CONCLUSION (for now) of: urgent shopping advice for NUC-like desktop

[Marco Fioretti]

On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 13:11, Marco Fioretti  wrote:
Hello list.
Last month I said to myself "after the summer, I must really buy a new desktop, because this one, thanks to Linux, has been running for so many years that it may break at every moment". My desktop must have heard me, because something inside died this morning, and now it won't start.
No data were lost, but now I must order a new desktop as below asap, to meet some deadlines and not lose any vacation day! 
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Size/form factor: NUC-like, due to change in furniture next month, this thing can only stay attached behind a monitor, or in my lap.
Hello all,
it soon turned out that the best if not only compromise between the all advice received and my own constraints, especially the two above, was a DILC Nuc "10th gen i5-10210U 4.20 ghz Ram 16gb, M2 Ssd 256 gb", at 639 EUR. I got it two days ago, installed Ubuntu 21.04, restored my $HOME from backups without problems worth mentioning, and thanks to that I am almost done with all the work that was due this week.
The next, not urgent things to fix or know, on which feedback is still welcome, will be:
1) check out monitor connectivity. I have a good monitor with VGA and DVI ports, which I am not replacing until it breaks. I installed and am working with a VGA cable plus HDMI adapter, because those were the only option available when the computer arrived. Works well, but since this morning I recovered an HDMI cable and a HDMI/DVI adapter, I tried to switch to them, assuming that "all digital would be better than digital to analog". But the monitor says "NO signal at all, sorry". So now I have to be sure if its DVI port is broken, which almost certainly is the case I fear, or if it is some option to reconfigure in/from Ubuntu or BIOS??? Thoughts?
2) If everything goes as planned from now on, sometimes in September I will need to buy hardware to plug between that computer and both a VHS player and a mini-DV camcorder that we still have in the closet, to finally digitize many hours of family videos in both formats, for later editing and sharing with family. Advice on what to buy is NOT urgent, but most welcome, probably off list because not Ubuntu-specific, right?
3) buy more RAM, if/when needed, e.g. when actually editing that video, for everything I am doing now 16GB is surely enough.
Thanks again, everybody,
Marco
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