urgent advice needed for 100% Ubuntu-compatible desktop

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 11:25:42 +0200, Xen wrote:
>SSDs are not good for repeated, sequential writing. I would still 
>suggest for data use a HDD, but that's up to you.

I switched to internal SSDs. Even if they shouldn't last for long,
mine were inexpensive and I backup all data (and Linux installs) to
external HDDs.

On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 12:13:13 +0200, Xen wrote:
>I suggest a core i5 7500 @ 4x 3.4 GHz 65W on socket 1151 as something
>to look at.

The G1840 consumes 53 W and is inexpensive. However, I can't comment on
the OPs work flow in regards to the required horse power.

FWIW while my machine is Ubuntu compatible, on Arch as well as Ubuntu
I run openbox, but by default the Tails live media does run GNOME and I
don't experience performance issues. Just the idiotic animations slow
down the work flow. The animations are slow, because the GNOME folks
want that they are visible. If they would be fast, nobody could see
them. IOW it's not a hardware issue, it's wanted by the software. Let
alone that they fake a touch screen, to get rid of the
screensaver/screen blanking idle thingy, it's required to wipe with the
mouse pointer.