I'd be more than interested in building a mini server with the AMD Ryzen 7 5800U 8C/16T Up to 4.4 / 1.9 GHz 20MB Cache and 15 DP Watts. Trying to reduce my energy footprint while still enjoying most of the new features, but I guess there won't be a generic (mini itx) MoBo for that kind of mobile CPU :(

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Quoting: Boldos

Quoting: KithopAh, okay - that makes sense. I don't know much about them, but Tuxedo Computers appears to be based out of Germany, and at first glance sounds like kind of the same idea?

Quoting: 3zekiel

Quoting: KithopAh, okay - that makes sense. I don't know much about them, but Tuxedo Computers appears to be based out of Germany, and at first glance sounds like kind of the same idea?

For Tuxedo, we do use their computer at Office, and they have AMD options. Quite solid laptops for now. Roughly the same models, but with some adjustments: they tend to use lower power screen, so slightly less brightness, but better battery life, and much much more keyboard options. They also seem to use lightweight magnesium for more models than System76 last time I checked.
And of course, VAT is included and no custom fees.

Thanks guys. Yes, this is a very tempting alternative for the EU; I will be definitely checking with them, once I need a new laptop. Nevertheless, I was also interested about System76's oss firmware, which - AFAIK - nobody else provides.

You can also check slimbook, they seem to have pretty decent laptops with AMD

Quoting: 3zekielI somehow hope they could manage to work together with system76, also for OS side. I think that would be very productive move for both, and anyway, considering custom fee + VAT for system76 as it stands, I don't think they'll get many european customers ... So better cooperate together and try to improve to face bigger players like dell and co with a truly different offer and more world coverage.

That's a pretty cool idea.

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Quoting: haikuGo AMD, i just build a 100% AMD PC with a Ryzen 5 3600 and Radeon RX 5600XT

The MoBo, SSD and RAM too? :P

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That music it's handsomely similar to Mass Effect's beginning of the game and map chart. Wishlisted.

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On a slightly unrelated note, Nvidia is the only one benefiting from this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=HDMI-Closed-Spec-Hurts-Open

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There are few from the list that are in my top 10 for this year (Psychonauts 2 being one of them) but probably will end up not playing any of them until 2022.

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Quoting: ArehandoroCurious honest question: What do you all mean by "normal" distros?

I think it equates to "mainstream" or "easy to use". I couldn't even get Manjaro to do basic stuff like finding my wired Xbox360 controller, so I'm definitely not ready for the likes of Arch or Endeavour. I'm super-technical and nerdy, but I just can't bring myself to care enough about a distro that doesn't even do basic stuff out of the box. Ubuntu has set a standard that I'm not interested in going below.

My next curiousity / distro hop will be to check out Elementary, then Pop. I was toying with the idea of checking Solus too, but their recent packaging squabble has left me a bit cold. So it'll be Mint vs Elementary vs Pop. Then I'll decide what I'm going to settle on for the next couple of years.

Fair enough :)

In that regard, once the system is up and running, I find all of them almost equally easy/difficult to run/maintain. And I certainly don't need/want the extra time for configuring things from scratch, like LFS. And it is not that difficult either, there're millions of guides and scripts out there that do the hard work and basic configs automatically.

From a few years back, I feel like going for not mainstream distros or difficult to set up has become very popular, and mainly to show off of to tell that "mine is bigger than yours" sort of thing, which I honestly despise.

Maybe it's an age thing.

P.S: Pop_OS! is lovely. I even use their shell in fedora :)

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Curious honest question: What do you all mean by "normal" distros?

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Quoting: Bumadar

Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: BumadarI guess we been on linux for about the same amount of time, but funny enough i always sticked to opensuse as i felt it was the best kde distro, and yes i also reached the point where i felt it was boring, but right around that time tumbleweed started and i never looked back. At first it was tricky with an nvidia card but it gotten a bit easier once they gotten an nvidia repo for tumbleweed, i can only remember 2 issues with this rolling release, the bigest being when it took ages for nvidia to fix an issue with a new kernel. On new pc i went with an amd gfx card and the only other issue was one with vbox (need it for work). But overall its an amazingly stable rolling release wich is really close to new stuff.

Funny enough for work i now run a few ubuntu headless servers, still getting used to apt but am happy about things like systemd, in many ways it makes diffrent distro a lot closer together.

Is Tumbleweed not systemd based?

Yes, sorry i was not clear, i meant that i found getting stuff working on a lower level (timers, services) was exacly the same now thanks to systemd, on a low level the distros are not tnat diffrent anymore compared to 10 years ago.

Yeah, that's actually pretty nice. There are still disparity with where files are located and package names, but that's easier to figure out :)

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Quoting: BumadarI guess we been on linux for about the same amount of time, but funny enough i always sticked to opensuse as i felt it was the best kde distro, and yes i also reached the point where i felt it was boring, but right around that time tumbleweed started and i never looked back. At first it was tricky with an nvidia card but it gotten a bit easier once they gotten an nvidia repo for tumbleweed, i can only remember 2 issues with this rolling release, the bigest being when it took ages for nvidia to fix an issue with a new kernel. On new pc i went with an amd gfx card and the only other issue was one with vbox (need it for work). But overall its an amazingly stable rolling release wich is really close to new stuff.

Funny enough for work i now run a few ubuntu headless servers, still getting used to apt but am happy about things like systemd, in many ways it makes diffrent distro a lot closer together.

Is Tumbleweed not systemd based?

I was first encountered with Linux many, many years ago -25 if I recall correctly- but didn't really use it until 11 years ago or so. Since then, started with ubuntu, then quickly to Debian and stayed there for a long while because I didn't have new hardware and felt right at home with XFCE. Then new hardware came and my distro-hopping got pathologic lol. Stayed in Arch some months, Antergos, Anarchy, but Archa based weren't my cup of tea. Then to Ubuntu again, Pop_OS and some others like PureOS and Triskel -not for gaming, of course-. Then tried fedora and felt in love with it immediately. I guess, for GNOME users like me, it's the most adequate distro too.

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