Spoiler: I ended up installing and using Arch Linux again
So, after some months away from home, I had the possibility to install GNU Guix system on the new machine. Since I was using the openSUSE live USB with persistence as daily driver on the new PC and I had everything already configured there, I decided to install GNU Guix (the package manager) in openSUSE, and then install GNU Guix System (the distro) using the package manager.
The components of the new machine arrived on 22nd December 2021. This post is about the unboxing, mounting and first impressions of the mini PC.
Unboxing All the components arrived inside the same box.
The box containing all the components
The ASRock DeskMini X300 package contained also a CPU cooler, besides the barebone mini PC and power supply.
Content of the DeskMini X300 package
My current laptop is a Lenovo Ideapad 5-15ARE05. It is equipped with an AMD Ryzen 5 4500U processor, 16 GB of RAM, 512 GB SSD. It was my first computer with an Ryzen processor and it works very well, it’s hard to find any defects in it. It was also very cheap (~570 € without OS) when I bought it in spring 2020.
The laptop now has Arch Linux in dual boot with Windows 10, that I sadly use for work.
Hello, World!
I’m Marco and this is my new (and also the first) blog! I tried, more than once, to start blogs in the past, but I never found the motivations, or maybe contents themselves. This time I’ve got something to write about and I’ll do my best to be constant (famous last words 😅).
So, the main topic of this blog will be my new adventure in GNU/Linux. I’m not new to the GNU/Linux world, I’ve been using it from 2010 if I remember well.