BartyDeCanter

It runs just fine on any of the Intel era machines. If you can get it for a good price, that would be a fantastic Linux system.

If you don’t want the M1 anymore, I’ve been wanting to give Asahi a try…

Ha! I recently went through a similar process, trying to get some hardware working for a different project that would close some 15+ year old bugs. AI helped me find it, getting sidetracked by several other small bugs in the same few files along the way.

I then wrote the actual fixes myself as a series of very small PRs. They’re all just a handful of lines each, enabling certain hardware flags, properly bounds checking loops, getting a timer initialization corrected, etc. They are all the sort of thing that once you see where they are, the fix is extremely obvious.

In the meantime, the project has adopted a very strict no AI assistance at all policy after some internal debate that almost tore the project apart.

So now I’m sitting on almost a dozen fixes for longstanding problems and have no idea if I should lie and say yes, I found these entirely by myself, or tell the truth, probably get kicked out of the project, and see how much of a shit storm they cause.

Oh! The algebraic methods will be nice at work.

It you really care, throw this on a usb stick and sleep well. It replaces to old dban system, which has gone commercial. https://github.com/PartialVolume/shredos.x86_64

That would be nice!

Check out Warhorn and see if there are any Pathfinder Society games in your area. Or start one!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=urcL86UpqZc

For a status bar, you can use tmux. Take a look at things like Oh-my-tmux, TPM, and more at https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tmux

Here’s the basic tests to run, one of them will show you what the problem is

• https://memtest.org/
• sysbench memory
• sysbench cpu
• stress-ng
• gpu-burn

This article will give you the details on how to use most of them: https://www.fosslinux.com/42630/best-cpu-stress-test-performance-benchmark-linux-tools.html

Be to do them in that order, you don’t want memory issues to show up looking like cpu issues, or cpu issues to look like gpu issues.

If you’re specifically looking for OpenRC, I’d go with either Devuan or Gentoo, probably Devuan as I’m a Debian-by-default sort of person.

Debian on my severs and workstation. My laptop is also Debian, though I have a Haiku partition that has been a lot of fun to play around with. It’s way, way better than the last time I tried it.

A long time ago I had one with a mini trackball which I vastly prefer, but they dont make those anymore.

When I was looking at getting a nice laptop instead of my current high end desktop and cheap old laptop setup, I really considered a Framework. But honestly, Thinkpads are cheaper and just as repairable. Yeah, they don’t have the slide out port things, but they just have a lot of ports built in.

Nice, but it wasn’t a viewmaster. Similar idea, but it was an actual computer of some sort.

Related question for old data media enjoyers: I have extremely vague memories of a computer I used as a kid that had a punchcard like system where the holes had colored cellophane or something in them, presumably to add a few more bits of data per hole. I think the cards were probably some sort of plastic or maybe laminated paper? Has anyone heard of something like this?

For Linux, stress-ng is extremely comprehensive, covering CPU, RAM and drives in a wide variety of ways.

gpu-burn will take care of your GPU needs.

Last time I tried using my Xbox controller, I found that it was very unstable using Bluetooth or a USB-C to A cable, but just fine with USB-C all the way. 🤷

I use two tools for this:

1. https://www.chezmoi.io/ for all my various dotfiles
2. A bash script I’ve put together over the years that has a list of all the basics that I want and calls whatever the right installer is for them: apt, cargo, brew, or whatever. It has targets for a local workstation, a remote headless server, and MacOS. Then at then the end it runs chezmoi.

Now, my use case is less “constant fresh install” and more “keep my environment the same across various devices”, as I mostly run Debian Stable and don’t feel the need to constantly tweak things.

This is it exactly. For a typical new user the things that make them bounce are, in order:

1. The difficulty of writing a bootable USB stick and partitioning their drive for installation.
2. Hardware support, mouse/keyboard, video, wifi, audio, and webcam being most important for most people.
3. A familiar feeling desktop environment.
4. An easy to use package installer GUI

The whole discussion of things like immutable, deb, rpm, systemd, Wayland vs x11, etc are somewhere between meaningless and a scary sounding distraction for normal people who are fed up with MS/Apple and thinkng about trying something else.