Provide me with a fully native, GPU-accelerated Linux desktop for the sake of having a full, unfettered experience (and as a sort of long-term alternative to macOS if it ever becomes untenable…).For that scenario, I was set on buying a compact desktop that could do a few things properly: The good news is that I already had a good idea of what I wanted, since for the past year or so I have been itching to try out a Ryzen machine with an eye to using it alongside a future Apple Silicon desktop Mac. Rifling through storage yielded nothing I could use besides an embarrassing amount of ancient 32-bit Atom netbooks that I am currently cleaning up and preparing to donate or recycle, so I decided to buy a replacement. I loved the little thing as it ran Elementary passably and was a very lightweight plastic, throwaway machine I could take with me anywhere, plus it was quite nice and distraction-free to write drafts on–in fact, most of the past two years’ posts went through it at some stage before going back to a Mac or iPad for finishing. building and flashing ESP8266 and ESP32 firmware images, messing about with network stuff, fiddling with Rust, etc. This is going to be another non-Apple post, but for a good reason: As I wrote about the other day, my lovely, svelte and ultralight E111 died an accidental and ignominious death and I was left without a working “to the metal” Linux machine for low level hacking, i.e.
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