<div dir="auto">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’.<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>=====<br><a href="http://nygeek.net" target="_blank">nygeek.net</a></div><div><a href="https://www.mindthegapdialogs.com/home" target="_blank">mindthegapdialogs.com/home</a><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 4:10 AM <<a href="mailto:arnold@skeeve.com">arnold@skeeve.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">"Jeffry R. Abramson" <<a href="mailto:jeffryrabramson@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffryrabramson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Thinking of looking for something simpler and was just wondering what<br>
> do other old timers use for their primary home computing needs?<br>
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I run Ubuntu Mate. All the nice features of Ubuntu, plus a more<br>
normal UI and everything just works. In particular it handles<br>
current hardware (laptops, wifi, etc) fine, as well as knowing about<br>
network printers, generally without problems. I work with a bunch<br>
of terminal windows with Bash and gvim for editing, evince for viewing<br>
PDFs and a web browser.<br>
<br>
If you want a more do-it-yourself kind of feel, you might try some<br>
variant of Plan 9; the 9front fork is the most actively developed.<br>
Plan 9 has ben on my to-do list for a few decades now; maybe once<br>
I retire I'll actually get to it. :-) Be forewarned that there's<br>
a learning curve there, Plan 9 is most definitely NOT Unix.<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
<br>
Arnold<br>
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