Linux OS stuff Thread

I'm about to get some variety of mini PC to do linux things, since A) I want to put it on my main desk B) I have spare memory and NVME/SSDs but nothing but a 3080 lying around and don't want to build another whole PC at this point because, well, everyone knows, C) this is kind of an uncompleted quest for me, as over the years I have made a number of attempts at this ala raspberry pi et al but never gotten very far, or not far enough. Now with Mint/Arch/SteamOS and Omarchy, the straw/camel's back equation is finally achieved, at potentially the worst possible time. What I really want is one of those Red Beelinks but I really don't want to (not another list) pay $1200-1500 bucks for something that may not get that much use or 700 bucks for one with 24GB of the soldered LPDDR5X.

sakkath said:

You could look at one of the minisforum units like the MS- barebones models for example so you can put your own ram (as long as it's SODIMM) and SSD in it.
Laptop hardware so not huge amounts of grunt but they're nice small units at an ok price point and a variety of CPU options. I think you can put a small GPU in it if you want.

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As long as you get something like the UM880 Plus, which has the Oculink Port, you could indeed use an external GPU with it.

Kharzette said:

What package manager does omarchy use?

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its arch so pacman i imagine?

Noodleface said:

It has its own package manager and they say not to use package manager.

I am still not convinced omarch is all hype yet

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I installed it on a 2nd pc but haven't had time to dick with it. My one take away is, I'm not a fan of tile based desktop managers.