The journey began in 1996 with a desktop PC purchased by my parents and dial-up internet, igniting my passion for IT.
Linux laptop history
Starting from 1998: Dell Inspiron 7000 A366LT, ThinkPad T40p, ThinkPad T60p, ThinkPad x301, Alienware M14x R2, Alienware 14, and the Pinebook Pro. After 11 years, I finally retired my Alienware 14. Read why I returned to ThinkPad.
Read my ThinkPad T14s Gen 3 AMD laptop review.
Current desktop
In my office I’m usually working on my desktop PC, which is a budget-friendly, all-black, no flashing RGBs, no-nonsense – ATX Mid-Tower build.
Yesterday, I wrote this article Building an LLM-Optimized Linux Server on a Budget because I am going to gift my sister (19 years younger) the above rig. But I really have found the 4000d case second-to-none for cooling, so the replacement will be mostly the same rig with just beefed up specs for LLMs.
Linux distro history
Distros used longer than six months: Arch, Ubuntu 6.06+, (k)Ubuntu 14/16, Mint 5/6, Crunchbang, Kali, Debian 5/6, Debian 8/9, Debian SID, Fedora 27+, Manjaro + i3, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS w/ Pop Shell i3-like tiling.
Currently, I’m using Kali-i3 on both desktop and laptop, pictured below. Correction, currently I’m using Kali + Gnome on both desktop and laptop. I’m enjoying the improved workflow so much that, I’ve stopped booting into Windows 11 lol.
(I pasted much of above, which reminds me I need to update it)