What hostnames do people use? I’m tired of (and bad at) naming all my devices, I just tend to leave default as op, at least I can tell them apart easily
I have NekkoDesktop, NekkoLaptop, NekkoLaptopJr (new laptop) and NekkoServer :) (Phones are just Nekko <Release> with release being S9 and S21 for Samsung or G6 for LG)
For my work-related VMs, raid bosses. It makes it easy to spot my VMs because nobody sane would name them stuff like Erichthonios or Hippokampos. Unfortunately I had to draw the line at 724P-Operated Superior Flight Unit A-lpha.
For my home server VMs/CTs, I use the names of the gods - Byregot, Rhalgr, Azeyma, etc. and Eulogia for Proxmox itself.
my old desktop was named George, inspired by the word “GeForce” on the gpu. my new one is Leo, mostly because I just like that name, but also because it’s my first desktop built for linux. My first server was Bertha bc its physical size was a lot bigger than I expected and I had to find a new place to store it, and my newest server is even bigger so I named it Marge. My clunky old 16" laptop from 2010 is named Mondo.
What hostnames do people use? I’m tired of (and bad at) naming all my devices, I just tend to leave default as op, at least I can tell them apart easily
I have
NekkoDesktop
,NekkoLaptop
,NekkoLaptopJr
(new laptop) andNekkoServer
:) (Phones are justNekko <Release>
with release being S9 and S21 for Samsung or G6 for LG)I do it similarly
I use names from FFXIV.
For my work-related VMs, raid bosses. It makes it easy to spot my VMs because nobody sane would name them stuff like Erichthonios or Hippokampos. Unfortunately I had to draw the line at 724P-Operated Superior Flight Unit A-lpha.
For my home server VMs/CTs, I use the names of the gods - Byregot, Rhalgr, Azeyma, etc. and Eulogia for Proxmox itself.
You could also name them so everyone can identify what they are at a glance instead.
desktop, laptop, server. Lame but always clear.
i use a surface pro 6, so i use “surface” as my hostname
it was running arch+gnome
i tried endeavouros+kde (because i used to use the sway version of it on my dell and liked it) but didn’t like it
now it’s running arch+kde
I name them after fictional robots/AI
PC is Deep Thought, laptop is Wheatley, phone K9 in etc
Culture ship names. https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_spacecraft
I go with a UUID so I never duplicate. 🤪
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
my old desktop was named George, inspired by the word “GeForce” on the gpu. my new one is Leo, mostly because I just like that name, but also because it’s my first desktop built for linux. My first server was Bertha bc its physical size was a lot bigger than I expected and I had to find a new place to store it, and my newest server is even bigger so I named it Marge. My clunky old 16" laptop from 2010 is named Mondo.
Moons of Jupiter.
My PC is just arch Linux and my laptop is computer
PC. Privacy reasons
I use LoL champs, there’s at least one for every letter of the alphabet
Similar to other people:
laptop-56
phone-56
server-56 (or the actual domain name…)
…palmtop-56 (I’m not sure if that’s actually possible)
I like the look of all-lowercase hyphenated words. And “56” is a conveniently short identifier I use for myself.
charlemagne
for my desktop, andinvictus
for my laptop - no particular theme, just liked the names lolMy servers however previously used gods from Greek mythology though, as controversial as that apparently was (?)…
(To be fair, I think the controversy was regarding doing that in a professional / enterprise environment of which I am definitely not in)