recommend i7 4700MQ for better battery life)
- 16GB DDR3 1600Mhz RAM
- 1TB SSD (/boot encrypted with Argon2)
- 100% Free BIOS (LibreMRC), Intel Management Engine is still present but neutered
- Intel AC 7260 (Can run without blobs when running Linux-libre kernel)
- AR9271 USB for WiFi (100% FOSS)
- Kicksecure GNU/Linux with Linux-libre kernel (Removed all non-free-firmware with vrms)
GrapheneOS Phone (100% FOSS in the OS layer)
- Cheogram / JMP.chat for Calling / Texting
- Mint Mobile for Service (Cash)
- Ported number into JMP.chat
- F-Droid
LibreCMC Routers (100% Free Firmware/Software)
- ThinkPenguin R1400 Ethernet (1Gbps)
- ThinkPenguin R1300 WiFi Router (100Mbs)
- Running under MullvadVPN (Paid in XMR)
OpenWRT Network Switch
- D-Link DGS-1210-28MP
- VLAN Support
Yeah that's pretty much my setup, don't know if it's really strange or not lol
How does it game for you so far?!
It can play all my games at 1440p and ultra settings (RDR2, GTA V, etc.) I've never had a time where I've wanted to upgrade from it. I built most of this computer for about $450-$500, all used parts I got off eBay plus some other parts that I pulled from my other computer
The Optiplex gaming setup is quite bizzare. Isn’t that CPU a bit of a bottleneck for this relatively powerful GPU?
Btw I used to own the same Thinkpad but it was supplied with a dedicated NVIDIA GeForce 6xx-something, but never tried Libreboot on it. Given that I sold it in 2020, not sure if libreboot was even doable on it back then.
A bit, it's actually not too bad. Rarely any micro stuttering on ultra settings in RDR2, I am actually planning on buying the AMD 7900XTX graphics card to put in this machine. I want to run local LLMs on it, I'm not too much of a gamer as I used to be. Anyways, this thing rocks! I love it. Eventually, I'll plan on buying a MSI Z690-A DDR5 motherboard and install Dasharo firmware onto it.
It's strange!
Not sure if this counts, but on my install of nobara whenever I hover over an icon in the home bar it relocates to the bottom left corner of the screen, leaving an empty space. I can still interact with apps by clicking on the empty space where the icon used to be so it doesn't brick my home bar, it's just really annoying.
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