For day-to-day (email, web, blah blah) I keep a relatively current MacOS box. In addition I keep a ‘toy data center’ - a set of four NUC machines running Ubuntu on which I keep my various system management projects and development projects. They are all headless, so I have a small hdmi display I plug in when I need to do release upgrades and other tasks that require a ‘console’. ===== nygeek.net mindthegapdialogs.com/home On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 4:10 AM wrote: > "Jeffry R. Abramson" wrote: > > > Thinking of looking for something simpler and was just wondering what > > do other old timers use for their primary home computing needs? > > I run Ubuntu Mate. All the nice features of Ubuntu, plus a more > normal UI and everything just works. In particular it handles > current hardware (laptops, wifi, etc) fine, as well as knowing about > network printers, generally without problems. I work with a bunch > of terminal windows with Bash and gvim for editing, evince for viewing > PDFs and a web browser. > > If you want a more do-it-yourself kind of feel, you might try some > variant of Plan 9; the 9front fork is the most actively developed. > Plan 9 has ben on my to-do list for a few decades now; maybe once > I retire I'll actually get to it. :-) Be forewarned that there's > a learning curve there, Plan 9 is most definitely NOT Unix. > > HTH, > > Arnold >