Share your daily driver computer setup

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Not sure if this has changed since your comment but you can actually use Headscale on iOS: https://headscale.net/iOS-client/.

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I am sharing my private setup main configuration

  1. Macbook
  2. MacOS
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Computer: Dell Inspiron 15 3511

OS : Fedora 39

Apps I use on a daily basis (excluding the default GNOME apps :

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  1. Alienware laptop with Intel iGPU and Nvidia dGPU

  2. Fedora KDE Wayland

  • Beginner-friendly Linux distro recommended by Privacy Guides that Mullvad VPN officially supports
  • No need to disable secure boot to successfully install proprietary Nvidia drivers
  • KDE supports functional[1] fractional scaling out-of-the-box, which I need to comfortably use my laptop
  1. I prefer Flatpaks for almost all apps and use KDE’s Flatpak Permission Settings to restrict broad and unneeded permissions, and force non-gaming apps to use only Wayland.
  • Browsers
    • Firefox
    • Mullvad Browser, with env MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 added to its .desktop file
    • Brave, with #ozone-platform-hint flag set to “Wayland” in brave://flags/
  • Other preferred apps
    • Mullvad VPN
    • Anytype, with --ozone-platform=wayland[2] added to its .desktop file to launch the app in a Wayland window
    • Bottles
    • Heroic Games Launcher, another Electron app that can use --ozone-platform=wayland
    • Gwenview

  1. KDE’s implementation of fractional scaling (found in their Display Configuration settings) lets X11 apps running via XWayland to apply scaling themselves, which avoids blurriness. ↩︎

  2. Edit: it seems that the --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform flag is not needed (tested using Kwin debug console) ↩︎

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I’m just curious about why you chose Alienware as it’s known to be VERY expensive compared to other laptop brands like Acer, HP etc?

Does Alienware offer some kind of unique security for users?

Also, Alienware would never support someone running a Linux distro on their hardware. Even a user running anything non-Windows would receive zero support and may void their warranty… :frowning_face:

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It was an extremely misinformed buy. I remember that I chose it because it ranked the highest in aggregate among several articles listing the “best gaming laptops,” which I now know to be affiliate-link-ridden, search-engine-optimized blogspam.

What triggered this purchase was that my laptop before this one did not qualify for an upgrade to Windows 10. As you can probably tell, I was not at all aware about Linux during this time.

No

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I appreciate your reply!

How’d you get around installing Linux or in fact, any type of non-Windows OS on the Alienware laptop? Surely they do not support the use of Linux and they actively discourage it right?

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I mean, an Alienware laptop is effectively just a Dell with copious RGB attached, it’s just a sub-brand of Dell. Should run linux just fine (assuming you install the nvidia drivers) and there have been projects in the past to even get the RGB controllable from within linux

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Good News, I think doing this manually is or soon will be unnecessary:

Starting with version 121, Firefox defaults to Wayland instead of XWayland and does not require any configuration. Older versions of Firefox support opting into Wayland mode via an environment variable($ MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 firefox

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Laptop HP dont know model number but it is i5 8th gen

OS - Xubuntu

Mostly prefer native deb/appimages packages over snap or flatpak

Use firefox only

edge for microsoft reward purpose only

other thing i use adguard home for dns available on snapstore

keepass appimage

ente auth for 2fa authenticator

freetube as youtube client

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  1. Desktop, built it myself around 2018 for gaming. If your going to game on a PC there is a lot more bang for your buck building it yourself.
  2. Windows 10 IOT - mostly out of convenience. My home PC is typically used for gaming, and windows is still king when it comes to that. Most of my professional work is done on a work laptop.
  3. Putty (for pi-hole), Plex Media Server (and the -arr suite of tools for automation), Bitwarden.
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It is a PWA, right?

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Yes on desktop for mobile there app is available as I can run it from browser so I prefer this over offline one

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This topic has a lot of potential to help a lot of people, perhaps we could create a resource which helps people decide computer hardware and software to create a ‘setup’ with the best combination of energy and cost efficiency (which ties in with durability), practicality (simple user interface, which ties in with productivity), security and privacy. In essence, the ultimate balance of all of these features, with minimal, though necessary compromises. This would probably entail some Laptop + ‘lightweight’ Linux distro. Yes, this is slightly off topic, but in actuality it is not, productivity enables us to create better privacy resources, and energy efficiency helps minimise environmental impacts, with the environment being the reason we are alive (really we are apart of it not distinct from it), obviously, without being alive privacy wouldn’t exist.

Edit: all of the things I was talking about are interrelated, which highlights the interconnectedness of the universe, for example having software automate the selection process for a user based on their unique needs, and having optimal sleep settings enforced would contribute to huge energy savings, as well as privacy ones, by having settings automatically defaulted to privacy respecting ones. Also, greater knowledge of what each settings does would teach users of the implications of these settings before turning them on. Maybe these things currently do not exist together in an easily applicable way, but one day they might.

If anyone knows of any such resources, please be my friend and link them here.

The Macbook appears to have a good balance of all the criteria I listed. I have also heard great things about Dell and Lenovo thinkpads.

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now there is ente auth app for linux

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interested in what’s your usecase for santa?

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it allows for more user controlled Binary Authorization | Santa and also to block system bloatware like Siri.

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My Graphene OS setup right now:

though s/mull/fennec

https://empiresec.co/setups/android/

The macbook setup I’d share soon.

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Currently, I’m really liking the concept of an “atomic” distro. Specifically, I’m daily driving different images from the “Universal Blue” Project, which is based on Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite.

Bazzite on my gaming pc
Bluefin DX on my dev pc
Aurora on my laptop (although I rarely use it)

I used to run Qubes OS for a while, but it wore me out eventually.

If at some point in the future I need to use and move around my laptop more regularly, I’m probably going to install Qubes or Secureblue to it.

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this thread has an extreme lack of picssssss