Hello, I just bought a new computer and would like to show it off a bit I am also curious about what you’re programming/gaming on, so post your computers here
The laptop I bought is a refurbished librebooted RYF certified ThinkPad X200, Core 2 duo, 8 GB RAM, Intel GMA 4500MHD, 1280×800 matte display. It’s a very oldschool laptop, the kind you’d see in a 90s hacker movie or something, I am loving it. Despite the “low” specs it runs completely well, quietly, and even runs games like Xonotic at playable FPS.
My plan was to dual boot OpenBSD and some Linux distro but after a few unsuccessful attempts at correctly partitioning the disk I just settled for Devuan I am now running on 100% free software and am ready to continue working on Anarch!
i7 quad core (8 threads)
8 GB ram
It says there is an nvidia geforce card, but we don’t have the proprietary drivers so it uses the intel HD Graphcis 4600
It is a decent little machine I really like using it. Though my real powerhouse is my desktop upstairs, I spend more time on this so I can be downstairs half keeping an eye on the offspringlettes
Also, good to see you again Wizard King drummyfish
Nice! There is the free noveau driver you could use for NVidia, but if you don’t need it, Intel probably won’t eat up that much power. Anyway, nice to see you too
I think I tried the Noveau driver at one point and it actually was less performant than the intel one or at least, pretty buggy. That was quite some time ago, maybe I should give it a go but yes the intel graphics on this thing are more than good enough for Pokitto programming and some small java projects
I’ve got quite a lot of other open source stuff that I don’t use as often (e.g. Blender, Inkscape).
Most of my closed source software is either stuff that’s bundled with the system (e.g. Paint, Notepad, Calculator), games-related (e.g. Steam, Minecraft) or programming-related (e.g. Visual Studio (several versions), EmBitz).
I play this a whole lot more than I should haha. The special edition version works in proton now (my brother that uses Ubuntu told me) so I’ll need to start a new game soon xD
Well, I have a “proper” battle station too that I basically just use to play Xonotic (and host servers for it) and print stuff. It’s some 8 years old desktop PC, can’t remember the specs, I think it’s i2, NVidia GPU and 8 GB of RAM. It runs Debian and some proprietary SW like BIOS and drivers.
A lot of this is suckless SW which you have to compile yourself, but it’s very easy. One advantage of using this minimal SW is that your computer performance skyrockets and you can really be using a 2000s laptop in 2020. It also gives you the true freedom to edit the source code to suit your personal needs because it’s such a simple source code (as opposed to e.g. Firefox or Blender source code).
As you know, I am proudly not using Steam or proprietary games, even though I played Skyrim back in the day and it was one of the best games for me (behind Morrowind and a few others).
I do, but none that are presently functioning.
Though if I had a functioning laptop I probably wouldn’t use it much anyway.
Your post reminded me I also have ffmpeg and audacity.
I use ffmpeg for converting things and extracting sound from videos, but I only use audacity very rarely, usually for extracting soundbites.
(Ffmpeg can extract parts of a sound too, but I’ve found it tends to be less precise than audacity.)
I have always had a work-supplied IBM then Lenovo laptop and always the high-end T or X Series. They have all been great and I still have a handful of the most recent ones sitting around at home (my wife has a hand-me-down, so does my son and I have a few desk warmers.)
My current one is a T480S with 32Gb Ram, an i7 and 512Gb SSD. It is approaching two years old now so I will pester work to upgrade it for me.
My own machines are Macs. I have two 27" IMacs - an older one and my newish beast.
I lug around this behemoth as my trusted personal notepad. Its a Dell Precision M6700 with i7, 32GB RAM, some Nvidia Quadro. DVD drive, 17" display, 35 USB ports and weighs 2.5 tons. Its old but it does the business. In many tasks my current work computer (a Dell workstation) is worse.
Edit: IDK if this qualifies as a Battlestation because I play so rarely. I think the last game we played alot was Papers, please!