Which Linux?

[miktec]

Welcome to the messy side of GRUB..........For a while I used RFIND as my boot loader.
DV

Yeah - Grub does appear to have its dark side - but for the most part I find it actually pretty reliable and nippy.
I tried RFIND and got nowhere fast so in the end have settled for no more than two OS on one machine and actually that works out fine.

What I have been impressed with is Debian running on an M.2 blade for an RPi rig ... that is pretty much as fast as I need to be ATM.
Also the range and variety of cases, extensions and add-ons that are now available for the RPi - all that has made the scope just that bit more exciting and challenging.

Only downside, I only have a couple of RPi 4 with 4GB and they tend to struggle a bit with (for instance) Youtube videos.
Really looking forward to when the 8GB model becomes freely available again - apparently some time in 2023 though

 

[Darth Vader]

An 8GB ram RPi would be good. I run Windows 11 Pro on a 4Gb RPi and it works surprisingly well. However some apps especially those that access the hardware such as low-level disks fail to work.

I think I'm getting too old now. What was once fun has become 'not another bloody problem' . That also happened years ago when I used to love playing and solving adventure games. Then it became 'not another problem to solve'. I was at that time working on the design of some of the largest and most complex global IT projects ........

DV

 

[gintonic]

What was once fun has become 'not another bloody problem

I spent most of my research career designing experimental microprocessors, daughter boards, writing specialist compilers. Building PC, etc used to excite me, solving these problems was an interesting challenge. Writing strangely complex regular expressions for use in scripts to do stuff.

Now - it is all tedious, just need a PC or phone and the correct app to do what I need......without anything complicated

 

[matthewr]

My network server has been running Arch for a few years. DWM for the desktop and a completely mouseless setup for the /flex

 

[matthewr]

HP launch a mainstream laptop which comes with Linux installed by default, in this case PopOS. A collaboration with Linux PC specialist System76.