Ok Fediverse, hit me up at your nerdiest:

[kaidenshi@exquisite.social]

@Em0nM4stodon MeLE Quieter 4C running Void Linux. Everything works and it’s actually very performant for a “low end” system.

[anachronistjohn@zia.io]

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange It's a PineBook - not Pro, but the original - but the one with the high res 1920x1080 screen. It's small, runs forever on batteries, can stay charged from any USB port, and it runs #NetBSD awesomely.

[msokiovt@uwu.social]

@Em0nM4stodon

I have a self-built PC running CachyOS with i3 + XLibre. It's a content creation PC that I share with my producer.

[toroidalcore@masto.hackers.town]

@Em0nM4stodon A used thin client, like a Dell Wyse 5070 or HP T430 running Debian. I don't use this on the desktop, but it's great for something serverish and only uses a few watts at idle while being reasonably powerful when needed.

[benedikt@ruhr.social]

@Em0nM4stodon @lars probably rather 64 GiB

[fiend_unpleasant@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon My next mini pc is going to be a HIGOLEPC Mini PC (Celeron N5095 with 16GB DDR4) that I will be installing Debian on to set up for hamradio using 73 Linux.

[b0rn_dead@metalhead.club]

@Em0nM4stodon many AMD APUs are probably fine too if they're somewhat modern.

[allanon@mastodon.uno]

@Em0nM4stodon I have a second hand Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p + Manjaro, it's pretty old but for my needs it's great!

[dallo@pouet.chapril.org]

@Em0nM4stodon
The steamdeck. It is a mini PC with a Nintendo Switch form factor. Great to use on any TV not just yours. Awesome on the train. Shipped with Linux so beginner friendly.

[the@ultracrepidarian.mysteriar.ch]

@Em0nM4stodon

Any hardware whatsoever as long as it's capable of running NixOS, NixOS. I use NixOS, btw. Sorry, I had to.

[nieuemma@mastodon.de]

@Em0nM4stodon MiniPC? I have had an ITX system with an AMD 5700G for a few years and its nice. Otherwise I really liked my Pi02W with archlinux and i3wm. Not powerful enough to run GUI apps but terminal based stuff was great.

[maaneeack@noc.social]

@Em0nM4stodon I got one of these, HP EliteDesk 800 G3 Mini Intel I5-7500 3.40GHZ 16GB RAM 256GB Windows 11 pro, formatted it first thing (after opening it and making sure everything was good). I installed Proxmox on it, and have my HAOS running on it now. My pi3b+ needed to be replaced and the sdcard died so

[lars@fedihub.space]

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange @benedikt@ruhr.social oh sorry 😅 i mean 64 GB RAM.

[explodinglemur@mastodon.online]

@Em0nM4stodon Hardware: any N100 or N150 based mini PC from Beelink, GMKTec, AceMagic, or Minisforum. Lots of them out for under $200 with 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD (though that may be going up with RAM prices). If you need more horsepower look at those same vendors for anything with a Zen3 or newer processor that has RDNA2 or newer integrated graphics. The channel ETA Prime on YouTube reviews a bunch for gaming use cases. Linux: whatever your favorite distro is that supports the hardware :)

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@lars @benedikt Ah that makes more sense haha, and that's fast! 🚀✨

[lars@fedihub.space]

@benedikt@ruhr.social @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange yes it’s fast enough.

[amoroso@oldbytes.space]

@Em0nM4stodon I don't know whether it's the best but my favorite such setup is a System76 Merkaat with Linux Mint Cinnamon:

https://journal.paoloamoroso.com/system76-merkaat-with-linux-mint-first-impressions

These days I would probably go with a Tuxedo device though.