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List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: --0000000000007837d10613100a08 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For day-to-day (email, web, blah blah) I keep a relatively current MacOS box. In addition I keep a =E2=80=98toy data center=E2=80=99 - a set of fou= r 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 =E2=80=98console=E2=80=99. =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D nygeek.net mindthegapdialogs.com/home On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 4:10=E2=80=AFAM 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 > --0000000000007837d10613100a08 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
For day-to-day (email, web, blah blah) I keep a relativel= y current MacOS box.=C2=A0 In addition I keep a =E2=80=98toy data center=E2= =80=99 - a set of four NUC machines running Ubuntu on which I keep my vario= us system management projects and development projects.=C2=A0 They are all = headless, so I have a small hdmi display I plug in when I need to do releas= e upgrades and other tasks that require a =E2=80=98console=E2=80=99.


On Thu, Mar 7, 202= 4 at 4:10=E2=80=AFAM <arnold@skeeve= .com> wrote:
"Jeffry R. Abramson"= ; <jeffry= rabramson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thinking of looking for something simpler and was just wondering what<= br> > do other old timers use for their primary home computing needs?

I run Ubuntu Mate.=C2=A0 All the nice features of Ubuntu, plus a more
normal UI and everything just works.=C2=A0 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
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