Honestly 1080p is enough still and if you dont care all that much maybe try the jump to what others call 2k (2560×1440). It's a huge jump in quality and wayyy easier to run than 4k. I wouldn't recommend ultra wide unless you know how to mod games and all your shows will have black bars. I will say you should try a dual monitor setup! It's convenient if you ever wanna boot up something separate or put a video on the side. Sometimes I'll play my ps3 on my main monitor and transfer files/do other tech stuff on my pc in the background. 100hz is good but if you can affordably get 144 or 175hz I'd recommend that too. Realistically you shouldnt't need to spend more than ~3-400 dollars on a new monitor, especially around holidays or days like fathers/mothers day. They get real cheap around them at places like Best Buy usually. Last bit of advice: price check always. I bought a monitor off Amazon for 50 dollars more than I would have paid on Newegg

i like lisp

Here's mine. This is my second PC, took it out yesterday. Using it since and will probably use it more because I'm too lazy to use anything else right now. I have a 1050Ti I want to use but guess what, I'm too lazy to set it up.

>>1829 pretty. what's the theme?

thinkin of changing up my desktop, but really since i'm using KDE there is only so much i can do. any suggestions hikarins? >change DE using immutable distro, can't do that.

>>1830 NTA, but it looks like Redmond97 SE Ouroboros? Or something close to it. https://codeberg.org/Sliver_X/Redmond97-SE

Are Thinkpads really worth it? I have the opportunity to buy one for 387 USD, around 8gb of RAM and refurbished

>>1817 overpriced worth it if cheaper

>>1817 Don't spend more than $100 on a Thinkpad.

Hey, OP here. I finally built the PC. Everything has been working fine, until I heard this rattling/grinding noise from my PSU. Is it something I should really be worried about? I may need to RMA it. https://files.catbox.moe/m8jka7.mp4

>>1827 You may have to do that. Just dont open it up and tinker with it. Your life isnt worth a couple hundred dollars at most

>>1806 What if you vibe code?

>>1807 Vibe cope

>>1806 sorry hikarin i don't know perl

>Anyone here know perl? Perl is unknowable. A monk can train for a hundred years in the monastery at the foot of the masters without achieving satori. Reflect on Perl. Recite Larry's sutras. In time, you will find the Perl was inside you all along. Go in peace~

>>1595 i mostly started using it out of curiosity. the laptop i have it installed on is really only used for college and extra-curricular studies so i thought why not. there is also the privacy aspect, which is always nice. is Qubes a bit more than my threat model needs? perhaps for now. but that may change in the future. honestly it functions quite well for my usecase, and the focus on compartmentalization strokes my autism a certain kind of way.

why are you gae

cool

Do you like doing hackthebox and other ctfs? What videogames do you like? Have you tried emulating OSX or windows? Or more obscure systems? Thinking about going back to qubes myself..

>>1811 OP here. specifically on QubesOS gayming is not very good, something to do with the way the system sends input to the VM by default. you can hack it to work (i tried with Minecraft as a test) but it's obviously not the intention. i did not try emulating OSX but i did emulate Windows 7 and it was fine enough, about the same as emulating it on any other OS. >obscure systems i did emulate ReactOS on it, i suppose that counts i actually ended up switching off of it because i decided it was unnecessary for my threat model, and my 8gb laptop frequently ran out of memory during my daily usage.

>a combination of dicksword, Anonymous Imageboard and Feditwittereddiverse

People have been trying to make stuff like this forever. At the end of the day it's never something new, even live boards follow the same formula. Everytime a new ``next big things" seems to happen, it just remind me of a more creative and thought-through project that never went anywhere.

I have an SSD in both of my computers. You may as well upgrade, hikarin. It's a noticable improvement.

I think its very worth it, I have a t60 and upgraded it to an ssd, it took it from an old pc to basically on par with any of my newer computers.

>>1754 SSDs not only have faster read/write times (essentially quicker transfer speeds) but some games are now requiring them to load stuff quick enough. You may see an increase in performance and they have virtually zero moving parts (at least m.2's) so you don't have to worry about head crashes or moving parts failing/making noise.

>>1754 Me luv SSD I can just slam them and memory doesn't get corrupt. Like God intended. Stone tablet tier reliability

>>1797 Shut up gay loser nerd who can barely get ethernet to work on a virtual machine

Here's me browsing Syrno's site >>1798 Haven't looked into it in a while and wanted to take a peek. It does not run very well lol. Works well enough for a testing environment or as a way to run very old software incompatible with newer versions I guess. Disappointing to see that over 29 years of development it is still only functional for niche cases. >>1799 You will be groped for your crimes. I did get the ethernet to work thank you very much.

>>1800 grope me to the fullest extent of the law

Use ReactOS as a daily driver >>1801 This nyagan is part of the gay mafia

can it run the zig compiler for windows? I have a drive with windows that I use when I can't trust cross-compilation but windows 11 doesn't support this machine

>>1774

>>1774 this post gallaghed the everliving shit out of >>1775 and >>1776 GNARF

>>1752 "The beauty of Linux is that most distros are reskins of debian/ubuntu"

>>1779 Not what I said, and also false. The beauty of Linux is that distros have a lot more in common with each other than most people realize. I just happened to use Debian and Ubuntu as an example, because I was talking about Mint. I'm sure most things you learn in the Debian side of Linux could be applied in the Arch or Gentoo side of Linux, etc etc. It's all Linux anyway. >>1772 >But the way I see it is that with source-based distros you at least have a fighting chance so to speak, as long as you know what you are doing. With binary-based distros, if something breaks or doesn't work, you are pretty much cooked. What do you mean by "fighting chance"? It's not like there aren't workarounds for things in binary- based distros, and some break less often than others. I'd much rather have a system that is stable and somewhat hard to fix than a system that breaks often but is easy to fix. >Can I recommend Debian to a newcomer when I know that writing a .ebuild is significantly easier than writing a Debian package? Can I recommend either when I know that both these things are relatively complex technical tasks? Newcomers, and even some tech-savvy users don't write their own packages. In fact most people don't even need to do that. Why should that be considered? >I don't have experience running binaries made for Windows on Linux, but I have a vague idea of the whole stack being finicky, fragile and error prone - it has to be, because of how both X11 and Wayland work. It isn't. In my experience, at least on X11, a lot of things just work with vanilla Wine, and setting up Lutris or Heroic with GEProton, or even running stuff through Steam isn't complicated. Of course it's not perfect, but don't forget that you're trying to run a binary made for a whole different OS.

>>1795 >Newcomers, and even some tech-savvy users don't write their own packages. In fact most people don't even need to do that. Why should that be considered? That's what I was thinking. I've been a casual Linux user for years (I've used debian, arch, and fedora based distros) but I have never once written my own package nor have I needed to. Linux is quite easy for the casual user as long as they have a basic understanding of how computers work, and even then the new fancy immutable distros that use flatpaks are so easy my grandmother could figure it out.