Hi zs5zk,
I am old pensioner also, and running Linux Mint 21.1 on an old iMAC. I just started yesterday.
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Welcome so great to have you. Have a look around bump any threads that interest you.
I’m seeing a lot of Linux Mint users. Any reason why you started with Mint and why would you recommend it?
I have not tried mint in probably 8 to 10 years. I wonder how much it has evolved and matured.
Hi all, very glad to have found this place - seems very nice! I am a neuroscience student looking to learn more about how our brain performs computations 
and how we can help people who are impaired using brain-computer interfaces 
. I enjoy programming, which I do mainly in Python, MATLAB, and R (but I would really like to learn C - anyone has any good resources in particular?).
I am a big proponent of open science and open source (shame that MATLAB is basically the standard in this field…) and I want to promote this as much I can. Personally, I run Fedora Linux on my daily driver laptop. I use it for aforementioned programming, emailing, reading papers, creating LaTeX documents, and also to simply play with interesting Linux stuff. Great to meet you all!
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Welcome Andreas! 
Great to have you here. Interesting background. Over my head but there are others here who are also programmers.
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Nice to meet you @andreas and others in thread thread!
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Hi all, I’m Richard from The Netherlands.
I found this forum while looking for a atop alternative (ended up witch Bashtop 
).
I work as a Technical support specialist at a Dutch hosting company and have a small home lab.
I recently moved to our first own house and currently in the prosses to build up Home Assistant and playing around with automations.
Within my home lab I run:
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6 VM’s on a Fujitsu Fujitsu Primergy RX200 S8
24 core (2x 12) Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2620 v2 @ 2.10GHz with 125GB of Ram -
The VM’s:
- Nextcloud and Bitwarden
- Open VPN
- Windows Server 2019 (for some network services)
- Windows 10 (save place to mess up)
- Home Assistant
- Reverse Proxy
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UDM Pro with 4 TB Drive (3 Access points, 3 networks (Main, guest, IoT), 4 camera’s and a doorbell.
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A Intel Nuc for PiHole and Uptime Kuma
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A rented VPS for my sites.
Allot of stuff to keep running and keep up-to-date, but it helps me try new thing, have a ‘save’ place to try stuff and from time to time fail, and most off al it’s just fun.
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Hi Richard, 
Welcome to the forums. Bashtop is pretty great. It’s been superseded by btop. Give it a try also:
Tell us more about your homelab… photos? You can start a new thread if you are up to it. Home lab inspiration/sharing is always welcomed here.
Related topics:
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Welcome Richard. Nice setup you’ve got going there.
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@hydn Thanks.
I wanted to use btop, but on some of my systems I could not install it, bashtop could.
So one 1 or 2 systems I have both
Sure, I will try to share more about my lab soon.
Need to do some server cleaning soon and can write down some system stats that I do not have now 
Here is a sneek peek
(And yes with RGB, because RGB makes everything run faster 
)
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Hi all, I apologize for presenting myself only now (I subscribed on Feb), my name is Aldo and I live in Rome, Italy. I’ve been dealing with IT since 1986 when I took my first Dos and Basic courses (good ol’times!!!), spacing from programming to end user support, systems analysis, software management at corporate level, some CAD, networking, assembling PCs for family and friends, etc… I started playing with Linux at the end of last century, and got a RPI1 as it was launched. Still have it, still works great. Then family and kids got into the way and Linux as my hobby was set aside for a few years. I “rediscovered” it during the pandemic, brought both RPI1 and RPI3b back to life, and got a RPI4. Since Feb23 I have some more spare time and am slowly learning to code in Python, and I’ll need all help this community will be able to give me! Thank you for taking me onboard, and happy coding, testing and debugging to all! 
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The sneak peek is looking beautiful! I added RGB in my PC case (all while light) but now this is cool for the rack also lol A great office night light! 
Welcome @aldof Such a pleasure to have you and potentially be able to interact share, connect, collaborate, and learn together.
Hello, everybody! The latest member of this group could also be the oldest! Héctor here. Retired after many many years working with computers. Last thing I did was some linux consulting and problem solving; now I keep myself busy doing exactly that but in my home computer. If you see that I’m not learning something then please call the forensics because I’m no longer living…
Regards.
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Welcome to the forums @hexram
Awesome to have you. If you are indeed the oldest here we may have to give you the “Godfather” title. There are several experienced gurus like yourself here. 
Feel free to browse some of the old threads where we have had discussions that may interest you.
Truly a pleasure to connect.
Welcome @hexram! As you’ve been working with computers for quite some time, may I ask what you think has been the most profound change (for the better or for the worse) in computing over time?
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Hi, Andreas. Quite a question! Let me begin by saying that I’m not sure to know the answer, but I’ll try and share with you my ramblings on this subject. When we look at computing as a timeline, it should not be difficult to assert that the very start of it had a definitive profound change in our lives, be it as computing people or not; this particular rambling was selected because it is quite easy to become extremely philosophical regarding such ample range of interpretation as is your question.
Now, as a computing people myself, my thinking of profound changes in computing is coloured by the activity I’ve done during my career. As such, what made me feel baffled the most when it appeared in that computing timeline is OOP. The feeling I had of a radical breakthrough after being almost obligued to adopt that programming paradigm is definitively -for me- the most profound change in my computing experience over time.
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Thank you for your answer! And I realise my question was quite broad and prone to provoke endless philosophical discussions. I think your answer (OOP) is quite interesting - I never considered this is as having caused a change in computing and programming. When I started learning programming, it was just there and well-established and I took (and have been taking) it for granted. Of course I have seen the quite intense discussions the different paradigms spark in online communities
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I support mainly RH Linux systems and I’ve used Linux on and off in various projects over the last 12-15 years.
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Great to have you here. Welcome!
I’m a DBA. I like system Linux and oracle DB.
I like to learn new thing.
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