I ended up using Manjaro mainly because the arch installer was just a bit too much to figure out for me. Yeah, definitely a bit of a luxury, but worth it for us. It's hard enough to keep up with normal chores.) The standby generator does a weekly test, so we know whether it's actually working or not. (I have a 2 year old at home and time is just absolutely slipping by. There's also the issue of maintenance, which I'm. Otherwise I'll be playing the, "is it really worth going out in the snow, lugging out a generator and getting it running if the outage is just an hour?" game. But it's super nice having it kick on when we get an outage. So powering those two things (and our upright freezer) would need a pretty small power source. And as you say, fridges don't use much power. The hot tub really just needs a small space heater to be put inside the cabinet to prevent the pipes from freezing. A low probability event, but one that was conceivable.īoth the fridge and the hot tub problems can indeed be resolved with something less than our 16kW generac.
We were worried about a multi-day outage resulting in the tub freezing in the winter. We also have a hot tub and we're in New England. (And we were okay to sacrifice a bit on capacity too.) We purchased that after getting the generator, so the advantage of it keeping stuff frozen longer was less important to us than the convenience of easier access.
I think that stuff spoiled once during a particularly long outage. Yeah, our fridge has a top loading freezer. So far the only problem I've had with that whole laptop is a Windows update breaking the bootloader and making Linux temporarily inaccessible. I'd have been okay with it installing to only support the integrated GPU, but it supports both and has a menu option for every app to launch it on the dedicated GPU. Several Linux distros didn't install correctly at the time I bought it, but Ubuntu did. It uses an AMD mobile processor with integrated graphics and an NVidia discrete GPU. I've been using almost exclusively ATI/AMD GPUs since the Mach32 days, but for Windows gaming systems sometimes NVidia has the performance crown for months or years at a time with reasonable stability. I actually end up playing just about any game that plays on Linux on one of my Linux machines, and only boot the Windows system when wanting to play an exclusive title or occasionally just to do OS updates to be ready to play later. I use NVidia on my single Windows gaming system, but every Linux desktop system around here has AMD.
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