How do *you* use Fedora?

DJ Delorie dj at redhat.com
Tue Apr 2 20:25:44 UTC 2013


I'm WAY out on the bell curve...

I have two PCs.  One of them, the one I sit in front of, has four
monitors (on one Radeon HD card), video capture and playback, digital
and analog audio (digital goes to a surround system receiver, analog
to gaming headphones), an SSD plus a dual-3Tb raid1 all in a hot-swap
bay, and a bunch of other stuff (mostly usb - lab equipment, scanner,
two android devices, etc).  It's a six-core i7 with 24 GB of RAM, and
typically about half the RAM is in active use (the rest is for cache).
I have some guest OSs but don't run them unless I need to, but the PC
itself is up 24/7.

I run fvwm2 across all monitors as one giant screen (the main screen
is not the leftmost screen, and eventually won't be the topmost one
either), and assign two virtual desktops to the local PC.  I tried
gaming under a composited desktop but the FPS dropped so compositing
was dropped too.

The other two virtual desktops are assigned to my other PC, which sits
in the basement and only talks over X and ssh.

I do *not* use any ramdisks or tmpfs.  I also remove abrt as it takes
too long to run if anything crashes (they tend to be BIG crashes).

This setup is used for software development, gaming, EDA, email (10
mailboxes to monitor), web, and as a home (er, office :) theater.


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