Mrs. vallor's Linux workstation is online

Set up the Mrs.' workstation yesterday.  We have both machines
(Mac Studio, and this one) set up on her desk in her office.
Installed Mint 22.1 and gave her cairo-dock with the "3d"
effect so she wouldn't feel out-of-place.  HOTAS supported
without incident.

14 cores w/ht for 28 threads, 32G of RAM.

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700F

Been reading about this processor.  It has 8 "performance"
cores and 12 "efficiency" cores.  Interesting.

The GPU reports it is a:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER (AD104-A)

Form factor: ITX.

It was making a buzzing sound while running, so I opened
the case -- and found it full of styrofoam packing materials,
mostly to hold the GPU steady while shipping.  So once that was
removed, it is silent.  Surprised it ran at all with all the airflow
blocked. 🤷‍♂️️

Note that the wifi drivers did _not_ work with stock Mint 21.3, you have
to use 22.1 to get the newer kernel that supports the chip.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0D2M48B5Q

# uname -a
Linux buzz 6.8.0-51-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Dec  5
13:09:44 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have yet to build Linux on it yet, was going to try to keep it
close to "stock" ... but the 6.13 kernel has improvements to the
wifi drivers, so I'll have to think about that.

NVIDIA driver version 550.142.

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