Mostly a HP Envy (i5, Nvidia), about 5 years old, running Win 11, Linux Mint 21.1, LMDE 5 (Elsie), Ubuntu (Jammy), Arch Linux, I run a core group of favorite apps on all these distros, less Win 11. The group consists of CQRLOG, Fldigi, WSJT-X, JS8Call, QSSTV. Not into Winlink / Packet yet, but hopefully soon.
Then there's a new notebook, an ASUS Zephyrus to explore possibilities of a Ryzen-9 and Radeon graphics in a 16GB RAM environment. So far, fun but not all plain sailing. More on this later.
Raspberry Pis mostly B variants and one Zero used as a D-Star hotspot, running mostly Raspbian. (RasPis also used for home security.)
So having steered folks toward "Linux Mint" in a previous post, and yes I still stand by that, what do I use myself? Linux Mint, by any chance?
Yes, I'm using Mint 21.1 right now to post and administer The Hambone. It's easy, reliable and an old friend.
But what "distro" do I enjoy most? Arch Linux in it's various flavors. It is blistering fast and g…login to view the rest of this post
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