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I've been using an AMD Ryzen (32Gb, R1606G Zen processor with 2 cores and 4 threads @ 2.6 GHz (up to 3.5 GHz)) based ATARI VCS mini PC/console since May, 2021 as my daily driver. That means 24/7, on MX with liquorix kernel.
Never ever had a glitch, malfunction, crash, freeze you name it! The system is running off of a periodically remastered, customized
USB pendrive. The only downside of my setup is the boringly uneventful operation, thanks due to the stability of MX linux and the integrity of the hardware. The system is used for internet browsing, multimedia and serves as a VPN gateway for the laptops and mobile phones at home. To sum it up, MX and Ryzen are a perfect match in my experience.

Thanks for all the responses. Past & Current. About what I expected, just wanted to hear it from others.
Other than Apple chips; Linux seems to run on everything?

Not sure Richard if MX can/will run on everything but I'd say from my experience a wide range of systems both Intel and AMD and from low (even by today's standards, very low) specifications to high end. I don't think you will have any real issues running a platform such that you've described. Hope you get it set up nicely.

At the moment, I had to give up building my own PC, I was about to buy the necessary components during the Black Friday I only lacked the box, which I could not find, this forced to start a new exhaustive product research, My surprise was that according to the comments, this box did not come equipped with the fans, which led me to another investigation, contributing an extra cost, nor the CPU came equipped with fan. Also, during these 2 weeks Firefox and Add blockers uses an attack, slowing down the YouTube videos, it has been terrible to investigate the Hardware options that I needed in these conditions. In such a way that just the last day of the Black Friday already at night, I had to decide whether to buy the components, and then the box, and the fans somewhere else, I decided not to do it at the end, I spent the date of the promotion, The next day the complete set had expected a slight price increase of about $50. I have also seen that you have to analyze the historical price of a product, to know the trend.


Apart from that I have been thinking that it is crazy to put another box of PC in my room, especially I do not want my computer to occupy space, I do not want it to have lights, and what the least I want is that it is another noisy box accumulating dust in the floor.

I use this iMac 10.1 that my brother was going to discard for that of the DRM macOS. Fortunately I have rescued it with MXFB, but with a hard Pentium core duo, it is not enough. From this iMac, I have learned the good of the AIO format. After investigating, I have seen that many PC AIO for sale are reconditioned, so this option deems. Nor do I want OEM incompatible with Linux.


A radical format option that I have seen, would be to use GPD Wind Max 2 Ryzen, which is shown on its website as compatible with Linux MX, the ideal would be to use the IMAC as an auxiliary monitor, since it has good speakers, also connect a Second LG monitor with DVI output, but this is the part that worries me the most, since I don't know the new video connectors.

That's an interesting journey you've described Amiga-MX.
If you are a fan of all in ones perhaps you might like to check out the small form products from such groups as Beelink and Intel NUC. The main drawback of such smaller systems would appear to be their comparative sparcity of ports and that may become a future issue depending on your computing needs.
This all said, when Intel NUC first came on the scene, I helped a friend with it and we put Linux Lite on it and it's worked for him ever since. The thing that struck me about the NUC then (and now really) is how such small format units can pack so much of a punch and they do lend credence to the saying "boxing above its weight".
As far as them being noisy I can only say they are very quiet in operation and certainly not dust catchers.