Simon WolfI’ve been using NUCs for around four years now and they are perfect for my sort of computing and coding so this is sad news. I hope that mini PCs continue to thrive as a thing despite this.
James Lavin@simon I considered NUCs but went with Asus PNs instead, partly because I like AMD and partly because I sometimes found them on sale for a very fair price. They come with either Intel or AMD (https://www.asus.com/displays-desktops/mini-pcs/all-series/). I run Ubuntu on mine and have been perfectly happy with them (aside from now regretting choosing Ubuntu after reading https://www.webpronews.com/ubuntu-23-10s-app-store-will-block-deb-files-when-a-snap-is-available/)
@lavin I keep meaning to try an AMD machine but my last NUC died on a Sunday and I managed to order a replacement and have it shipped on the Monday for delivery on the Tuesday so my main priority was availability.
I used Ubuntu for the first couple of years after switching to Linux from macOS but then moved to NixOS about a year ago. It’s veey good but not always as simple as Ubuntu.
@simon I totally understand replacing like with like. I sleep better at night having several of the same hardware in case any die. And I've stuck with Ubuntu for MANY years because it's simplest when everything is the same. But Linux distros seem incredibly flaky & unreliable now. I'm bitter because I'm old enough to remember the sudden death of Red Hat Linux... and now CentOS. I just want stability! Just saw this, which makes me feel my next distro may be SUSE: https://www.suse.com/news/SUSE-Preserves-Choice-in-Enterprise-Linux/
@lavin Before settling on NixOS I was really tempted by Fedora because Ubuntu got me into GNOME in a big way and it seemed like the natural move.
If I remember correctly, I tried SUSE around 2002 when I briefly dabbled with Linux (those heady days or ordering distro DVDs) and it is great that it is still around.