What does your desk look like?
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Only took most of the weekend, but finally finished rearranging the office.
To the left, below the desk, is the R620 I have for a home lab box right now. On top is the work computer/phone on a sit/stand desk. To the right of that is the small staging area for equipment heading for clients. Back corner is the printer, and then the main desk is all my stuff.
Moved the main desk, printer, and modified the small desk with a 1u rack mount underneath. In addition to taking it all apart and putting back together.
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New employee started yesterday. Her new desk with Fedora and a Fanvil X4U
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@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
New employee started yesterday. Her new desk with Fedora and a Fanvil X4U
What Desktop Environment is that?
Besides what comes with Fedora, what other additional software do you normally install for new hires? -
@black3dynamite said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
New employee started yesterday. Her new desk with Fedora and a Fanvil X4U
What Desktop Environment is that?
Besides what comes with Fedora, what other additional software do you normally install for new hires?Looks like Cinnamon
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@travisdh1 said in What does your desk look like?:
@black3dynamite said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
New employee started yesterday. Her new desk with Fedora and a Fanvil X4U
What Desktop Environment is that?
Besides what comes with Fedora, what other additional software do you normally install for new hires?Looks like Cinnamon
Oh! So that’s what Cinnamon looks like without that Linux Mint Cinnamon flavor?
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@black3dynamite said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
New employee started yesterday. Her new desk with Fedora and a Fanvil X4U
What Desktop Environment is that?
Besides what comes with Fedora, what other additional software do you normally install for new hires?Yeah, straight Cinnamon.
Pretty much nothing. We do add Chrome. LibreOffice is there by default. Nextcloud has a desktop connector. Our Zoho tools are web based. Some users get Linphone but this one has a deskphone.
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@black3dynamite said in What does your desk look like?:
@travisdh1 said in What does your desk look like?:
@black3dynamite said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
New employee started yesterday. Her new desk with Fedora and a Fanvil X4U
What Desktop Environment is that?
Besides what comes with Fedora, what other additional software do you normally install for new hires?Looks like Cinnamon
Oh! So that’s what Cinnamon looks like without that Linux Mint Cinnamon flavor?
Yup
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@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
@black3dynamite said in What does your desk look like?:
@travisdh1 said in What does your desk look like?:
@black3dynamite said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
New employee started yesterday. Her new desk with Fedora and a Fanvil X4U
What Desktop Environment is that?
Besides what comes with Fedora, what other additional software do you normally install for new hires?Looks like Cinnamon
Oh! So that’s what Cinnamon looks like without that Linux Mint Cinnamon flavor?
Yup
No raspberry pi this time around?
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@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
New employee started yesterday. Her new desk with Fedora and a Fanvil X4U
WTF with all the icons on the desktop. just WTF....
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Currently a Yealink T54W, Fanvil X4U, Yealink T42G
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@Pete-S said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
@black3dynamite said in What does your desk look like?:
@travisdh1 said in What does your desk look like?:
@black3dynamite said in What does your desk look like?:
@scottalanmiller said in What does your desk look like?:
New employee started yesterday. Her new desk with Fedora and a Fanvil X4U
What Desktop Environment is that?
Besides what comes with Fedora, what other additional software do you normally install for new hires?Looks like Cinnamon
Oh! So that’s what Cinnamon looks like without that Linux Mint Cinnamon flavor?
Yup
No raspberry pi this time around?
Didn't need a new computer for this user, so they got a recommissioned one. If we are buying new, definitely RP4.
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Reinstalled with Pop_OS
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I just can't imagine using a RP4 for a desktop. Seems like you would spend too much time waiting for things to load and get frustrated. I have spent some time on the one my son has. No way I could do it. Not saying it isn't possible. Just not for me. Do you deploy RP4 for "power users"?
Also, does the micro SD wear out faster from continued read/writes?
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@brandon220 said in What does your desk look like?:
I just can't imagine using a RP4 for a desktop. Seems like you would spend too much time waiting for things to load and get frustrated. I have spent some time on the one my son has. No way I could do it. Not saying it isn't possible. Just not for me. Do you deploy RP4 for "power users"?
Also, does the micro SD wear out faster from continued read/writes?
I’m pretty certain with the rPi4, you can used conventional SSD and even M.2 drives over the mSD.
Also, for most office apps and standard use, the rPi4 has plenty of power.
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@brandon220 said in What does your desk look like?:
I just can't imagine using a RP4 for a desktop. Seems like you would spend too much time waiting for things to load and get frustrated. I have spent some time on the one my son has. No way I could do it. Not saying it isn't possible. Just not for me. Do you deploy RP4 for "power users"?
Also, does the micro SD wear out faster from continued read/writes?
I have an RPI4 4GB and it's way to slow for me as well. I revisited a couple of weeks ago and put the latest Raspberry Pi OS on it. For kids and casual users it's workable.
The biggest problem for me though is that you can't get the full linux experience on it. It wont run regular ARM OS like debian, ubuntu, you name it. It needs custom compiled kernels, binary blobs and special tweaks.
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@brandon220 said in What does your desk look like?:
Seems like you would spend too much time waiting for things to load and get frustrated.
Not at all, it's perfectly fast. I find it a very comfortable desktop experience.
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@brandon220 said in What does your desk look like?:
Do you deploy RP4 for "power users"?
haven't yet, but will be. There's no noticeable speed difference in usage for IT workers. Wouldn't deploy it for people doing like video editing or something like that. But IT doesn't do that stuff, everything we do in IT we can't tell a speed difference.
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@brandon220 said in What does your desk look like?:
Also, does the micro SD wear out faster from continued read/writes?
Of course, that's why you use a high speed SSD like you would for any desktop, of course you don't use the SD card for your storage, lol. That wouldn't work well.
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@gjacobse said in What does your desk look like?:
I’m pretty certain with the rPi4, you can used conventional SSD and even M.2 drives over the mSD.
SSD yes, M2 no. Rock Pi and Pine64 Pro have the M2 interface as their killer feature.
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@Pete-S said in What does your desk look like?:
I have an RPI4 4GB and it's way to slow for me as well. I revisited a couple of weeks ago and put the latest Raspberry Pi OS on it.
Have you updated the firmware? The speed is totally different between out of the box and flashed.
