What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

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Re: What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sat Apr 30, 2022 8:42 pm

Here you are. I was just mentioning you in another post. So the Alienware laptop is already news of yesteryear.

I went to the dark side this year, too, on my phone. It is an iPhone SE that I bought refurbished, but in premium quality. Who knows, maybe once you get into that ecosystem...

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Re: What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

Unread post by Titan » Sun May 01, 2022 11:10 am

Well the alienware is an 8th gen i9 and even re-pasting every 6 months it gets really hot sometimes. I know its designed to do this and well within tolerance but i needed something for study that was quiet and had more than 4 hrs battery. The macbook pro has given me a little over 30 hours when using just super lightweight programs.

My work provide me with an iPhone and i just cannot warm up to it. My personal phone is a samsung Note20 ultra and i got this deliberately to replace my note9. those S-pen things are super useful and I use mine a lot.
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Re: What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sun May 01, 2022 9:04 pm

Funny, I really dig my iPhone. Finally a phone that just works without me doing anything with it but I am not a heavy phone user anyway. Though I still hate smartphones and I use them almost exclusively on the road, especially mountain biking.

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Re: What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

Unread post by Titan » Sun May 01, 2022 11:50 pm

I just use my work iphone for calls / texts as we lock our iphones with DEP and custom management profiles to prevent us from doing much to them.
Even if they were not locked, the features of the samsung note are something i use daily and im not sure what i would do if i had a device that didnt have them.

I always loved plasma but until 2019 was daily driving a netbook with an intel atom cpu and 2GB ram and that thing cant even load 480p youtube videos.

It's the little things about plasma that make it great, for example, you click the battery icon in the panel it shows the battery level of not just the laptop but my wireless mouse and earphones, not even Windows or Macos do that.
Or how i was able to create a simple bash script to show desktop notification bubbles with the contents of syslog files on a remote host. (super useful if your ISP's router keeps shitting its pants and you need to know when/why)

I did install i3 first but as i was never able to get any WM setup to look as pretty as the folks over on r/Unixporn, i settled for IMO the next prettiest thing, and yes, I did do a double take when i saw the number of packages to install :D
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Re: What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

Unread post by wuxmedia » Tue May 03, 2022 7:51 am

Yeah Ubuntu here, I'm not the worlds most massive fan but too lazy to re-install i3 :D
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Re: What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

Unread post by arnold » Sun Oct 16, 2022 10:40 pm

I pretty much use Arch now with various window managers i3, bspwm, dk. I'll have some sway stuff somewhere on Arch or kiss linux

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Re: What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

Unread post by rust collector » Thu May 18, 2023 4:59 pm

well.

on the desktop indoors, I now use "ameliorated" windows 10
i am not sure about anything about it, but it has been ok, for about a year.

https://ameliorated.io/

on the desktop in the garage, I use MX linux 19, with xfce.

on the laptop, I am testing something called kumander linux, which is debian with xfce, made to look like windows7, pretty much.
It is nice, because then I do not have to remember anything

https://www.kumander.org/

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