[OT] The coolest (literally) desktop machine I've ever had

[Chris via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 13 August 2016 at 14:52:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 08/13/2016 08:37 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 19:13:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
>> wrote:
>>> googled for the better part of an afternoon for "fanless 
>>> desktop" and
>>> it turns out it's much harder to find one than I'd
>>
>> Quiet doesn't necessarily mean fanless. I have a Corsair H100i 
>> with
>> Noctua fans, and you can barely tell it's on.
>>
>>> I've put Linux Mint on it (which is what they recommend)
>>
>> Friends don't let friends use Linux Mint:
>>
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/4v116g/can_we_stop_recommending_linux_mint/
>>
>>
>> https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/
>>
>> Not mentioned above: Linux Mint's upgrade policy is "format and
>> reinstall". Their update policy is also "If it ain't broke, 
>> don't try to
>> fix it". No wonder they have internal security issues.
>
> Good to know, thanks. So what should I use then? -- Andrei

At home I use Manjaro (https://manjaro.org/) and am quite happy 
with it (ArchLinux based, rolling release). They have various 
official desktops (I use XFCE), Cinnamon is available as a 
community edition:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/manjarolinux/files/community/

Being ArchLinux based, it's "cutting edge" most of the time, 
unlike Ubuntu.