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title: My Computer
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tags: ["productivity", "linux", "difficulty-moderate"]
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---
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## Hardware
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First off, I don’t believe in having more than one personal computer, as I think it’s wasteful, especially when your profession will provide you with an e-waste work laptop whether you like it or not. As such, I’m an eGPU apologist! My setup consists of a laptop connected to a Thunderbolt dock on one tb4 controller and an NVIDIA eGPU on the other. Speaking of…
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### Laptop
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- Framework Laptop, Batch 6
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- Repairable, upgradeable, and wholly yours. This thing is amazing.
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- I got in just early enough to be an "early adopter", but late enough that I was past the teething problems.
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- CPU: i5-1135g7
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- RAM: 2x16gb of Taiwan’s finest 3200MHz
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- SSD: 2tb gen3
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- Expansion Cards:
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- 1x 3D printed and custom magnetic charger adapter
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- 3x usb-c, to be swapped with any of usb-a, hdmi, microSD, or storage as needed
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So yeah, it’s pretty cool. Here are my peripherals:
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### Dock
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- Razer Thunderbolt 4 Dock (non-Chroma)
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- A buncha ports in one place. Really solid DAC for the headphones too, better than the onboard.
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### eGPU
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- ADT-Link R43SG-TB3
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- It was smaller than a core x chroma
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- Dell DA-2
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- eBay’s finest
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- GTX1650
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- Upgrade Soon(tm), it’s really not good. I’ll probably go to the power limit of the DA-2, so like a 3060ti or so
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## OS/Configuration
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I run Fedora Linux with the GNOME desktop environment. I was a longtime Windows 10 user, and dabbled in Linux a bit, but eventually got fed up enough with Windows that I swapped for good.
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Previously, I’ve also daily driven Linux Mint. You can read more about my history with Linux on [[on-linux|its dedicated page]].
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### On User Interface
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I’ve daily driven XFCE, Budgie, Unity, and KDE before. No DE really caught my eye in a way that feels both intuitive and productive until GNOME. The overview is such a neat concept that’s performant, useful for rapid task switching, and pretty. I recommend the Blur My Shell extension for best results, as well as an extension that gives you trackpad gestures for your windowing system.
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- Little tip for productivity: if you use gestures, throw each new window on a different workspace and swipe instead of alt-tabbing.
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### Config!
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I use a [bare git repository](https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles) to backup all my small configuration files that are scattered throughout my computer.
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- Sidebar: I deviated from the tutorial and called my alias `dots` instead of `config`. It just felt better and there was no chance of confusion with Fedora's `configure` system utility.
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#### Config Hell
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- There are a lot of little tweaks I do to software to make it fully useful to me, which is the one argument I’ve ever raised *against* compartmentalizing through Flatpak, Snap, etc.
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- I have a bunch of Flatpak programs with absolutely no settings sync or remotely near the capability to sync, so what do I do when I want to migrate?
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- Hey kids wanna see a dead husk of a man? Come find me three hours after I update my Neovim install. Dear lord, that thing breaks OFTEN. |