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Astylos

The oldest, and most powerful computer of the fleet.
Here, most of the work on ZHS is performed.
Being born into this world with a Windows 10 installation,
Astylos has long since become a prime example of the power of NixOS.

Hardware

  • CPU: Intel Core i3-6100 (4× 3.7 GHz)

  • GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti

  • RAM: 2× G-Skill F4-2666C19S-32GNT (2× 32 GB @ 2133 MHz)

  • SSD: Samsung SSD 870 EVO (1 TB)

Configuration

OS history

  • Windows 10

  • …with various Linux VMs

  • for a short time, W10 & openSUSE in a dualboot

  • …the latter of which then got replaced with Arch, based on LARBS

  • W10 was removed

  • Arch was briefly switched to Artix with runit as init system

  • …then back to Arch, still keeping runit (runit-conversion was created to help with this)

  • 2021-02-25: Creation of a new dotfile repo, which was independent of LARBS

  • 2022-12-22: development of the Arch dotfiles stopped, preparations for a switch to NixOS began

  • 2023-02-08: first commit on the new NixOS branch

  • 2024-07-21: full switch to NixOS