segaloco
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I'm curious what sort of setups other vintage computer nerds use for their day to day computing.
For me it's a Raspberry Pi 400 running a custom-but-stock GNU/Linux system clobbered together from upstream source packages. Think Linux-From-Scratch but not tightly following their recipes. SysVinit+standard GNU userland+X11+dwm. Most stuff done through fbcon and xterm but I do have Firefox installed for more conventional web browsing.
Peripherals are a 1920x1080 LCD monitor, basic mouse, and a Sun type-7 USB keyboard with the extra copy/paste/etc keys. Audio is through a custom interface I built to drive two Western Electric 107-type speakerphone speakers, although I've got a sub and a couple of modern speakers for when I need higher fidelity (the 107s are band-limited to the standard telephone voiceband, but they look cool and have 70s Bell System logos...).
It's quite minimal but I enjoy that. Boot and shutdown times are on the order of seconds and I've written a plethora of scripts and utilities for my most common projects (document scanning, disassembling old video games, programming experiments). It gets some gameplay re: emulation and Doom although most older game stuff I run on a Wii spitting YPbPr into a Trinitron.
I couldn't find another "what's your daily system" thread but if there is an established one, I'll gladly rewrite this as a reply to that one. Otherwise I'm certainly interested in what other folks turn to for their day-to-day!
For me it's a Raspberry Pi 400 running a custom-but-stock GNU/Linux system clobbered together from upstream source packages. Think Linux-From-Scratch but not tightly following their recipes. SysVinit+standard GNU userland+X11+dwm. Most stuff done through fbcon and xterm but I do have Firefox installed for more conventional web browsing.
Peripherals are a 1920x1080 LCD monitor, basic mouse, and a Sun type-7 USB keyboard with the extra copy/paste/etc keys. Audio is through a custom interface I built to drive two Western Electric 107-type speakerphone speakers, although I've got a sub and a couple of modern speakers for when I need higher fidelity (the 107s are band-limited to the standard telephone voiceband, but they look cool and have 70s Bell System logos...).
It's quite minimal but I enjoy that. Boot and shutdown times are on the order of seconds and I've written a plethora of scripts and utilities for my most common projects (document scanning, disassembling old video games, programming experiments). It gets some gameplay re: emulation and Doom although most older game stuff I run on a Wii spitting YPbPr into a Trinitron.
I couldn't find another "what's your daily system" thread but if there is an established one, I'll gladly rewrite this as a reply to that one. Otherwise I'm certainly interested in what other folks turn to for their day-to-day!