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The Official 'Post Your Desktop & Specs' Thread

Yeah, I'd been hearing that there were security issues, but I didn't really care enough to investigate further honestly 🤷‍♂️.
Honestly, I can't think of a single reason to get an Intel chip now. AMD has been running right over them in every way.
 
My laptop's motherboard fried so I'm building my first PC

FD-CA-MESH-C-BKO
100-100000071BOX
X570 AORUS ELITE WIFI
MZ-76E1T0B/AM
F4-3600C16D-16GVK
ROG-STRIX-GTX1650S-A4G-GAMING
PS-TPD-0850FNFAGU-1
19042.330_Compact_x64_Nicky.iso

Considering I mostly play indies/emulators its a bit much but being able to open two instances of Minesweeper will be worth

Edit: Changed out the psu
Turns out my MB manufacturer doesn't support my OS of choice so I changed to a custom version of win10

Update: Picked up a ACFRE00066A. I wasn't a fan of the "free" fan AMD provided due to the rgb and always had planned to swap it out. I noticed my fans would all rev up periodically while work was idle. Looked around in the bios and found the cpu had some performance boost setting enabled. Disabling it cooled down the room noticeably and the fans never rev'd up since. I'm hoping to notice similar results with this cooler once I get it installed in the summer.
 
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N-N-N-N-NECROBUMP

no picture because i'm having issues getting images to upload, ~oh well~

currently running:
AMD ryzen 7 5700G, 8 core / 16 threads
32 GB DDR4
pretty small NVME boot drive (she's fast tho)
one 2 TB mechanical hard drive

host OS is debian linux. currently running four virtual machines, including a Whonix gateway and a Whonix workstation (that's where i'm posting from now!).

next year i hope to build a new computer, and restrict this one to gaming-only. my replacement daily use machine will be running Qubes OS (Xen-based virtualization). I currently run Qubes on my laptop, an old ASUS. it's got 24 GB of DDR3, something like a 20 GB M.2 SSD + 120 GB SATA SSD, i can't remember the processor, some second or third gen Intel chip. It hosts a myriad of instances of fedora, debian, whonix, and kicksecure linux.
 
Huh? Did you get an error from XF? What's up?
i got errors at imgur and while trying to upload here, both said it timed out. but it's ok, i just have a solid black background at the moment (i've normally got a folder of wallpapers that rotate randomly every 10 minutes but i was feeling bad one day and just set it to black, i'll probably change it back soon), and the xfce desktop environment. since everything is accessible in the applications menu, i don't have any shortcuts on the desktop. i have a two monitors at the moment so it was a little wide. i miss my third monitor (letting my partner borrow it, it's still mounted on my desk but our desks are side by side so it's turned towards them and hooked up to their computer)
What kind of graphics card you running?
a failing GTX 1070. i got it as a hand-me-down from a friend a few years ago when my R9 290X stopped working suddenly and i've had nothing but trouble with it since. my main screen randomly turns off after logging in (i have to open my graphics settings on the other monitor, turn the primary off, wait for the "are you sure?" dialog to count down to zero and revert changes, then it works), and a few of the games i want to play crash constantly (didn't have that issue with the old card), usually just crashes to desktop but sometimes it causes a kernel panic.
 
i got errors at imgur and while trying to upload here, both said it timed out.

Maybe a browser issue. What are you running there?

since everything is accessible in the applications menu, i don't have any shortcuts on the desktop.

This is the way. I use my desktop as an active project space.

a failing GTX 1070

You can get a Titan Xp for rather cheap now. Basically, it's a slightly enhanced 1080 Ti. Not super future-proof though. It looks like the 1080 Ti is FINALLY starting to show its age. 7 fucking years later.
 
Maybe a browser issue. What are you running there?
it must have been a temporary issue. i'm using the tor browser at the moment. not sure if it'll be able to be opened fullscreen or if it's locked to 800x800 but if this doesn't work how i expect it, i'll just drop a direct link to the imgur post in an edit

[IMG size="4240x1440"]https://i.imgur.com/MkyJYuJ.png[/IMG]
 
it must have been a temporary issue. i'm using the tor browser at the moment. not sure if it'll be able to be opened fullscreen or if it's locked to 800x800 but if this doesn't work how i expect it, i'll just drop a direct link to the imgur post in an edit

MkyJYuJ.png

Oh whoops. Totally forgot by the way. As a security measure to prevent nasty forms of spam posted by sleeper accounts, all new accounts must have made at least 10 posts to use the IMG BBCode.

And ewwwww, top-mounted taskbar. Gross. Doesn't allow you to throw your cursor to the corner of the screen to close a fullscreen window.
 
it must have been a temporary issue. i'm using the tor browser at the moment. not sure if it'll be able to be opened fullscreen or if it's locked to 800x800 but if this doesn't work how i expect it, i'll just drop a direct link to the imgur post in an edit

MkyJYuJ.png
hi i'm screenshot of my desktop now
Oh whoops. Totally forgot by the way. As a security measure to prevent nasty forms of spam posted by sleeper accounts, all new accounts must have made at least 10 posts to use the IMG BBCode.
good to know! i should be past that now / by the time i would post another image elsewhere

And ewwwww, top-mounted taskbar. Gross. Doesn't allow you to throw your cursor to the corner of the screen to close a fullscreen window.
i'm use to running multiple applications on one screen, so i've just been careful about where my cursor is and what i'm clicking on. if i REALLY wanted to close something quickly i'd just mash the alt+F4, but thankfully i'm never in that much of a hurry :p
 
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